[plug] International student w/ DDoS and social engineering history

[Phillip Kilby]

Yeah its true that he will need to tidy up his act. I feel that other
linux users get a bad reputation just because of the small minority of
a nasty few. Probably why centerlink are such a pain, because of the
people that spoil it for everyone else. =( I don't want to stay
unemployed forever...

Phillip.

On 7/5/05, hooker at iinet.net.au <hooker at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Quoting Bob Linus <bob0linus at gmail.com>:
> > When the guy was shelling out $60 for a remote server in the US, which
> > he said was through a paypal and a fake physical ID, 200GB throughput
> > / month running full tilt for DDoSes (user names "evil" and "chaos")
> > -- I don't know.   I felt sorry for the guy since he had only 2
> > classes before finishing uni, which I made clear to him.  So long as
> > he cleaned up.
> >
> > He's a practiced social engineer and a pretty good liar.   I don't
> > know if I gave him enough to think about by describing his activity
> > and one of the spybot viruses in detail back to him.  Pretty cocky to
> > store it on our ADSL account.
> >
> > *sigh*  I hope he cleans up, and I fear how he will be taken in the
> > workplace in Perth/Freo since IT guys don't seem as common for a city
> > like this.  I don't see him as an administrator that would treat
> > sensitive information as sensitive.
> >
> > I still have logs, but not sure how much is required, desired, or
> > bothered with to deal with a guy like this, esp. as a non-Aussie
> > citizen.   The curious thing is that he's involved with a ring of
> > other Turkish DDoS individuals.   I'm not sure how many locals he has
> > met that also participate in the same activity.
> 
> There is, perhaps, another way to look at this. If you report him to the police
> for the kind of actions that you're describing, you're likely to be helping
> other businesses in Perth. Here at iiNet we're pretty much continually looking
> for staff, and the last kind of person we want is the kind of clown that you're
> describing. I'm sure most other companies would feel the same.
> 
> My personal view of this kind of behaviour is that one chance is all you get -
> he tidies up his act or harm happens.
> 
> Hook
> 
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