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SecurityFocus HOME News: 'T0rn' Arrest Alarms White Hats, Advocates by Decius at 7:07 pm EDT, Sep 26, 2002 |
"But last Thursday's raid was anything but routine, because the unnamed suspect, who has not yet been formally charged, isn't accused of cracking computers, launching a denial of service attack or distributing a virus. Instead, the joint Scotland Yard/FBI investigation is focused on his alleged authorship of the "T0rnkit," a collection of custom programs that help an intruder hide their presence on a hacked Linux machine." UK prosecutes someone for writing a hacking tool. Sklyarov analogies made. |
SecurityFocus HOME News: 'T0rn' Arrest Alarms White Hats, Advocates by Reknamorken at 8:14 pm EDT, Sep 26, 2002 |
"But last Thursday's raid was anything but routine, because the unnamed suspect, who has not yet been formally charged, isn't accused of cracking computers, launching a denial of service attack or distributing a virus. Instead, the joint Scotland Yard/FBI investigation is focused on his alleged authorship of the "T0rnkit," a collection of custom programs that help an intruder hide their presence on a hacked Linux machine." UK prosecutes someone for writing a hacking tool. Sklyarov analogies made. [ Bad, bad, bad. --Rek ] |
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