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The case of the Trojan Wookiee

Aaron Caffrey walked free from Southwark Crown Court last week after being cleared of... Read more

21 October, 2003 by Munir Kotadia

Virtual girlfriend 'inspired Internet attack'

...case -- namely, his then-girlfriend -- in person. The prosecution argues that Aaron Caffrey launched a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) in reaction to what... Read more

10 October, 2003 by Munir Kotadia

Hacking suspect takes the stand

...idea how the attack script got onto his computer. The defendant, Aaron Caffrey, who was giving evidence for the first time during the trial, told... Read more

9 October, 2003 by Munir Kotadia

Expert undermines hacking suspect's defence

...planted on the suspect's hard drive. The defence counsel for Aaron Caffrey, who is on trial at Southwark Crown Court, had said that his... Read more

9 October, 2003 by Munir Kotadia

Accused hacker denies link to 'elite' group

...was part of an "elite" hacking group, a court heard yesterday. Aaron Caffrey, 19, claims that his computer was hijacked by two hackers known as... Read more

14 October, 2003 by Andy McCue

11,000 IP addresses found on accused hacker's PC

...of Houston in Texas, Southwark Crown Court was told on Wednesday. Aaron Caffrey, whose father is a software engineer and mother is a lecturer in... Read more

8 October, 2003 by Munir Kotadia

Accused port hacker says log files were 'edited'

...with the police, which was read out in court on Tuesday, Aaron Caffrey said: "My OS supports remote admin and remote assistance. At that time... Read more

8 October, 2003 by Munir Kotadia

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

Friday 17/10/2003Hot news from Southwark Court! Aaron Caffrey, the nineteen-year-old whose computer launched a denial of service attack... Read more

17 October, 2003

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...Crown Prosecution Service when it comes to dealing with IT matters -- Aaron Caffrey got off in the Port of Houston hacking case, because the jury... Read more

10 June, 2005

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...Crown Prosecution Service when it comes to dealing with IT matters -- Aaron Caffrey got off in the Port of Houston hacking case, because the jury... Read more

10 June, 2005 by Rupert Goodwins

UK man charged with DDoS attack

...the second time anyone has been charged with a DDoS offence. Aaron Caffrey, charged with committing a DDoS attack on the port of Houston's... Read more

18 January, 2005 by Jo Best

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

Friday 17/10/2003Hot news from Southwark Court! Aaron Caffrey, the nineteen-year-old whose computer launched a denial of service attack... Read more

17 October, 2003 by Rupert Goodwins

Trojan defence acquits British teenager

...both the defence and prosecution acknowledged that the attack had originated from Caffrey's computer, the defendant claimed his computer had been taken over by... Read more

17 October, 2003 by Munir Kotadia

'Revenge' hack downed US port systems

...The Port of Houston in Texas had its servers hijacked by Aaron Caffrey, 19, from Shaftesbury in Dorset, who used a well-known 'Unicode' exploit... Read more

7 October, 2003 by Andy McCue

IBM drops Internet patent bombshell

...the companies developing ebXML support in their solutions. Bind Systems' CEO Colm Caffrey also assumed that the specifications would be unencumbered by financial burdens. Bind... Read more

18 April, 2002 by David Berlind

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