Benjamin Earnest Nichols, a 37-year-old man from Oklahoma City faces a 10-year federal prison sentence for launching a DDoS attack against the website owned by a security researcher.
Once relegated to Windows, the adware known as Pirrit has now been ported to work on the Mac OS X operating system, and this variant is more malicious than its predecessor ever was, according to the security firm Cybereason.
A hacker known as The Jester, whose site became a target of a DoS attack, claimed he rerouted the assault to strike Mossad, but it's his site that is currently down.
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