John Mckay, annouced that a juvenile has been arrested in connection with the release of a variant of the Blaster computer worm or known also as RPCSDBOT version of worm. Dangerously, it can infect computers to launch a distributed denial of service attack against the Microsoft corporation. The arrest is for an act of juvenile delinquency which based on causing damage intentionally and attempting to destroy protected computers.
John Mckay ask the Washington Cyber Task Force on its speedy and effective investigation and thanked Microsoft Corporation for its help to law enforcement. Moreover, he emphasized an on-going investigation still remains even there was investigation of Blaster Worm. He encourages anyone who has information about this problem to contact the FBI or the USSS.
Windows Cyber Task Force investigated this case that cooperates with local law enforcement in The Western District of Washington, The Seattle Division of the FBI and The Seattle Division of the USSS. Giving help in the investigation are other divisions of the FBI & USSS.
For the adjudication of deliquency, the public is reminded that an arrest of a juvenile is based on allegations which must be varified to a court beyond a reasonable doubt.
Today, in Washington D.C, The Justice Department annouced that a 16-year-old from Miami pleaded guilty and been sentenced to six months in a detention facility for two acts of juvenile deliquency. Those acts would have been for obtaining information from NASA computer networks illegally and violations of federal wiretap and computer abuse laws for intercepting electronic communications on military computer networks.
The juvenile or also known as "comrade" on the internet admitted today in US District Court in Miami that he was responsible for computer intrusions from August 23, 1999 to October 27, 1999 into a military computer network used by the Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) which is a agency of the Department of Defence charged with reducing the threat to tha U.S. and its allies from nuclear, biological, chemical, conventional and special weapons.
Other illegal actions that he committed are gaining unauthorized access to a computer server, known as a "router" located in Dulles and installing a concealed means of access or "backdoor" on the server. The program intercepted more than 3,300 electronic messages to and from DTRA staff. Futhermore, at least 19 user names and passwords of computer accounts of DTRA employees and at least 10 user names and passwords military computers had been intercepted.
On June 29 and 30, 1999, "cOmrade" accessed a total of 13 NASA computers located at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, illegally by using two different ISPs to originate the attacks. Due to that, he obtained and downloaded proprietary software from NASA valued at approximately $1.7 million. The software supported the International Space Station's (ISS) physical environment, including control of the temperature and humidity within the living space.
Pertaining to that, the NASA computer systems forced to shut down for 21 days in July 1999 that resulted in a delivery delay of program software costing NASA approximately $41,000 in contractor labor and computer equipment replacement costs.
Other than serving six months in a detention facility as conditions of his guilty plea, "cOmrade" will write letters of apology to the Department of Defense and NASA and also agreed to the public disclosure of information about the case.
U.S Attorney in Miami , Guy A. Lewis said: "This case should send a clear message to our community that, given the appropriate case, they will aggresively prosecute to the full extent of the law."
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