Security News > 2018 > December > California Man Gets 26-Month Prison Sentence for DDoS Attacks

2018-12-07 16:25
The U.S. Department of Justice announced this week that a 44-year-old man from California has been sentenced to 26 months in prison for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on two popular astronomy websites. read more
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