
Sweden Probing Cisco, NASA Hacks

Swedish investigators are probing a hacker U.S. authorities accuse of unlawfully intruding into Cisco Systems, NASA’s Ames Research Center and NASA’s Advanced Supercomputing Division, the authorities said Monday. Philip Gabriel Pettersson, known in the hacking world as “ Stakkato ,” allegedly seized computer code that controls internet traffic. After the 2004 breach of Cisco, the proprietary source code for Cisco’s IOS operating system was discovered on a Russian website. Pettersson was indicted in the United States in May on five hacking counts , (.pdf) but could not be brought from Sweden to the United States for trial. Sweden does not extradite its own citizens, but said it was examining whether to prosecute him in Sweden after U.S. authorities in San Francisco initiated…


|
Buxley_Hall (Ed Hall) : @NASA Is this DC-8 the same one that was based out of Ames Research Center in the mid-80s with the Kuiper Airborne Observatory?.. Updated : 2010-09-02T22:44:14Z | Reply | View Tweet |
|
lunensis (Luna) : There are organics on Mars: how does this change the search for life. Christopher P. McKay. NASA Ames Research Center... Updated : 2010-09-02T19:47:28Z | Reply | View Tweet |
|
greenexistence (Heath Lackey) : Ames Research Center looks to shrink environmental footprint: San Jose Business JournalIt includes facilities, eng... http://bit.ly/dtFHBy.. Updated : 2010-09-01T05:16:51Z | Reply | View Tweet |
|
stubek (stubek) : Fire drill (@ NASA Ames Research Center N233) http://4sq.com/cTKFSl.. Updated : 2010-08-31T16:44:12Z | Reply | View Tweet |
|
lagayascienza (Général Spinoza) : "In the 1970s, NASA's Ames Research Center gathered artists and tasked them with designing space colonies" - http://j.mp/cyFTBx.. Updated : 2010-08-31T11:38:38Z | Reply | View Tweet |





















