From: mea culpa (jerichoDIMENSIONAL.COM)
Date: Tue Aug 17 1999 - 05:38:27 CDT

• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

Originally From: "x-empt [ lvhc / lou ]" <lvhcurban-a.net>
Originally To: "dc-stuffdis.org" <dc-stuffdis.org>

AUGUST 16, 17:36 EDT

 Swedes Charged With U.S. Hacking

 By SUSANNA LOOF
 Associated Press Writer

 STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Two Swedish men were
 charged Monday with hacking into the computer systems of
 NASA and the U.S. military.

 Prosecutors said the intent apparently was not to steal
 anything, though NASA reportedly spent a lot of money to
 make sure it didn't happen again.

 State prosecutor Yngve Rydberg called the crimes ``digital
 graffiti.'' Trial was set for sometime this fall. Rydberg said he
 expected the two suburban Stockholm men would be fined, but
 not jailed.

 Charlie Malm and Joel Soederberg, both 24, were charged with
 violating Sweden's computer laws and buying stolen equipment.
 Malm works at a kindergarten, Rydberg for an Internet
 company.

 Contacted by The Associated Press, Soederberg declined to
 comment. Malm did not return a phone call placed to his home.

 The NASA break-in allegedly occurred between October and
 December 1996. Soederberg was detained for two weeks in
 early 1997. Malm has never been detained, Rydberg said.

 ``They didn't reach the holiest parts of the systems,'' he said,
 adding they failed in an attempt to infect NASA's computer
 system with a virus.

 The two also allegedly hacked into the computer systems of the
 U.S. Air Force, Army and Marines, and the British Internet
 company Wide Intellectual Resources, according to the charges.

 NASA intends to demonstrate in the trial that Malm and
 Soederberg ``caused NASA great economic loss,'' court
 documents stated.

 Thomas Talleur, director of NASA's computer crime unit, said
 the space agency suffers a lot of intrusions.

 ``Anybody who provides as many open sites as we do leaves
 itself open to attacks,'' he said in a telephone interview, adding
 that the agency mostly investigates hacker intrusions when
 organized crime is suspected.

ISN is sponsored by Security-Focus.COM

• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]