http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=854375 Canwest News Service October 02, 2008 The country's most notorious hacker, Mafiaboy, has written a tell-all book about his Internet attack of 2000 when he paralyzed the Web sites of CNN, Yahoo, eBay and other businesses for several hours. The book, Mafiaboy: How I Cracked the Internet and Why It's Still Broken, is expected to hit bookshelves next week. In it, the infamous hacker, now 23, explains that he was not a computer whiz kid but quickly gained knowledge of computers and got to know other young hackers. "I felt a strange kinship with these nameless, faceless programmers and online rebels," he writes in an excerpt made available by the publisher. "To me, they were the coolest kids in cyberspace. I wanted to hang with them. I wanted to be a hacker." The book, co-written with Montreal journalist Craig Silverman, is billed as "a cautionary tale." After a manhunt, the RCMP and FBI apprehended the then-15-year-old student. He pleaded guilty to more than 50 charges. __________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2008 - Malaysia! With a new triple-track conference featuring 4 keynote speakers and over 35 international experts, this is the largest network security event in Asia and the Middle East! http://conference.hackinthebox.org/hitbsecconf2008kl/Received on Thu Oct 02 2008 - 23:30:22 PDT
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