'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]
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. His defence -- that someone else hacked into his computer, took it over and used it for the attack...
[October 17, 2003, 16:25]
Accused port hacker says log files were 'edited'
News On Wednesday, the trial's second day, the defence counsel for Aaron Caffrey started questioning Detective Constable Stunt, a member of the Computer Crime Squad that forensically examined Caffery's computer in January 2002, which was around three...
[October 8, 2003, 14:35]
Trojan defence acquits British teenager
News The UK teenager accused of launching a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) on the Port of Houston's IT systems was found not guilty at Southwark Crown Court on Friday of unauthorised modification of computer material.
[October 17, 2003, 12:58]
11,000 IP addresses found on accused hacker's PC
News More than 11,000 IP addresses of vulnerable servers were found on the computer of a UK teenager that has been accused of launching a DDoS attack responsible for knocking out IT systems at the Port of Houston in Texas, Southwark Crown Court was...
[October 8, 2003, 16:20]
Accused hacker denies link to 'elite' group
News Caffrey was arrested last year after US police traced a denial of service attack that crashed the Port of Houston's website in Texas to a computer at Caffrey's home in Shaftesbury, Dorset. The teenager accused of bringing down a major US port's...
[October 14, 2003, 16:05]
Virtual girlfriend 'inspired Internet attack'
News The court was told that because Jessica was from the US, Caffrey launched a revenge DDoS attack on Bokkie, which resulted in the Port of Houston's servers being knocked offline. A UK teenager on trial for allegedly launching an Internet attack on a...
[October 10, 2003, 17:55]
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]
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]
New storage standard holds water
News Data Peer, Komatsu America International and the University of Houston are using the SN 5420, while J.P. The company's product line tops out with an eight-port switch, but the new IPS 4000 will have 16 connections.
[October 22, 2001, 8:48]
Compaq to launch new Deskpros worldwide
News In September, Houston-based Compaq will follow up with the Deskpro 4000s, which will be similar in form and function to the Deskpro 4000n NetPC, according to sources familiar with Compaq's plans. The chip set includes support for error-correcting...
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