2004's Cisco Hacker Convicted this week in Sweden

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A 19 year old man was convicted for hacking activity in Sweden, and "Swedish Radio News ... reports that following the reversal, the American FBI wants the Swedish police to investigate if the 19 year old was responsible for a hacker attack at Cisco." (source: Notes from Sweden /radiowood.com )

[UPDATE, 20 NOV 2007 00:05 UTC : I admit implying that this young man is positively 2004's "Cisco Hacker" in the blog title is misleading :-) ~The Liberty Miller]
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from the ' International Herald ', Monday 19 November 2007:
'Cisco hacking suspect convicted in Sweden'

2007-11-19, STOCKHOLM, Sweden:

A Swedish teenager who is suspected of hacking into the computer network of Cisco Systems Inc. in the U.S. was convicted Monday of 'intruding on the networks of three Swedish universities'.

Overturning an acquittal by a lower court, the Svea Court of Appeal gave the [now] 19-year-old man a conditional sentence and ordered him to pay 160,000 kronor (US$ 25,000; € 17,000) in damages to the universities...

  >> iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/19/technology/EU-TEC-Sweden-Hacker

Background:

• MAY 2004 (3 years, 6 months ago):
  "Cisco investigates source code leak"
  
  The technology giant confirms that some of the proprietary source code that drives its networking hardware has appeared on the Internet...
  " An unspecified amount of the proprietary source code that drives Cisco Systems' networking hardware has appeared on the Internet, the technology giant acknowledged early Monday.
  A representative could not confirm, however, that network intruders made off with 800MB of code, as reported by a Russian security group over the weekend..."
  
  ~ CNET News.com; May 17, 2004
  
  
• MAY 2005:
  "Cisco Says Swede Detained for 2004 Hacking Incident"
  
  " Cisco Systems Inc. said on Tuesday authorities in Sweden had detained a person for stealing its [Cisco IOS software] source code [last year; Cisco IOS constitutes] the basic instructions for the machines that direct Internet traffic around the globe... "
  
  ~ Reuters; May 2005
  
  
• May 2005:
  "Investigators link Cisco hack to other activities"
  
  " In e-mail messages sent to a University of California, Berkeley, researcher last year, a computer hacker claimed to have breached the computer networks of several U.S. government sites, including military installations, according to a New York Times story published Tuesday.
  After the Cisco source code theft was announced in May 2004, security experts expressed concern that hackers could use the code to look for security holes in Cisco products. Companies using Cisco's networking products often connect them directly to the Internet without firewalls or other security products.
  Cisco applauded the Swedish arrest. "We are very encouraged that an arrest has been made in Sweden and will continue to work with the appropriate law ... "
  
  www.infoworld.com/article/05/05/10/HNciscohack_1.html?NETWORK%20STANDARDS
  
  
  
• May 2005:
  Cisco source code theft part of 'mega-hack' [?]
  
  " Hackers made off [with] the secret blueprint for [Cisco IOS software, the] software that controls the flow of traffic on the internet when they broke into Cisco'snetwork in May 2004 and ... "
  
  ~ The Register, 05/10/2005; cisco_hack_investigation

more:

• current: "FBI investigates Swedish hacker"; 2007-11-17, 'The Local ; Sweden's News In English'
• historical: > google search 'cisco hacker sweden

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