Israelis Confess to Internet Attack
Reuters | at | by Mike
Busted!
Four Israeli teenagers were placed under house arrest on Monday after admitting they wrote and spread the "Goner" worm that wreaked havoc on computers worldwide, police said. Tel Aviv's juvenile court accepted a police request to confine the 15- and 16-year-olds to their houses pending five days of investigation, said Meir Zohar, head of the Israeli police computer crimes squad. Under Israeli law, they would face up to 2-1/2 years in prison for a virus that deleted files and clogged e-mail inboxes around the world, causing millions of dollars in damage.