Man jailed for DDoS attack against Bill O’Reilly, Ann Coulter and Rudy Giuliani

Just because you don’t agree with someone’s political views isn’t a good reason to launch a distributed denial-of-service attack against them.

23-year-old Mitchell L Frost, of Bellevue, Ohio, has a long time to learn that lesson as he serves a 30 month prison sentence for a series of DDoS attacks he launched against the websites of high profile US right-wingers Bill O’Reilly, Ann Coulter and Rudy Giuliani.

Frost launched the attacks between August 2006 and March 2007, while he was a student at the University of Akron. According to reports, Frost used the university’s network to control a botnet, hijacking innocent users’ computers around the world, spread malware, stole data including usernames, passwords and credit card numbers as well as launching the DDoS attack.

The former student also admitted…

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