"UK police have arrested a man on suspicion of stealing source code from networking giant Cisco. The 20 year-old was arrested following Metropolitan Police Computer Crime Unit raids in Manchester and Derbyshire on 3 September. He was questioned on suspicion of offences against the UK's Computer Misuse Act in connection with the May theft of Cisco source and released pending further police enquiries," says the Register.
IT World has more details:
"The arrest marks a major breakthrough in the case, which involves the posting of more than 800M bytes of source code from Cisco's Internetwork Operating System (IOS) to a Russian Web site in May.
"IOS is a proprietary operating system that runs on much of the networking hardware that Cisco makes.
"Malicious hackers made off with code for versions 12.3 of IOS after the thief compromised a Sun Microsystems Inc. server on Cisco's network, then briefly posted a link to the source code files on a file server belonging to the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, according to Alexander Antipov, a security expert at Positive Technologies, a security consulting company in Moscow."
