Net security case focuses on 16-year-old

A 16-year-old in Uppsala, Sweden, that is. The case in question involves a network security breach and stolen computer code at Cisco Systems last year which was "part of a more extensive operation ... in which thousands of computer systems were similarly penetrated," the New York Times reports. Computer-security and US federal investigators only recently "acknowledged that the Cisco break-in was only part of a more extensive operation involving a single intruder or a small band, apparently based in Europe." The Wall Street Journal reports that "the stolen code was a portion of the operating system for Cisco's routers, which direct most of the traffic across the Internet." To parents it might be notable that the nearly year-long investigation, involving Net-connected computers at in seven countries, "is being treated as a juvenile case."