'Revenge' hack downed US port systems
News 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 to take advantage of security vulnerabilities in Microsoft's IIS Web server software, the prosecution...
[October 7, 2003, 16:10]
Hacking suspect takes the stand
News The defendant, Aaron Caffrey, who was giving evidence for the first time during the trial, told the court he noticed the DDoS (distributed denial of service attack) script on his system "at some point in 2001".
[October 9, 2003, 17:55]
Accused port hacker says log files were 'edited'
News In his interview with the police, which was read out in court on Tuesday, Aaron Caffrey said: "My OS supports remote admin and remote assistance. On Wednesday, the trial's second day, the defence counsel for Aaron Caffrey started questioning...
[October 8, 2003, 14:35]
Virtual girlfriend 'inspired Internet attack'
News The prosecution argues that Aaron Caffrey launched a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) in reaction to what he perceived as criticisms of his girlfriend, Jessica. Prosecutors have produced records, or log files, of Internet chats that took...
[October 10, 2003, 17:55]
Expert undermines hacking suspect's defence
News The defence counsel for Aaron Caffrey, who is on trial at Southwark Crown Court, had said that his client's computer could have been compromised by a hacker who had altered the system's log files -- which record how the machine is being used...
[October 9, 2003, 15:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Aaron Caffrey, the nineteen-year-old whose computer launched a denial of service attack that crippled the Port of Houston, has been found not guilty. Friday 17/10/2003 Hot news from Southwark Court! His defence -- that someone else hacked into his...
[October 17, 2003, 16:25]
Accused hacker denies link to 'elite' group
News Aaron Caffrey, 19, claims that his computer was hijacked by two hackers known as Dry Ice and Friction using a Trojan horse to remotely control his PC without his knowledge. Caffrey was arrested last year after US police traced a denial of service...
[October 14, 2003, 16:05]
11,000 IP addresses found on accused hacker's PC
News Aaron Caffrey, whose father is a software engineer and mother is a lecturer in IT, allegedly used a well-known 'Unicode' exploit to take advantage of vulnerabilities in Microsoft's IIS Web server software.
[October 8, 2003, 16:20]
Trojan defence acquits British teenager
News Aaron Caffrey, 19, was accused of being part of an elite hacking group, and having a DDoS script and the IP addresses of more than 11,000 vulnerable servers on his computer, but was found not guilty after the jury spent just a few hours...
[October 17, 2003, 12:58]
UK man charged with DDoS attack
News Aaron Caffrey, charged with committing a DDoS attack on the port of Houston's IT systems, was acquitted in 2003. A UK man was due in court on Monday over claims he used a network of zombies to commit distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
[January 18, 2005, 8:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog UK defence lawyers have proved somewhat more effective than the 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 were left with reasonable doubt as to...
[June 10, 2005, 18:55]
