Photo: DPAA British man was handed a suspended jail sentence by a court in Cologne on Friday for a massive cyber attack against Deutsche Telekom last year. The 29-year-old last week described as "the worst mistake of my life" the attack that knocked more than one million German households offline in November, carried out for money on behalf of a Liberian client. He was detained in February at London's Luton airport on a European arrest warrant for attempted computer sabotage and extradited to Germany. Kaye told the court he was paid $10,000 (about €8,500) by a Liberian telecom company which wanted to use the botnet to damage a local rival. The large-scale strike fuelled concerns over cyber security in Germany and officials have warned that more online assaults are possible ahead of a general election in September.

Source: The Local July 28, 2017 13:41 UTC