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