NYU-Poly professor Nasir Memon, director of the Information Systems and Internet Securitylaboratory, says the goal is to teach aggressive tactics beyond the classroom, while staying inside the boundaries of the law.
Federal investigators had reason to believe that the security breach may have happened at Los Alamos, a laboratory with a history of lax security practices.
Shortly after publishing their findings together with the Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySys) in Budapest, the Guardian ran with it on its website, citing the reports findings that said miniduke was still active on government computers in countries like Portugal, Ireland and Belgium.