{"id":3274,"date":"2016-09-12T09:19:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T13:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2016-09-12T09:19:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T13:19:36","slug":"2-israeli-teens-have-been-arrested-for-allegedly-running-a-huge-hacking-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/2016\/09\/12\/2-israeli-teens-have-been-arrested-for-allegedly-running-a-huge-hacking-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Israeli teens have been arrested for allegedly running a huge hacking tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of 18-year-old Israeli teens were arrested for operating a hacking tool, that created a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, and would flood sites with so much malicious internet traffic that they would crash.\u00a0 The teens were accused of running vDOS, a \u201cbooter\u201d service which allows people to pay to use it to attack other websites and services.\u00a0 The two were exploited when their own server was hacked, leaking their information.\u00a0 The pair refused to attack any Israeli-based sites.\u00a0 These \u201cbooters\u201d, allow people without any technical skills engage in DDoS attacks.\u00a0 This is fairly interesting, because now, if you have a grudge, you can pay to have someone cyber-attacked.\u00a0 These DDoS attacks were generally for ransom, and publications state, roughly $600,000 was earned by its operators.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/2-israeli-teens-arrested-ddos-booter-service-vdos-hacked-brian-krebs-2016-9\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/2-israeli-teens-arrested-ddos-booter-service-vdos-hacked-brian-krebs-2016-9<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of 18-year-old Israeli teens were arrested for operating a hacking tool, that created a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, and would flood sites with so much malicious internet traffic that they would crash.\u00a0 The teens were accused of running vDOS, a \u201cbooter\u201d service which allows people to pay to use it to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3363,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[715219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-03-it-administrative-controls","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3275,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions\/3275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}