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<p><i>To many who knew him, there was nothing odd about him. He was a normal kid...</i></p><p>On February 7, 2000, Yahoo.com was the first victim of the biggest distributed denial-of-service attack... More
<p><i>To many who knew him, there was nothing odd about him. He was a normal kid...</i></p><p>On February 7, 2000, Yahoo.com was the first victim of the biggest distributed denial-of-service attack ever to hit the Internet. On May 8<sup>th</sup>, Buy.com was battling a massive denial-of-service attack. Later that afternoon, eBay.com also reported significant outages of service, as did Amazon.com. Then CNN's global online news operation started to grind to a crawl. By the following day, Datek and E-Trade entered crisis mode...all thanks to an ordinary fourteen-year-old kid.</p><p>Friends and neighbors were shocked to learn that the skinny, dark-haired, boy next door who loved playing basketball--almost as much as he loved computers--would cause millions of dollars worth of damage on the Internet and capture the attention of the online world--and the federal government. He was known online as "Mafiaboy" and, to the FBI, as the most notorious teenage hacker of all time. He did it all from his bedroom PC. And h Minimize
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Format: Hardcover, Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media (April 01, 2002), I...

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