Mafiaboy
Subtitle: how I cracked the Internet and why it's still broken
By: Michael Calce and Craig Silverman
Contributors: Silverman, Craig
Publisher: Viking Canada
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780670067480
Subjects: Hackers; Criminalite informatique; Biographies; Securite informatique; Pirates informatiques; Computer crimes; Computer security; Biography
Description: "In early 2000, the websites of CNN, Yahoo, E*Trade, Amazon, and eBay ground to a halt for several hours, causing panic everywhere from the White House to suburbia and around the world. After two months and hundreds of hours of wiretapping, the FBI and RCMP staged a late-night raid to apprehend the most wanted man in cyberspace - a fifteen-year-old kid. Mafiaboy." "For eight years, Mafiaboy, a.k.a. Michael Calce, has ignored requests from every major media outlet in North America and refused to tell his story - until now." " Using his experience as a cautionary tale, Calce takes his readers through the history of hacking and how it has helped make the internet the new frontier for crime in the 21st century."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Raid at Rue du Golf; title: As seen on CNN; title: Weekend iat Cite Des Prairies; title: Media circus; title: Portrait of the hacker as a young man; title: A brief history of hacking; title: The birth of archangel Michael; title: Blindspot; title: Call me Mafiaboy; title: I'm TNT; title: Rivolta : the attacks; title: Wanted : Mafiaboy; title: Dad, it was me; title: Suspicious minds; title: Wiretapped; title: "Open the door, or we'll break it down"; title: Eighteen days in hell; title: Guilty; title: My day in court; title: "This adolescent had a criminal intent"; title: Final odyssey; title: Mafiaboy 2.0; title: Life uploaded; title: Hacking for country, hacking for profit; title: Attack of the botnets; title: What lurks inside your PC; title: The Mafiaboy guide to protecting yourself online.