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Michael Calce - better known as "Mafiaboy" - said the act against Le Devoir is known in the hacking community as "defacing."
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed PHILIPPE TEISCEIRA-LESSARD 2011
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Michael Calce - better known as "Mafiaboy" - said the act against Le Devoir is known in the hacking community as "defacing."
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed PHILIPPE TEISCEIRA-LESSARD 2011
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Michael Calce, once known as "Mafiaboy," shut down sites like eBay, Yahoo! and CNN.com before his arrest at age 15.
CNN.com 2011
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The kid, allegedly nicknamed "Mafiaboy," was charged with two counts of "mischief" against CNN. com.
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This individual, using the nickname "Mafiaboy," stated numerous times that he was responsible for those "DOS" attacks.
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Two weeks later, the RCMP investigators formally identified "Mafiaboy" as a 15-year-old teenager whose real identity cannot be revealed in virtue of Canadian law.
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But some security experts think it's unlikely Mafiaboy could have been responsible for attacks on eBay or Yahoo.
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The first widely publicized use of a distributed intruder tool -- technically not a botnet, but practically the same thing -- was in February 2000, when Canadian hacker Mafiaboy directed an army of compromised computers to flood CNN.com, Amazon.com, eBay, Dell Computer and other sites with debilitating volumes of traffic.
How Bot Those Nets? 2006
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The first widely publicized use of a distributed intruder tool -- technically not a botnet, but practically the same thing -- was in February 2000, when Canadian hacker Mafiaboy directed an army of compromised computers to flood CNN.com, Amazon.com, eBay, Dell Computer and other sites with debilitating volumes of traffic.
How Bot Those Nets? 2006
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The suspect in question is a 15-year-old boy who Canadian officials won't identify because he is a juvenile, only to say that his screen name he goes by "Mafiaboy."
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