"The internet could go down if Brundage spent too much time on his exams"
wsj.com
wsj.com
"A college kid at RIT cracked one of the biggest cyberattacks ever seen, mostly from his dorm room. Benjamin Brundage mapped out a botnet called Kimwolf — 2 million hacked Android devices being rented out to launch massive DDoS attacks — by infiltrating hacker chat rooms and sweet-talking insiders with cat memes. His research eventually fed into a federal takedown. The feds are sending him a t-shirt. "