Miami high schooler charged with cyberattacks that stopped online learning

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Police have arrested a Florida high school student for alleged cyberattacks that rendered the Miami-Dade school district’s remote learning platform almost impossible to use.

Tools and services to conduct DDoS attacks are easily found on dark web hacker forums, and such attacks can be hard to attribute, but the student admitted to “orchestrating” eight of them, the school district said Thursday.

The Miami-Dade school district’s dedicated police department had help from the FBI and the Secret Service, federal agencies that frequently investigate cybercrimes, the school said. That department’s chief of police, Edwin Lopez, said he believed the student wasn’t alone, and that law enforcement is looking for the others.

“We believe, based upon our investigation, that other attackers are out there. We will not rest until every one of them is caught and brought to justice. Cyber attacks are serious crimes,” he said in a statement.

 

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WAS HE WHITE?

NSA should hire this kid

Hire him immediately

thedapperdiner dDoS is such a script kiddie 'attack'

That'll look good on their resume.

Well, there goes his college fund. Hopefully his folks can take a 2nd mortgage because FL tax payers should not bear the burden of setting this right. I mean, what a total jerk.

But if he shoots someone with an AR-15- he's cool. Got it.

Maybe get better cyber security then? I mean...if high school kids can hack it...

US voters Elected officials; Obama, Tim Scott, Maxine Waters, Elijah Cummings, Jim Clyburn, Al Green, Clarence Thomas, Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, Lori Lightfoot, London Breed, Muriel Bowser. Just to mention a few. Does this seem racist?

That’s one intelligent little pisser! Too bad he/she/them will spend time in juvvie hall with absolutely no access to even a game boy!😆

In my day we just pulled the fire alarm.

Well that’s one way of getting out of class. Someone needs to hire that kid

Put him to work on hacking the Russians attacking our election

Well one way too get out class 😂👍

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