NJ Teenager Guilty of Cyber Attack on Scientology Web Sites

By Alexander Toldt
14:07, October 18th 2008
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NJ Teenager Guilty of Cyber Attack on Scientology Web Sites

A New Jersey teenager will reportedly plead guilty to charges of carrying out DDOS attack on the Web sites of the Church of Scientology.

A DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack drives an excessive amount of traffic to a Web site making it temporarily inoperable. The same kind of cyber attacks were aimed at Georgia’s governmental Web sites a few weeks before Russia sent its troops in the country’s region called South Ossetia a few months ago.

Dmitriy Guzner, an 18-year-old youngster from Verona, New Jersey, admitted that he carried out the DDOS attacks on the Church of Scientology’s Web sites. Guzner claimed to be a member of Internet-based group called "Anonymous," a group which protests against the Church of Scientology’s policy of silencing its critics by dragging them into lengthy and expensive lawsuits.

Prosecutors said the 18-year-old overloaded the above-mentioned Web sites in order to render its servers almost inoperable. The attack was carried out in January. The church took measures quickly after the attacks and has deployed technology that helps protect against cyber attacks.

Guzner was charged on Friday and admitted to plea guilty in the near future, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. He faces up to 10 years in prison.

More exactly, Gruzner carried out the cyber attack on January 19 and managed to render the church’s Web sites temporarily inoperable. The hacker flooded the site with as much as 220M bps of traffic. The data was provided by the computer security firm Arbor Networks.

The “Anonymous” group isn’t at its first cyber attack. In September, the internet group claimed the cyber attack on Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account. Content of the governor’s e-mail was posted online.

David Kernell, 20, was charged for the attack.



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