November 15, 2007

Hacker arrested

Some time back we spoke of the hacker who managed to hack into several sensitive computer systems including Foreign Embassies and even some government depts, what made it worse was the fact that he posted details of how he did it and the details of sensitive usernames and passwords on the net for anyone who wanted to see and do with how they pleased.

It turns out that the common factor was that all the hacked organisations used an open source service called Tor, like an onion it has many layers and no one person has all of the information, yet Dan Egerstad from Sweden was on the inside, he was working on Tor and now its all over!

The man they called “Hacker of the Year” is now under arrest, despite the fact that he claims to have done nothing wrong, but we have all heard that one before!

Source [The Age]