Posted on 10/30/2009 4:11:38 PM PDT by Cindy
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Former CEO of YouSendIt Charged with Denial of Service of Attack
SAN JOSE, CA—Khalid Shaikh, a former CEO of YouSendIt Inc., was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday with four counts of mail fraud, United States Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello announced.
The indictment states that between December 2008 and June 2009 Shaikh used the ApacheBench software program to launch four denial of service (DOS) attacks against YouSendIt’s servers. Each DOS attack temporarily rendered the servers incapable of handling legitimate network traffic and deprived YouSendIt’s customers use of the company’s services.
YouSendIt is a company based in Campbell, Calif., that is engaged in the business of digital content delivery through the Internet. YouSendIt enables users to send, receive and track large files of digital data. YouSendIt’s Web servers are located in San Jose. These servers are also used to facilitate interstate and foreign commerce and communication.
According to the indictment, when the company was established in 2004, Shaikh was one of YouSendIt’s founders. He served as the company’s chief executive officer until August 2005. Thereafter, Shaikh served as the company’s chief technology officer until he departed from YouSendIt in November 2006.
The maximum statutory penalty for each count of mail fraud in violation 18 U.S.C. §§ 1030(a)(5)(A) & (c)(4)(A) is five years imprisonment, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000, plus restitution if appropriate. However, any sentence following conviction would be imposed by the court after consideration of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and the federal statute governing the imposition of a sentence, 18 U.S.C. § 3553.
Hanley Chew is the Assistant U.S. Attorney who is prosecuting the case with the assistance of Legal Assistant Lauri Gomez, and Law Clerks Traci Lee and Lily Robinton. The charges are the result of a referral to and an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Please note: An indictment contains only allegations against an individual and, as with all defendants, Shaikh must be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
I’ve known this guy for several years. He always seemed nice and low key. He was not a hacker type. He’s from Canada and moved to Silicon Valley when the company decided to move to the area. (I didn’t know the company moved from Mountain View to Campbell)
Actually, a lot of incidents I post in the U.S.A.; the neighbors, families and friends describe the subjects and/or suspects as nice, nice and quiet, the nicest guy you could ever meet, etc.
It’s not for me to judge.
I should mention that the company did not treat any of it’s four original founders well. I was not closely involved in it, but as an outsider, it seemed once the investors took over they dumped the founders as fast as they could. Khalid seemed to handle it very professionally. I remember thinking I would be very angry if that happened to me.
All I am saying is, he isn't a terrorist or something. He was a techie, he was an entrepreneur. He went to McGill. I doubt he even practiced any religion.
I understand you are a California resident but may I ask your nationality?
This is NOT a terrorism case Nick and nor is it referred as such on the quoted text.
I follow internet and computer trends and cases, too and that is why it is posted.
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American
Which country in the Americas?
That is the standard Silicon Valley modus operandi.
It's almost a tautology. Anybody in an acquired technology company had better have an exit strategy.
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