Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
A man from Merseyside is awaiting sentencing after admitting to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) campaign which targeted public sector and business websites, potentially affecting vulnerable people, Computer Weekly has reported. Bootle man Ian Sullivan, aged 51, carried out the cyber attacks in 2013, leaving more than 300 websites inaccessible to users. The sites affected included websites providing support for children going through adoption and divorce proceedings, crime reporting sites, social housing organisations and multinational banks. DDoS attacks work by flooding a web server with data, making the website inaccessible. The websites in question were not hacked and no sensitive data was accessed, says Computer Weekly. Sullivan was apprehended in July 2013 following a joint investigation operation by the National Crime Agency’s (NCA) National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) and Titan, the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit. The Merseyside man was linked to the cyber crime via a Twitter handle which had referenced the attacks. Subsequent investigations found software on Sullivan’s computer which is designed to take websites offline, as well as documentation linking him to other campaigns and activity carried out by the hacking group Anonymous. Steven Pye, senior operations manager at the NCCU, said the NCA and […]
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