Word: mafiaboy
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...recent years. One form of hacking - the denial-of-service (DoS) attack - has apparently even become a tool of war. The attacks are designed to paralyze websites, financial networks and other computer systems by flooding them with data from outside computers. A 15-year-old Canadian with the handle "mafiaboy" launched the first documented DoS attack in 2000, against numerous e-commerce sites, including eBay and Amazon.com, shutting some down and wreaking havoc that cost an estimated $1.7 billion. In 2007, entities believed to have been associated with the Russian government or its allies launched a DoS attack against Estonia...
...Maximum fine 16-year-old "Mafiaboy" could pay for hacking into computers at Yahoo, eBay and Dell, among others, last year...
...author or authors of this virus get nabbed (and you can bet they will be; the FBI is eager to show off its newly deployed National Infrastructure Protection squads), chances are they will be young men. David Smith was 31 when he pleaded guilty to distributing the Melissa virus. "Mafiaboy," the Montreal youth charged with disabling CNN.COM in February...
...Later, Mafiaboy boasts about his intended victims: "Microsoft will be gone for a few weeks," he says. "I'm thinking something big, maybe whitehouse.gov...
...investigation widens, Mafiaboy changes his handle to "anon": "Tonight I put this computer on the fireplace...I don't want to take any chances...