A daily survey of the latest cybercrime news from around the world.
ZDNET: DoS Attacks Cripple White House Web Site 27-Jun-01 03:53:08 ET
Story Highlights:“The hacker attempt on the Whitehouse.gov address, which crashed the site, lasted from 11 a.m. until after 5 p.m. PDT Tuesday…”
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“The White House confirmed that the barrage of page requests created through the attack was ‘heavy enough to block most legitimate users…'”
ZDNET UK: Hacker Tracking Site Falls Prey to ThePike 27-Jun-01 07:22:29 ET
Story Highlights:“A well-known Web site that tracks defacements on other sites by hackers such as PoizonB0x was itself defaced yesterday by a hacker going under the name of ThePike…”
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“The administrators of Alldas.de acknowledged their vulnerability to hackers: ‘Nothing is 100 percent secure,’ they said in a statement, ‘and today we managed to realise that our security wasn’t as good as we thought…'”
ZDNET: Net Espionage Stirs Cold-War Tensions 27-Jun-01 03:53:08 ET
Story Highlights:“Fears of Cold War tensions are finding new life in cyberspace, as the threat of Internet espionage shifts the nuclear-age doctrine of ‘mutually assured destruction’ to that of mutually assured disruption…”
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“In one long-running operation, the subject of a U.S. spy investigation dubbed ‘Storm Cloud,’ hackers traced back to Russia were found to have been quietly downloading millions of pages of sensitive data, including one colonel’s entire e-mail inbox…”
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