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January 20, 2020

DDoS Mitigation Firm Founder Admits to DDoS

This post was originally published on this siteA Georgia man who co-founded a service designed to protect companies from crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has pleaded to paying a DDoS-for-hire service to launch attacks against others. Tucker Preston, 22, of Macon, Ga., pleaded guilty last week in a New Jersey court to one count of damaging protected computers by transmission of a program, code or command. DDoS attacks involve flooding a target Web site with so much junk Internet traffic that it can no longer accommodate legitimate visitors. Preston was featured in the 2016 KrebsOnSecurity story DDoS Mitigation Firm Has […]