| New Zealand teenager's exploit prove hacking advances |
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| Tuesday, 04 March 2008 | |||||
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"The 18-year-old is thought to have written the software used to hack into 1.3 million computers and even brought down the computer system at a major US university," said Sweeney. Unconfirmed reports suggest that Walker's network had allegedly skimmed about 10 million pounds in total from the victims' bank accounts, as well as crashing a supposed robust server at University of Pennsylvania in 2006," he added. According to Sweeney, if true, then Walker would have been just 16 years old at the time of these events which is evidence that the opportunity to construct and use software that can compromise so many machines is within the reach of almost anyone who has the skills. "Regardless of whether he is guilty or not, or whoever committed these crimes, the message has once again been repeated - criminal hacking has moved into a new phase, and companies need to protect their IT resources with security systems that reflect these changes," he said. For more on the alleged Kiwi hacker's exploits: For more on Tier-3: ABOUT TIER-3 Tier-3, with headquarters in Sydney, is the inventor of Behavioural Anomaly Detection (BAD) technology which is the cornerstone of the HUNTSMAN Threat Management System. HUNTSMAN enables enterprises to scale security management while, at the same time, improving its effectiveness by offering for the first time, insight into enterprise ICT infrastructure and real-time risk-based threat management. Tier-3s significant customer base includes government, financial institutions, major corporations, and organisations in the critical infrastructure and intelligence areas around the world. www.tier-3.com Media Contact: Neil Stinchcombe Eskenzi PR Ltd. ++44(0)20 7183 2833 This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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