A 15-year-old Canadian youth, using the alias Mafiaboy, has been charged with two counts of computer mischief this week in relation to the distributed denial of service attacks that crippled the CNN website and 1200 other sites for four hours.
A 15-year-old Canadian youth, using the alias Mafiaboy, has been charged with two counts of computer mischief this week in relation to the distributed denial of service attacks that crippled the CN...
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