N.J. teen sentenced for DoS attacks

Computer crimes by teens are being taken seriously. Seventeen-year-old Jasmine Singh was sentenced to five years in youth detention for taking part in a denial-of-service, The Register reports. He apparently was hired to launch the attacks against online sporting goods stores, causing damages of $1.5 million. Judge Frederick DeVesa of New Brunswick, N.J., Superior Court "also ordered Singh to pay $35,000 in compensation. Singh used networks of compromised machines [zombie computers taken over by Trojan viruses]" to take out the Web sites "at the alleged behest of Jason Arabo, 18, of Southfield, Michigan, who ran competing Web sites."