"Just a day after Dutch police arrested a 16-year-old boy in connection with Wikileaks-related denial-of-service attacks, websites belonging to the Netherlands computer crime cops and prosecutors have been struck with a similar assault." http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2010/12/10/dutch-police-website-attacked-aft... Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From:Michael Smith <msmith@internap.com> To:andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com Cc:nanog@nanog.org Sent:Thursday, 9 December 2010, 23:16:22 Subject:Re: Mastercard problems Exactly... Rounding up script kiddies one at a time is a pretty serious deterrent ;). I'm sure the bot-masters are quaking in their boots... :) ----- Original Message ----- From: andrew.wallace <andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com> To: Michael Smith Cc: nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Thu Dec 09 18:14:16 2010 Subject: Re: Mastercard problems It was a quick arrest wasn't it? ----- Original Message ----- From:Michael Smith <msmith@internap.com> To:andrew.wallace <andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com> Cc: Sent:Thursday, 9 December 2010, 21:49:16 Subject:RE: Mastercard problems 1 down, 3896 to go... :) -----Original Message----- From: andrew.wallace [mailto:andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 4:44 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Mastercard problems Dutch authorities have arrested a 16-year old "hacker" in connection with Mastercard. http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20025215-281.html Andrew