art@pilikia.pegasus.com (Art Neilson) (03/20/90)
The following news article is from this morning's Honolulu Advertiser, dated MONDAY March 19, 1990 (On the Global page, section A for local folk). What, do we have a another hacker on our hands ? Anyone know anything about this thing ??? ROGUE PROGRAM RUNNING AMOK IN COMPUTER NET NEW YORK - A rogue computer program that steals electronic documents, user passwords and erases files has been winding its way through a nationwide computer network previously plagued in 1988, according to a published report. The New York Timesreports in today's editions that a computer hacker has devised a program that infiltrated corporations, non-classified military installations, government laboratories and several universities. Government computer security teams have been unable to trace the source of the illegal program. The computer network is Internet, a worldwide collection of computer systems that links corporations, government projects and universities together. Unidentified investigators told the Times that the latest hacker has entered dozens of systems, including those of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Digital Equipment Corporation, Harvard University, Boston University and the University of Texas. -- Arthur W. Neilson III | ARPA: art@pilikia.pegasus.com Bank of Hawaii Tech Support | UUCP: uunet!ucsd!nosc!pegasus!pilikia!art
bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) (03/20/90)
In article <1990Mar19.185147.4857@pilikia.pegasus.com> art@pilikia.pegasus.com (Art Neilson) writes: >The following news article is from this morning's Honolulu Advertiser, >dated MONDAY March 19, 1990 (On the Global page, section A for local folk). >What, do we have a another hacker on our hands ? A. We've got a couple hundred thousand hackers on our hands and/or machines; the question should be "do we have another criminal on our network?" B. The AP reports in the Boston Globe came with editorial embellishments (enclosed in [] after the AP text) that indicated that the Globe had talked to people at Harvard who confirmed breakins. C. CERT's issued a warning of illegal-entry attempts but a mild disclaimer of the newspaper articles as written, which are buggy (what else? :-), containing incorrect terms for the activity. --Blair "D. Who was that masked man? I wanted to charge him for his blocks and cycles..."