Silverman wins Arthur Ellis crime writing award for co-authoring Mafiaboy

Prolific freelancer and Regret the Error blogger Craig Silverman and hacker Michael Calce last night won the best non-fiction award for co-writing Mafiaboy: How I Cracked the Internet and Why It's Still Broken at the annual Arthur Ellis awards from the Crime Writers of Canada.

Calce is the Montreal high school student known as Mafiaboy, who launched a series of denial-of-service attacks on the internet in 2000. The book tells the story of his infiltration of sites such as Yahoo, eBay and CNN and what happened to him afterward.

Silverman is a columnist for The Globe And Mail and Hour, a Montreal weekly.

(The Arthur Ellis Awards are named after the working name of Canada's official hangman.)