Reply From: <anon> > CAPE TOWN (Reuters) [11.6.98] - Police have arrested a teenage boy who > hacked through all the security features of South African > telecommunications company Telkom's computer system but apparently did no > damage, the company said on Thursday. Security features <cough>. Telkom and Dimension Data aren't stupid when it comes to the internet, they know SA hackers would love to get in and so have several firewalls to protect their systems. However, Dimension Data does have an intranet dial-up which a employee gave them a login and password to. They set up sniffers and found Dimension Data Telkom system. The sniffers also caught the usual login/passwords and you can guess what happened next. > A senior police source said earlier the boy, from the Rondebosch suburb of > Cape Town, had been in a position to move vast amounts of money around the > system but had seemingly been content to browse benignly. > > Telkom told Reuters its investigators had found the footprints of the > 15-year-old hacker around the system some weeks ago and had slowly tracked > him down, allowing police to swoop on Wednesday morning. They traced his telephone calls after they found root kits and sniffers on the network. They then showed up at his house with a search warrent, confiscated everything and arrested logeek. Although hacking in it self is not a crime in South Africa. Logeek and Kat have been charged with other offenses which include fraud, sabotage and interception. The maximum jail sentance for this is 20 years although nobody knows if telkom has enough data to actually get a conviction. -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Repent Security Incorporated [www.repsec.com]
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