Allegations Against Aaron Caffrey for DDoS Attack on US Port Systems

The British teenager accused of an electronic attack on a major US port was a member of a "hacker's alliance", a court heard yesterday. Aaron Caffrey, 19, told Southwark Crown Court that he was a member of group called Allied . . . The British teenager accused of an electronic attack on a major US port was a member of a "hacker's alliance", a court heard yesterday. Aaron Caffrey, 19, told Southwark Crown Court that he was a member of group called Allied Haxor Elite, the Daily Mirror reports. However he added that he only "hacked into computer's legally... but never illegally".

Caffrey denies unauthorised computer modifications connected with an attack on the Internet systems of the Port of Houston in September 2001. Last week, prosecutor Paul Addison told the court that a misdirected DDoS attack by Caffrey against an IRC user slowed important information systems at the port to a crawl

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