Security News > 2019 > January > Hacktivist Gets 10-Year Prison Sentence for DDoS Attack on Hospitals

2019-01-11 07:37
A 34-year-old man from Somerville, Massachusetts, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against two healthcare organizations in the United States. read more
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