Computer nerd must pay back £69,000 or face two years inside

  A computer nerd who made £300,000 selling home-made software used to crash websites and computer networks around the world was ordered to pay back just £69,000 today (mon). Adam Mudd, 20, created a programme called ‘Titanium Stresser’ which was used to attack 1.7 million sites by overloading them with millions of simultaneous requests for access. He used it to personally carry out 595 ‘distributed denial of services’ attacks – or DDoS – against 181 different IP addresses, including his…