Networking Blog

A german student Nils broke open the new Internet Explorer 8 in 5 minutes and got 5.000 USD at the conference CanSecWest. It is happened before some hours before the final release of IE 8, so Nils worked with release candidate.

Nevertheless hi got a full control on windows system “Windows 7″. Lately he broke Safari and Firefox and got more 10.000 USD and Sony Vaio notebook as a present.

John Schiefer was convicted for 4 years in prison and fine. John Schiefer and his collegues created a botnet from more than 250 thousands of computers. They used infected computers for advertisement and they tried to steal passwords and all personal data.

John Schiefer – former computer security consultant brought in a verdict of guilty in 2007. He face a 60 years of imprisonment and a fine about 1,5 million dollars. But at the trials he was convicet for 4 years of prison and a fine about 2 thousand dollars.