Subscribe to one of our news e-mail lists . Several computers were discovered as compromised and used in the attacks, including ones at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Stanford University, and home business computers in Oregon. The FBI continues to investigate whether the New Hampshire teen was involved in the denial of service attacks, but thus far does not have the evidence to prove it, sources said.
Authorities suspect the boy in other minor Web defacement attacks.
He has not been arrested. RSA Security is a leading maker of Internet e-commerce encryption technology. Defacement of a Web site is a crime, albeit not nearly as destructive as a denial of service attack. The maximum penalty under the law is 10 years in prison and twice the gross monetary loss to the victims. The Web sites that fell victim to the February attacks claimed several million dollars in lost revenue and advertising income.