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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 |
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133t haXX0r: John Markoff has a front page NYT story on an as yet unidentified hacker (a 16-year-old Swede is a leading suspect) who, among other things, stole router passwords and programming instructions from Cisco, hacked the TeraGrid, NASA, White Sands, JPL, U.C. Berkeley, University of Minnesota and Uppsala University among other sites. In one 2-day period, security investigators monitoring the University of Minnesota's network watched as the hacker attacked 100 systems - gaining root on 50.
The intruder often installed a Trojan, in this case a modified version of SSH - the secure shell program that has replaced Telnet as the tool of choice for remote administration and file transfer - which captured log-ins and passwords. The hacker, who called himself Stakkata when he wiped out the email of a Berkeley researcher after she called him a 'quaint hacker' in an email to an admin, is in the custody of his parents. Shades of Kevin Mitnick and Hackers. Speaking of 133t, check out the hilarious translation of a cease and desist into 133t... |
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