Expert witness rebuts hacking suspect's defense

An expert witness in the case of a teenager accused of accidentally launching a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on a major U.S. port said on Thursday there was no indication that evidence had been planted on the suspect's hard drive.

The defense counsel for Aaron Caffrey, who is on trial at Southwark Crown Court, had said that his client's computer could have been compromised by a hacker who had altered the system's log files--which record how the machine is being used--and staged an attack from the teenager's computer. Read the full story on silicon.com.