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Former Northeastern student pleads guilty to hacking NASA, others
From: William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 23:29:13 -0500
http://www.techserver.com/noframes/story/0,2294,500222509-500318460-501790855-0,00.html BOSTON (June 29, 2000 5:48 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - A former computer science student pleaded guilty Thursday to hacking a host of private and government targets, including the military and NASA. Ikenna Iffih, 20, who studied at Northeastern University, could have faced up to 20 years in prison, but under a plea agreement will serve no more than six months. Sentencing was set for October. Iffih, who was born in Nigeria, could also be deported. Iffih broke into computers belonging to the Defense Logistics Agency, which supplies and services the military, and accessed servers at the Interior Department and at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Once inside the NASA computer, Iffih installed a "sniffer program" that let him capture users' names and passwords. Prosecutors said national security was never threatened. But federal prosecutor Allison Burroughs said: "Hackers are notorious recidivists. The only thing you can do is catch them when you can and hammer them." *-------------------------------------------------* "Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." Gen. Alfred. M. Gray, USMC --------------------------------------------------- C4I Secure Solutions http://www.c4i.org *-------------------------------------------------* ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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