Mafiaboy To Plead Guilty In Web Attacks

A Montreal-area teen-age computer hacker known online
as "Mafiaboy" has agreed to plead guilty to a series of attacks
on high-profile Internet sites including CNN, Yahoo and others,
according to prosecutors.

A report by Agence France-Presse (AFP) said today that the
16-year-old, who remains unidentified due to Canada's youth
protection law, has agreed to plead guilty to most of the 66 charges
he faces, according prosecutor Louis Miville-Deschenes, who addressed
a juvenile court hearing on Monday.

The judge set a hearing to accept the plea for Dec. 8, at which time
the teen could receive up to two years in prison and a fine of up to
$1,000 dollars (US$650). Mafiaboy is alleged to have touched off a
Denial of Service (DoS) storm last February which paralyzed a large
number of major Web sites, including Amazon.com, eBay.com and
Dell.com, AFP said.