Mntsnow
10-12-2003, 1:17 PM
An English teenager, charged with hacking in and crippling a U.S. seaport's computer navigation system, told a court on Friday his PC was hijacked by hackers posing as him.
Aaron Caffrey, 19, from Dorset, southwest England, was charged last year under the 1990 Computer Misuse Act and accused of unleashing a flood of data capable of knocking computers offline on a Houston, Texas, seaport in September 2001. He denies the charges.
Read more (http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/10/10/hijacked.hacker.reut/index.html)
Aaron Caffrey, 19, from Dorset, southwest England, was charged last year under the 1990 Computer Misuse Act and accused of unleashing a flood of data capable of knocking computers offline on a Houston, Texas, seaport in September 2001. He denies the charges.
Read more (http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/10/10/hijacked.hacker.reut/index.html)