DDoS: Man who sold website defences pleads guilty to attacks
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A man in the US who co-founded a service to protect sites from cyber-attackers has pleaded guilty to launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
Tucker Preston is co-founder of BackConnect, a cyber-security firm that claimed to be "the new industry standard in DDoS mitigation". However, he was accused of arranging DDoS attacks targeting an unnamed firm. A court document stated the attacks took place between 2015 and 2016.
News of the guilty plea was published online by Brian Krebs, a cyber-security expert and blogger. During a DDoS attack, a website or online service is flooded with high levels of internet traffic in an attempt to cause disruption or take the target website or service offline.
