Hacker pleads guilty to scientology attack
Monday, October 20, 2008
A teenage hacker has pleaded guilty to federal charges relating to a distributed denial of service attack launched on servers belonging to the church of scientology.
New Jersey resident Dmitriy Guzner, 18, admitted his membership to online group known as Anonymous, which was responsible for a network security attack launched against the religious group's servers in January 2008.
Vnunet.com reports that they are also thought to be linked to the recent email security breach which targeted Sarah Palin's personal mail account.
The scientology attacks were described as a sophisticated co-ordinated effort, which included clogging networks with packets of data, as well as fax transmissions of black pieces of paper to use up toner.
So too, a number of phishing scams were launched against the group, which was founded by science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard.
After bypassing email security, Anonymous posted details of Palin's account activity on the web, leading to an investigation into whether the vice-presidential candidate had abused her powers as governor of Alaska. 
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