{"id":251,"date":"2005-05-10T13:40:22","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T17:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/05\/10\/young-hacker-penetrates-military-nasa-"},"modified":"2005-05-10T13:40:22","modified_gmt":"2005-05-10T17:40:22","slug":"young-hacker-penetrates-military-nasa-nets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/05\/10\/young-hacker-penetrates-military-nasa-nets\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Hacker Penetrates Military, NASA Nets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a5057'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\">\n&nbsp; <\/p>\n<tr>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<td width=\"180\" height=\"135\">\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; FRANCISCO, May 9 &#8211; The incident seemed alarming enough: a breach of a <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cisco Systems network in which an intruder seized programming instructions <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; for many of the computers that control the flow of the Internet.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Now federal officials and computer security investigators have acknowledged <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; that the Cisco break-in last year was only part of a more extensive operation <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8211; involving a single intruder or a small band, apparently based in Europe <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8211; in which thousands of computer systems were similarly penetrated.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Investigators in the United States and Europe say they have spent almost <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; a year pursuing the case involving attacks on computer systems serving <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; the American military, NASA and research laboratories.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; in Uppsala, Sweden, who was charged in March with breaking into university <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; computers in his hometown. Investigators in the American break-ins ultimately <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; traced the intrusions back to the Uppsala university network.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Swedish authorities are examining computer equipment confiscated from <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; the teenager, who was released to his parents&#8217; care. The matter is being <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; treated as a juvenile case.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; York Times<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/td>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; FRANCISCO, May 9 &#8211; The incident seemed alarming enough: a breach of a &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cisco Systems network in which an intruder seized programming instructions &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; for many of the computers that control the flow of the Internet. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/05\/10\/young-hacker-penetrates-military-nasa-nets\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serious-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}