Canadian Police Announce Arrest Of 15-Year-Old In DDoS Incident

Canadian police on Wednesday are expected to announce details of an arrest made in connection with February's blocking of access to some of the Internet's most popular sites, and U.S. television said the suspect is a 15-year-old known online as . . . Canadian police on Wednesday are expected to announce details of an arrest made in connection with February's blocking of access to some of the Internet's most popular sites, and U.S. television said the suspect is a 15-year-old known online as Mafiaboy. The denial of access attacks on Feb. 2 shut down such popular sites as Yahoo (stock: YHOO), Amazon.com (stock: AMZN), and eBay (stock: EBAY) for hours.

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