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HACK ATTACKS ON NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 10:55:38 -0400
I am glad they are "struggling". Everyone knew this would happen and have known for years that the net was vulnerable. It was cheaper to hope it would not happen. Dave HACK ATTACKS ON NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE The August 17 Chronicle reports new hacker attacks aimed at the Internet infrastructure. Unlike the password-sniffing attacks that have been written about in the press recently, these new assaults are on the routers that get data from one place on the net to another. Computer-security experts at CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) Coordination Center in Pittsburgh and elsewhere say the attacks are very dangerous and they are struggling to find ways to protect the network infrastructure before hackers manage to disrupt traffic that is headed to a particular network or institution. (Chronicle of Higher Education 8/17/94)
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