Police inward the Netherlands conduct keep arrested a minute teenager inward relation to the pro-WikiLeaks distributed denial-of-service attacks seen before this week.
The arrest of the 19-year-old homo follows Friday's attacks on websites belonging to Dutch Police as well as national prosecutor's office, which were themselves widely seen every bit retaliation against the apprehension the twenty-four hours before of a 16-year-old Dutch man child alleged to conduct keep participated inward "Anonymous" pro-WikiLeaks attacks against a publish of websites, including MasterCard as well as PayPal.
Prosecutors claim that the 19-year-old, from Hoogezand-Sappemeer, inward the due north eastward of the Netherlands, flooded the prosecutor's website alongside cyberspace traffic:
"From behind his computer, the homo used hacker software to alluvion the website of the prosecutor’s role alongside every bit much digital traffic every bit possible. Investigations past times the National Police Services Agency showed that the man, who was active nether the cyberspace nickname Awinee, urged other cyberspace users to participate inward the attack."
However, it is reported that the DDoS assail software beingness used did non enshroud the IP address of the reckoner involved, making it slow for high-tech offense cops to position where the assail was coming from.
That's a pretty dizzy error to brand if you're going to assail the website of your country's national prosecutor.
Who is "Awinee"? Well, a quick search on Google institute a gaming website of a guy who lives inward Hoogezand-Sappemeer, is nineteen years old, as well as uses the online nickname "Awinee", going past times the existent advert of Martijn Gonlag:
Of course, that may only hold upwardly coincidence. Wikipedia says 34,000 people alive inward the Hoogezand-Sappemeer municipality, as well as peradventure enough of the 19-year-olds at that spot job that online nickname.
Denial-of-service attacks are illegal inward many countries, as well as inward Holland tin consequence inward a maximum judgement of half dozen years inward jail.
Prosecutors claim that the homo also participated inward a DDoS assail against the website Moneybookers.com, which took the website offline for a menstruum of fourth dimension on Friday. Moneybookers.com terminated its human relationship alongside WikiLeaks inward August.
The ongoing saga of WikiLeaks is, of course, a controversial i that is generating potent emotions on both sides. Even if you lot experience strongly that WikiLeaks is beingness persecuted or abandoned past times online companies mean value really carefully before volunteering your PC as well as engaging inward a DDoS attack.
After all, it could hold upwardly that the law are knocking on your door next.
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