Mafiaboy – A Portrait of the Hacker as a Young Man

by Michael Calce
with Craig Silverman
2008

In 2000 the hacker Mafiaboy brought down eBay, CNN, Amazon, Dell, E*TRADE and Yahoo!. Woah, I know. Big deal legal ramifications ensued, he’s totally white hat now, really great story.

Here’s the book’s website and here’s the Amazon link.

The @ symbol was used all the way back then 10+ years ago, preceding your name just like today: @KeriBlog

I’m kinda amazed that DDoS attacks are still the most effective, after all this time… but when I think more about it ,makes complete sense, but isn’t that funny in itself? All that advancement and still one of original tricks is the best.

Did you know Estonia is VERY wired, and the government declared internet a human right.

Just finished this book tonight.

I’ve got a list here of Just a Minute videos to do about online safety. Note the word safety, not security. I’m not an expert. Do not take my word for it, look it up.

Your online security is only as good as you make it.

It’s a big internet out there!

Change your passwords… because when was the last time you did?

Here’s a video about that.