N_burnsy writes "Article profiles several youthful hackers, some still serving prison time, some free, who have been caught indulging in some fairly serious cybercrime. Looks at their crimes and the lessons they have (or have not yet) learned.
Starting with Farid "Diab10" Essebar, currently a guest of the Moroccan prison system, who wrote and distributed the Mytob, Rbot, and Zotob botnet Trojans. There's Ivan Maksakov, Alexander Petrov, and Denis Stepanov, all guests of the Russian penal system, sentenced to eight years at hard labor for creating a botnet to engage in DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks to blackmail online gambling sites based in the UK, threatening to take the sites down during major sporting events. Then there's Shawn Nematbakhsh who was a little too eager to prove a point about the electronic balloting system that the University of California employed to hold student council elections, by writing a script that cast 800 votes for a fictitious candidate named American Ninja. There is Robert Moore, who Federal agents claim was involved in defrauding at least 15 VoIP phone companies to the tune of more than US$300,000 each in broadband service charges by hacking into the VoIP companies' networks and then reselling stolen phone call minutes at a deep discount.
And finally there is "Helgi B", a 13-year-old sociopathic script kiddie who has already learned the fine art of theft of online account information through social engineering." Link to Original Source
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I seriously dont get why some of them are in jail, just force them to repay the company and kick them of the internet. I mean using ciscos default password barely seams worth a years jailtime
Why are they in jail (Score:1)