Teen charged in cyber stock scam

Teen charged in cyber stock scam
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-10-09

Federal officials filed securities fraud and computer crime complaints Thursday against a Pennsylvania teenager who allegedly used a Trojan horse and someone else's online brokerage account to sell thousands of worthless stock options to an unwilling buyer.

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What all of you have failed to realize is that just having buy/sell 47,000 in Cisco is *just circumstantial* evidence. I am sure the authorities involved used that as a starting point. It *had* to take some technical savvy to *prove* it was this kid. Someone(s) with some know how had to tear apart various logs (ISP access logs, anonymous proxy logs, etc etc) to prove it - plain and simple. I am not saying the entire government sector understands computer security - but lets face it - they did a decent job this time.

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