http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/jethro-sentencing/ By Kim Zetter Threat Level Wired.com March 23, 2010 A computer security professional who sold Internet Explorer exploit code to credit card hacker Albert Gonzalez was sentenced Tuesday in Boston to three years probation and a $10,000 fine. Jeremy Jethro, 29, was paid $60,000 by Gonzalez for a zero-day exploit against Microsoft's browser, "the purpose and function of which was to - enable the conspirators to unlawfully gain access to, and redirect, individual.s computers," according to court records. Gonzalez led a team of hackers who gained unauthorized access to company networks and stole more than 90 million credit and debit card numbers, though it's not clear what role, if any, the $60,000 zero-day played in the attacks. Jethro's attorney, Stacey Richman, told Threat Level the exploit was a dud. "The exploit never worked," she said. "None of them worked. There was a question of potentially two [exploits] and neither of them worked." [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Tue Mar 23 2010 - 23:47:52 PDT
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