Romanian hacker charged with breaching NASA computers

Bucharest (ANTARA News) - A young Romanian has been charged with hacking into NASA computers and causing more than 1.5 million dollars (1.1 million euros) of damage for the US space agency, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Victor Faur (26), from the western town of Arad, was also accused of breaking into the computers of the US navy and the Department of Energy between November 2005 and September 2006, a statement said.

Romanian police alerted NASA in July last year that its servers had been breached by unknown people based in Romania.

An ensuing probe, launched jointly by Romanian police and the FBI, led to Faur.

NASA had to rebuild its systems and scientists and engineers had to manually communicate with spacecraft, resulting in huge losses for NASA.

Faur, meanwhile, said in television interviews that his action was aimed at "proving that several computers are vulnerable to attack," and underlined that he had not tried to make any "material gains."

"I had neither modified nor erased the files, nor destroyed the communications systems," said Faur, who was formally put under investigation in December and has been barred from leaving the country.

An earlier indictment by the US Attorney`s Office charges Faur with leading a hacking group called the "WhiteHat Team," which broke into the systems because of their reputation of being among the most secure in the world, AFP reported.(*)

Bugs on Vista, Windows Can't Install Most USB Device Driver

When trying to install a new device on USB port (like a USB flash disk, mouse, printer, video card, etc.), Windows Vista report that there is “no driver found for you device”, Even by manually selecting the driver from CD or other storage device, you will still get the “no driver found…” error. This is a bug on Windows Vista that Bill Gates, from the first release Windows Vista until this end of June 2007 have not give solution.

This is caused by a corrupted INFCACHE.1 file. This file is hidden, has restricted access, and can be found in “c:\windows\inf”. This file stores the location of drivers and their INF files. You need to delete this file to fix the problem.

To delete this file, you have to set the security permissions of it to allow "Full Control" for the User Group Administrators or full control for your account. Here’s the complete how-to:

1. Open a Windows Explorer window (right click Start> Explore)
2. In the address bar, type c:\windows\inf and press Enter
3. Right click on the file INFCACHE.1
4. Select Properties
5. Click on the “Security” tab
6. Click “Edit” to edit permissions
7. Set to “Full Control” and click ok
8. Move or delete the file “INFCACHE.1″
9. Try to install the device again.

This can happen several times in a row, but repeat the steps needed to delete the file (“INFCACHE.1″) and try again. Eventually it will work.