Today Aaron Caffrey was acquitted for hacking. The bbc has the following bit in their story.
Prosecutor Paul Addison asked him whether if he had seen the film Hackers.
Elite is the name given to the best of the group targeting the FBI in the film.
The teenager said he had seen the film but denied there was any link to his group.
I really pity anyone being put on trial for any hacking – or any computer crime – today, the legal system just has no clue.
Apple today released iTunes for Windows and new iPod firmware. The firmware introduces a whole lot of new features that was not previously available:
I have been a bit busy sorting out the new flat but think I am finally getting there, my new study is nicely settled now and I can close the door on the humming of machines. I have also minimized the amount of machines I have – less noise etc.
The big news for today is all about Mozilla releasing a new Firebird, Thunderbird and Mozilla Suite. I am very glad to see a new Firebird arrive and I hope they will soon work on a better install/upgrade method.
Well I have now moved to my new place and BT managed to get my ADSL in 2 days in advance of their projected install date, so far it seems nice and stable and I can finally sleep soundly again knowing I wont be stuck with dial-up for the next 6 months
I got this pdf via Boing Boing Blog, it is a full account and analysis of a spammer who owned a box via some PHP, Gallery and Geeklog vulnerabilities, installed some processes that tried their best to look like webservers that acted as bulk senders.
What makes this really interesting is the lengths that the spammers goes to in order to get their mail sent, custom written daemons, reporting back to the mother ship and so forth. Also interesting to read this for a view on some real world forensics performed and what looks like a good solid investigation into a compromised box.
This proves to me that the spammers have most definitely taken the fight to the next level and that those combating spam have a long way to go still before the spammers are going to admit defeat.
