Virtual girlfriend ‘inspired DDoS attack’

A U.K. teenager on trial for allegedly launching an Internet
attack on a U.S. port on Friday admitted he had never met a key figure
in the prosecution’s case–namely, his then-girlfriend–in person.

The prosecution argues that Aaron Caffrey launched a distributed denial
of service attack (DDoS) in reaction to what he perceived as criticisms
of his girlfriend, Jessica. Prosecutors have produced records, or log files,
of Internet chats that took place at the time of the attack, and which
they say prove that Caffrey had a motive to carry out the attack. Caffrey
argues that the log files were altered or planted on his computer by hackers,
who carried out the DDoS attack via his PC in order to cover
their tracks.

from
the CNetAsia