Proving that all systems are vulnerable from cyber attacks is the report that a Swedish national managed to hack into the systems at software giant Cisco and steal their source code.

But that wasn’t the only thing that the Swede is meant to have hacked into.

In a number of allegations contained within a U.S. legal indictment, the Swede is also alledged to have penetrated various NASA systems.

The attacks on Cisco and NASA took place in May, 2004, when the Swede was just 16. Now aged 21, he faces legal action after an investigation by the FBI, U.S. Secret Service and the Swedish authorities singled him out as the culprit.

The Swede has apparently disappeared, but unless the charges were filed locally, the Swedish government does not extradite its citizens to the U.S. If he were to be sent across the pond, he could face ten years in prison and a fine of $250,000.

In 2005 he was fined $25,000 and ordered top pay damages for breaking into three separate Universities and using their computers to launch a number of attacks, including those on Cisco.

What worried computer security experts was that with such a lot of Cisco source out in the cyber crime fraternity, the ability for hackers to penetrate various systems was dramatically increased.

Guest Article by Neil Camp