Re: NYT: Internet attack called broad and long lasting

2005-05-10 Thread Fred Heutte
NYT: The crucial element in the password thefts that provided access at Cisco and elsewhere was the intruder's use of a corrupted version of a standard software program, SSH. The program is used in many computer research centers for a variety of tasks, ranging from administration of rem

NYT: Internet attack called broad and long lasting

2005-05-09 Thread Sean Donelan
Internet Attack Called Broad and Long Lasting by Investigators By JOHN MARKOFF and LOWELL BERGMAN Published: May 10, 2005 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 computer