Australian Federal Police have arrested a 17-year-old youth for allegedly hacking into a "prominent" Australian Internet Service Provider (ISP).
Appearing before the court for the first time, a teenager accused of launching an Internet attack argued he had been framed.
The UK teenager accused of launching a denial of service attack on a US port was cleared by Southwark Crown Court today.
In an attempt to find order in chaos, network defenders across the globe took on the Honeynet Project’s Reverse Challenge – to analyse and decipher binary code captured in the wild -- and an Australian programmer is reaping the rewards of sweet success.
An attack that disabled the servers of a major US port was the result of a spat over the suspect's Internet girlfriend, say prosecutors.
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With its attack tool update, The Metasploit Project may be aiding online vandals more than helping network administrators identify weak points, security experts say. Additional reading: Patch management: All talk, no action?
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