Government investigators yesterday arrested a Minnesota teenager on charges of unleashing a version of the “Blaster” worm that snarled Internet traffic and shut down computer systems from Maryland to Sweden earlier this month. FBI agents arrested Jeffrey Lee Parson, an 18-year-old high school senior, early yesterday at the home he shares with his parents in Hopkins, Minn. The U.S. attorney’s office in Seattle, which is leading the case, charged Parson with intentionally damaging thousands of computers owned by Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft Corp., other businesses and individuals. Full Story
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