British man sentenced to 2+ years in prison for DDoS attack that took down internet connectivity in Liberia in 2016, after an ISP hired him to attack a rival (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:
British man sentenced to 2+ years in prison for DDoS attack that took down internet connectivity in Liberia in 2016, after an ISP hired him to attack a rival  —  Hacker knocked an entire country's internet connection offline.  —  A UK court sentenced today a 30-year-old man to two years …

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