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Another NASA Hacker Indicted

Posted by kdawson on from the white-hats-provide-poor-cover dept.

eldavojohn writes "Earlier this year, UK citizen & hacker of NASA Gary KcKinnon was extradited to the United States (also interviewed twice). Now, another hacker has been indicted for hacking more than 150 U.S. government computers. Victor Faur, 26, of Arad, Romania claims to have led a 'white hat team' to expose flaws in U.S. government computers. It seems everyone else has been busy hacking into government systems while I've been wasting my time playing Warcraft." From the article: "The breached computers were used to collect and process data from spacecraft. Because of the break-ins, systems had to be rebuilt and scientists and engineers had to manually communicate with spacecraft, resulting in $1.36 million in losses for NASA and nearly $100,000 in losses for the Energy Department and the Navy, prosecutors said. Several suspected NASA hackers have been dealing with law enforcement recently."

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  1. I guess he joins the ranks of the 1337 h4x0rz by chimachima · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I guess we'll never find out about the people who have successfully hacked into NASA and avoided legal indictment to tell the tale of how they did it. It's kind of like the winning the Olympic Gold Medal of Hackerdom no? Hack into NASA, get indicted by the FBI, you win teh intarweb.

  2. Eh, Government oversight... by rijit · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The government has a way of inflating values on damage like this to make the charges more than what they should be. I think punishment is definitely called for and the investigation should add up damages but needs to do so in a manner that makes them more responsible for their findings. Instead of tossing out a "guess-timate", they should not give a quote without all the facts present.

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  3. Hacker? by radu.stanca · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I`m from Arad, and I know a friend who knows a friend who knew that guy(no joke). He used hang aroung irc channels(nickname SirVic) ddosing anything he could, he probably had no ideea he hacked NASA, ./scan, install rootkit and psybnc, and that`s it, just a stupid script kiddie cracker.

    Sadly, almost any news involving Romania are mostly about phishers, skiddies and crackers...I hate my country.

  4. "New"s by Yirimyah · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I saw this in the mainstream media about 4-5 days ago. Frankly, I assumed that this article refered to a different person. WD, guys.