A juvenile is accused of using Low Orbit Ion Cannon to shut down online classes of the fourth-largest school district in the US with a series of massive DDoS attacks.
A 16-year old high school student was arrested for allegedly targeting the Florida School district’s online learning system and shutting down Miami-Dade public school district’s online classes.
The accused is a juvenile; therefore, his name hasn’t been revealed by the authorities.
Reportedly, the teenager attends South Miami Senior High School, which is part of Miami-Dade and has admitted to launching eight DDoS attacks using ‘Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC)’ to take down all the networks of the school district. This included their web architecture My School Online.
Furthermore, as the aftermath of the DDoS attacks, all the Miami-Dade servers got overwhelmed, and the district’s virtual classes got disrupted for three consecutive days.
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LOIC is a tool designed to overwhelm a website by launching a large number of data packets against a website using a slew of random computers. It is the same tool that Anonymous used around a decade ago for crippling companies like Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal.
According to a press release from Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ (M-DCPS) Office of Communications (OOC), since the start of the school year 2020-2021, the district has suffered over two dozen cybe ..
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