A teenager accused of launching an attack on one of the US’s biggest ports has claimed flaws in Windows allowed the real attacker to frame him. A UK teenager accused of launching a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on a major US port has said a flaw in Windows allowed hackers to take control of his machine and launch the attack without his knowledge. In his interview with the police, which was read out in court on Tuesday, Aaron Caffrey said: “My OS supports remote admin and remote assistance. At that time, the patches were not available. Anyone could control it. Windows Media Player was also unpatched.” Caffrey added: “Someone has edited those log files. just because something says something, it doesn’t mean it happened. My machine was hackable. They have planted it or added to it.” Full Story
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