Mafiaboy's Guilty Plea Exposes DDoS Security Weaknesses

Mafiaboy, the Canadian teenager accused of launching a series of distributed denial of service attacks against a septet of the Internet's most popular sites last year, pleaded guilty Thursday to 56 of the 66 charges against him--just before his trial was . . . Mafiaboy, the Canadian teenager accused of launching a series of distributed denial of service attacks against a septet of the Internet's most popular sites last year, pleaded guilty Thursday to 56 of the 66 charges against him--just before his trial was set to start in a Montreal court.

While the action brought to a close one chapter in the DDoS saga of 2000, a year in which seven leading sites were hacked, another more disturbing chapter remains open: the fact that many of the same sites are still virtually powerless to stop such attacks.

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