![]() ![]() The botnet sent thousands of fraudulent requests to authenticate, overloading the server. ![]() He had assembled an army of some 40,000 bots, primarily in Eastern Europe and China, and unleashed them on the Rutgers central authentication server. EST-as the registration period for first-year students in spring courses had just opened-Paras launched his first distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. On Wednesday night, 19 November 2014, at 10:00 p.m. Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Paras decided to crash the registration website so that no one could enroll. Enraged that upper-class students were given priority to enroll in a computer-science elective at First-year college students are understandably frustrated when they can’t get into popular upper-level electives. ![]()
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