Internet Attack Called Broad and Long Lasting by Investigators

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>]

SAN FRANCISCO, May 9 - The incident seemed alarming enough: a breach
of a Cisco Systems network in which an intruder seized programming
instructions for many of the computers that control the flow of
the Internet.

Now federal officials and computer security investigators have
acknowledged that the Cisco break-in last year was only part of a
more extensive operation - involving a single intruder or a small
band, apparently based in Europe - in which thousands of computer
systems were similarly penetrated.


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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/technology/10cisco.html?hp&ex=1115784000&en=eeb27da2e75ec022&ei=5094&partner=homepage


                --Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb