The newspaper "' Sweep ' said:" I give you 5 minutes, do not give me the words you will die! " Last December 5, SINA staff Mr. Zhao received such a chat record. 5 minutes later, the site, such as Beijing, many UT servers were suddenly attacked by massive information, in the last 500 minutes can not provide users with services. Yesterday, Zhang, who made the hacking attack on Sina, was tried in the Haidian court.
It is alleged that December 4, 2007 to January 8, 2008, Zhang through the denial of service attacks on the Sina UT server attack, resulting in Sina Beijing, Tianjin, Guangzhou and other land of UT server total congestion, the loss reached nearly 500,000 yuan. Prosecutors believe that Zhang constitute a crime of destroying computer information systems.
Zhang admitted his attack on Sina in court, but said the attack was not for 500 minutes. Zhang said that at the end of 2007, he found his UT number on the internet was stolen, so to Sina customer service call, let customer service staff to help find. But Sina customer service to Zhang's request is not active, this makes Zhang very angry. So he threatened Sina ut staff in the chat room that he would launch an attack on Sina if Sina did not give him 5 "8" and 5 "9" UT auspicious numbers. According to Zhang, in order to attack Sina, he deliberately spent 500 yuan, bought a few "chickens" from a network dealer, and rented a server. Sina did not meet its two "auspicious number", the launch of the Sina UT server attack.
According to Sina staff said, in the first UT server was paralyzed after the attack, Sina staff has given the Zhang two "auspicious number", hope he will not attack Sina's UT server, but Zhang this January 8 again attacked Sina's UT server, and openly admitted that he hacked Sina. January 16, 2008, the 33-Year-old Zhang in his Dalian home was captured by police officers.
To see another related news: in order to chat the number of channels, Zhang bought "chicken" virus attack Sina network, resulting in network paralysis more than 500 minutes, Sina was forced to agree to its request to give a good number. Yesterday, Zhang on suspicion of destroying the computer Information System crime station in the dock of Haidian court. Sina has proposed 570,000 yuan of incidental civil compensation request.
Zhang is Liaoning Dalian people, after high school has been no formal work. When taken to court, he stood habitually on his legs and was corrected by the judge. Prosecutors charged that from December 4 to January 8 last year, Zhang to the Sina Network Technology (China) Co., Ltd., located in Haiding District, the UT Web server attack, resulting in the company located in Guangzhou, Tianjin, Beijing and other fields of the UT server completely blocked, unable to provide network services, total time up to more than 500 minutes. After the appraisal, the Zhang's behavior caused the economic loss to reach 484,200 yuan.
"I didn't attack that long. After listening to the indictment, Zhang said that the time of each attack was about two or three minutes, between the interval, the total effective attack time "is less than 100 minutes." In addition, he attacked the same time, there are many other hackers to attack Sina, so he said the prosecution's alleged economic losses are not entirely their own cause. In this regard, Sina believes that the Zhang attack caused a complete server congestion, affecting the blog, advertising page open, so the economic losses should be based on the total attack time.
The case was not pronounced in court.
noun explanation
"Broiler" is a Trojan virus or left the back door, can be remote control of the computer. Attackers can remotely manipulate a number of "chickens" at the same time and send traffic to the target, blocking it.
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