The article and the FBI statement are a little unclear, but I don't think that's what they mean. "Beginning in or about December 2008 and continuing through Ju

The article and the FBI statement are a little unclear, but I don't think that's what they mean. "Beginning in or about December 2008 and continuing through June 2009, Mr. Shaikh sent an ApacheBench computer code to YouSendIt’s servers. ApacheBench is a benchmarking program used for measuring the performance of computers known as web servers. ApacheBench was designed to determine the number of requests per second a server is capable of serving. By intentionally transmitting the ApacheBench program to YouSendIt’s servers, Mr. Shaikh was able to overwhelm the servers’ capabilities and render it unable to handle legitimate network traffic." I have to think when they say "sent... to" they mean he directed the AB to make requests from YouSendIt's server, not that he posted it to the service. Otherwise the rest of the statement - "able to overwhelm the servers’ capabilities and render it unable to handle legitimate network traffic" - doesn't make any sense, unless someone can explain how simply transmitting the benchmark executable via the service somehow caused that. (As someone else pointed out, he could have used AB to /post/ AB to the servers... but I don't see anything in these articles to necessarily support that... and it would seem like the payload is less interesting than the transmission method.)