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...lead - a 20-year-old German college student/cyberpunk called Mixter was believed to be behind one of the three "smurf" attacks that caused the disruptions. Yet it wasn't so much the work of NIPC that led law-enforcement to Mixter as the efforts of a band of private cyber-detectives. The California-based Network Associates, hired by the disrupted sites, was the entity able to secure the cooperation of tech firms across the world to trace part of the attack to a PC in Germany...
When a site has been hacked, its appearance is often altered by chest-beating hackers who leave the cyber equivalent of a "Kilroy was here" scrawl. This week's attacks, on the other hand, bombarded various high-traffic sites with an overflow of information, effectively shutting down normal operations. How do the perpetrators send so much data so quickly? Apparently, the most recent assaults are not typical denial of service pranks, which generally are sent from only one or two computers at a time. "These people scan the Internet for vulnerable systems, and they hack into those systems, and then...
...knobler.com, however, there was a light at the end of the tunnel. After taking a sabbatical from online ridicule, Knobler has put the website back in business. Showcasing new-found first-year abilities, he boasts to fellow cyber-surfers of skills in English, Spanish, Hebrew, Latin, Chinese, French, Italian, Russian "and German, among others...
Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies Lawrence Lessig, an expert in the field of cyber-law at Harvard Law School (HLS) and a fellow of HLS's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, offered his friend-of-the-court brief at the request of U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson...
...TRIAL GRANTED. TO PATRICK NAUGHTON, 34, ex-Infoseek honcho convicted last month of possessing cyber child porn; in Los Angeles. An appeals court ruled parts of federal child-porn law unconstitutional. Retrial is set for March...