Young Hacker Penetrates Military, NASA Nets

Posted on May 10, 2005 by glasscastle

 

   

 

        FRANCISCO, May 9 – The incident seemed alarming enough: a breach of a
        Cisco Systems network in which an intruder seized programming instructions
        for many of the computers that control the flow of the Internet.
       
        Now federal officials and computer security investigators have acknowledged
        that the Cisco break-in last year was only part of a more extensive operation
        – involving a single intruder or a small band, apparently based in Europe
        – in which thousands of computer systems were similarly penetrated.
       
        Investigators in the United States and Europe say they have spent almost
        a year pursuing the case involving attacks on computer systems serving
        the American military, NASA and research laboratories.

     

        in Uppsala, Sweden, who was charged in March with breaking into university
        computers in his hometown. Investigators in the American break-ins ultimately
        traced the intrusions back to the Uppsala university network.
       
        The Swedish authorities are examining computer equipment confiscated from
        the teenager, who was released to his parents’ care. The matter is being
        treated as a juvenile case.

     

        York Times
     

     

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