Politech: FC: More on Israeli teens accused of creating "Goner" worm

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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"Israeli cops nab teens suspected of creating 'Goner' worm"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02901.html

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Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 20:08:25 -0500
To: declan () well com
From: Brian McWilliams <brian () pc-radio com>
Subject: Re: FC: Israeli cops nab teens suspected of creating "Goner" worm

Hi Declan,

Kudos to the Israeli police for the arrest, but much of the investigative 
work appears to have been done by folks at DALnet:
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172821.html

The DALnet team also has shut down Goner's ability to function as a DDoS tool:

http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172814.html

Brian




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