A judge in the Supreme Court of Sweden has affirmed the conviction in the country’s court of appeals of a19-year-old Swedish hacker accused of hacking Cisco, writes Computerworld UK. Meanwhile the FBI has been gathering evidence that points to the same hacker of penetrating several of Sweden’s top universities and the National Supercomputer Centre in Linköping. The Supreme Court’s decision could lead to United States prosecutors requesting complete investigation and a court case against the teenager for the Cisco hack, Computerworld UK reports.
The story adds:
The Cisco hack was discovered in 2005, as it emerged that the secret source code for networking equipment had been copied by somebody who gained access to Cisco’s servers. After the crackdown in Sweden, the hacks ceased, according to an FBI statement released at the time.
The Uppsala hacker admits to having made the tools used in the hacks, but denies having committed any of them. “He insists that the court of appeals made the wrong decision,” says Thomas Olsson, the lawyer of the Uppsala hacker. “Considering the weak argumentation, it might be possible that a different court might find differently.”
More about the hacker here.
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