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Hacker 'Mafiaboy' pleads guilty to mischief
From: InfoSec News <isn () C4I ORG>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 01:15:16 -0600
http://www.thestar.com/apps/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=979743248124&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News Jan. 18, 2000 - 10:48 EDT MONTREAL (CP) - The computer hacker known as Mafiaboy, who crippled several major Internet sites including CNN, pleaded guilty on Thursday to 55 charges of mischief. The trial of the 16-year-old Montrealer was set to begin Thursday on 66 charges relating to attacks last year on several major Web sites, as well as security breaches of other sites at institutions such as Yale and Harvard. The court had just convened when Crown prosecutor Louis Miville-Deschenes announced the youth had pleaded guilty to most of the charges. He will be freed pending sentencing. The trial was expected to last three to six months, involve many witnesses and complex technical testimony. The boy was first arrested on two mischief charges last April after somebody calling themselves Mafiaboy crippled CNN's Web site last February. Last August, the Crown added 64 new hacking and mischief charges. Ten counts of mischief relate to denial-of-service attacks on the Web sites, including Yahoo, Amazon.com, e-Bay, and Dell.com. The sites were bombarded with thousands of simultaneous messages, which prevented legitimate users from accessing them. The remaining charges deal with hacking into computers, many of them located at American universities such as Harvard and Yale. The boy, who can't be identified under provisions of the Young Offenders Act, had pleaded not guilty to all the charges. The high-profile Mafiaboy case raised concerns both in the United States and Canada about Internet security. ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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