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FYI: Edupage excerpt of a WSJ article. - paul >Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:18:14 -0400 (EDT) >From: Edupage Editors <[email protected]> >To: "EDUCOM Edupage Mailing List" <[email protected]> >Subject: Edupage, 12 September 1996 > >CRACKER ATTACK PARALYZES PANIX >Repeated attacks by a computer cracker have virtually shut down New York's >Public Access Networks Corp., better known as Panix. The attacks have >overwhelmed the computers' capacity to respond to requests for an >"electronic handshake" by sending as many as 150 bogus requests a second. >"This is the first major attack of a kind that I believe to be the final >Internet security problem," says a Lucent Technologies Internet security >expert, who says he "has been waiting" for just such an event. Internet >computers have no quick way of distinguishing these bogus requests from real >ones, and even when security software is upgraded to ease the problem, the >crackers could respond with even more intense assaults. "There's going to >be the usual arms race," predicts the Lucent security expert, between >improved security measures and crackers' ability to disable them. (Wall >Street Journal 12 Sep B1) > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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