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Yahoo DoS Attacker Raided

by Steve Gibson Mar 02, 2000 11:57pm CST tags: Wack News
Late evening story for you guys. Remember that whole DoS attack stuff going on taking down Yahoo, Amazon, etc? Well this bit on CNN looks like they finally tracked down someone who was involved in the stuff.

The home of a 17-year-old boy in New Hampshire was recently raided by the FBI in its investigation of last month's attacks on major Web sites such as Amazon and Yahoo!, sources familiar with the case said Thursday
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