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The Civil Guard attributed to a minor computer attack more than 75,000 computers
The youngest, a computerized self-taught, he managed to evade security protocols considered insurmountable
After controlling more than 75,000 computers spread around the Internet world, launched a massive attack over twelve million hits, a prestigious site for computer security
The Civil Guard, as part of Operation CANDELARIA, "developed in Catalonia, have been attributed to a minor residing in Tenerife, as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of damage to computer systems, having" infected "thousands of computers located in different countries, with the aim of dominating and launching massive attacks on certain websites, including personal challenge to demonstrate the vulnerability of those other websites.
The investigations were initiated following a complaint by the Administrator of the website in which he stated that his page had been canceled for several days following a massive increase of visitors, well above normal, and certainly caused by this intention, which is known as DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service).
The contents of this page, and the vast majority of people who work in it, programmers and system administrators are intended to help develop their knowledge and experience on network security in several areas, both private business.
From the investigations made, it appeared that a person using the network in the nick "n3ptun0" had developed a "virus" taking advantage of security flaws in the UDP protocol (one of the channels of information in the network), for infect PCs
Thus, real mastery of Internet hosts and initiate, when he decided, mass visits to selected pages.
Furthermore Site Administrator which filed the complaint, the Civil Guard was able to observe the attacks being carried out by the same procedure to other pages, mainly devoted to forums and game servers, called San Andreas ..
Infection of computers (Zombies):
The child hung a video on youtube with attractive phrases to capture the attention of the Internet, so getting the user and automatically download content was infected.
This virus had spread to the peculiarity through programs like Messenger so widespread, Fotolog, etc..
Once infected with the virus, the minor went to dominate the PC at will with the intention to make visits at the same time, the pages I wanted to attack, crashing the servers of the same.
One example was the page, which suffered in minutes over twelve million hits simultaneously, when the regular average hovered about a hundred thousand.
Through this operation had succeeded in controlling more than 75,000 computers
The alleged perpetrator of these attacks, a child under 16 years who lacked any academic training in this specialty has been developing their knowledge through 13 years, entirely self-taught individual and ..
The child was transferred to the Juvenile Prosecutor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
For more information, please contact the Office Peripheral Communication (OPC) of the Civil Guard in Barcelona, telephone 93 476 60 81 and 93 476 60 91.
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