FBI Arrests Hacker In Planned New Year's Eve Attack - Update.

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WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 2001 JAN 12 (NB) -- By Brian Krebs, Newsbytes. FBI agents have arrested a Seattle youth as part of an investigation into a ring of seven juvenile hackers - three in the US and four based overseas - who are suspected of plotting a series of virus and denial-of-service attacks on Christmas and New Year's Eve 2000.

The FBI reportedly arrested a 16-year-old suspected member of a suspected hacker ring that allegedly broke into severs of several Internet service providers in an attempt to use those computers to launch massive denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against an arbitrary set of targets. Four Israeli hackers also have been arrested in connection with the case. US and Israeli authorities have received some help from one of the...