NEW YORK — U.S. investigators are focusing on a handful of potential suspects in last week's attacks on major Web sites, Internet security experts and hacker sources familiar with the investigation said on Monday. As experts traced the Web site blitzkrieg to a virulent new software program, Tribal Flood Network, used to break into computer networks, Internet security firms raced to offer updated programs to fend.....

A 17-year-old Colorado Springs boy was charged in juvenile court Tuesday with one count each of computer crime and criminal mischief after he broke into the city's Web site in October and replaced it with the message, "i love this city ytcracker 9d9 palmer high." The two felony charges carry a maximum penalty of two years of juvenile detention. The boy, known online as "ytcracker,".....

America Online, Inc. is the latest Net crime victim to have the privacy of some of its 23 million members violated. While the extent of weekend damage is unknown, the knowledge of how to access security holes in America Online's (Quote, Chart) network is spreading quickly through Internet channels. While AOL members are assured at every point of contact that their information is secure from potential maliciousness,.....

A 17-year-old minor residing in Colorado Springs, CO, was charged with violating Colorado State computer crime statutes. The 17-year-old, known throughout the hacker community as "YTCracker" (pronounced "Whitey Cracker"), was charged with one count of computer crime and one count of criminal mischief by compromising and defacing numerous Internet web sites, including DoD web site servers in Boston, MA, and Fort Belvoir, VA. On November.....