{"id":302,"date":"2006-01-25T00:36:49","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T17:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=302"},"modified":"2006-01-25T00:36:49","modified_gmt":"2006-01-24T17:36:49","slug":"botmaster-pleads-guilty-to-computer-crimes-cnet-newscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/botmaster-pleads-guilty-to-computer-crimes-cnet-newscom\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Botmaster&#8217; pleads guilty to computer crimes &#8211; CNET News.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Botmaster+pleads+guilty+to+computer+crimes\/2100-7348_3-6030270.html?tag=alert\">&#8216;Botmaster&#8217; pleads guilty to computer crimes | CNET News.com<\/a><br \/>\n<em>For more info click on above link<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A 20-year-old accused of using hundreds of thousands of hijacked computers, or &#8220;bot nets,&#8221; to damage systems and send massive waves of spam across the Internet, pleaded guilty to federal charges on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Jeanson James Ancheta, who prosecutors said was a well-known member of the &#8220;Botmaster Underground&#8221;&#8211;a secret network of hackers skilled in &#8220;bot&#8221; attacks&#8211;was arrested in November in what prosecutors said was the first such case of its kind.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles-area man pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy, damaging computers used by the U.S. government and fraud. He had been scheduled to stand trial later this year on a 17-count indictment.<\/p>\n<p>Ancheta faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison, although prosecutors say federal guidelines recommend between five and seven years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Botmaster&#8217; pleads guilty to computer crimes | CNET News.com For more info click on above link A 20-year-old accused of using hundreds of thousands of hijacked computers, or &#8220;bot nets,&#8221; to damage systems and send massive waves of spam across the Internet, pleaded guilty to federal charges on Monday. Jeanson James Ancheta, who prosecutors said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-spam","category-spyware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}