<div id="subtitle">Prosecutors: Nebraska man to plead guilty in Los Angeles in Scientology cyber attack</div><div><p>Federal prosecutors in California say a Nebraska man will plead guilty to participating in a cyber attack on Church of Scientology Web sites in January 2008.</p><p>Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles, says Brian Thomas Mettenbrink agreed to plead guilty Monday to the misdemeanor charge of unauthorized access of a protected computer. He faces a year in federal prison.</p><p>Court records say Mettenbrink attacked Scientology Web sites as part of Anonymous, an underground group that protests the Church of Scientology, accusing it of Internet censorship.</p><p>Prosecutors say hackers conducted a "denial of service" attack, in which computers flood a target Web site with malicious Internet traffic, making it unavailable to legitimate users.</p><p>Prosecutors say Mettenbrink, of Grand Island, Neb., is expected to enter his plea next week in Los Angeles, where the Church of Scientology is based.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=67817271&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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