Mastercard problems

Fri Dec 10 18:34:03 UTC 2010

"Just a day after Dutch police arrested a 16-year-old boy in connection with Wikileaks-related denial-of-service attacks, 
websites belonging to the Netherlands computer crime cops and 
prosecutors have been struck with a similar assault."

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2010/12/10/dutch-police-website-attacked-after-arrests-of-suspected-hacker/

Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From:Michael Smith <msmith at internap.com>
To:andrew.wallace at rocketmail.com
Cc:nanog at nanog.org
Sent:Thursday, 9 December 2010, 23:16:22
Subject:Re: Mastercard problems

Exactly... Rounding up script kiddies one at a time is a pretty serious deterrent ;). I'm sure the bot-masters are quaking in their boots... :)

----- Original Message -----
From: andrew.wallace <andrew.wallace at rocketmail.com>
To: Michael Smith
Cc: nanog at nanog.org <nanog at nanog.org>
Sent: Thu Dec 09 18:14:16 2010
Subject: Re: Mastercard problems

It was a quick arrest wasn't it?

----- Original Message -----
From:Michael Smith <msmith at internap.com>
To:andrew.wallace <andrew.wallace at rocketmail.com>
Cc:
Sent:Thursday, 9 December 2010, 21:49:16
Subject:RE: Mastercard problems

1 down, 3896 to go... :)

-----Original Message-----
From: andrew.wallace [mailto:andrew.wallace at rocketmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 4:44 PM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: Mastercard problems

Dutch authorities have arrested a 16-year old "hacker" in connection with Mastercard.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20025215-281.html 

Andrew