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Date: 1998-08-14
MIT ge/hackt: John the Ripper wars
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Ganz offenbar hat hier eine/r Spezialist/in ein paar der
wichtigsten HiTech Unis in den USA gehackt & Megatonnen
Passwörter gesammelt. Die Spur des Verlangens nach "greater
access" führt zurück auf den alten Kontinent.
post/scrypt: Bei aller An/strengung zum Objektiven ist ein
klamm/heimliches "vive l'europe" nicht ganz ver/kneifbar.
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9:58 a.m. PDT Thursday, August 13, 1998 BERKELEY, Calif.
(AP) -- Using an Internet program called ``John the
Ripper,'' a hacker has broken into computer accounts at
universities and companies around the world to steal
encrypted passwords.
The FBI is investigating the case, in which 48,000 passwords
were decoded from a list of 186,000. Authorities believe the
hacker is operating from somewhere in Europe because the
first known case involved computers at European
universities.
>From there, the hacker reportedly broke into accounts at a
Silicon Valley company, an Internet service provider in
Indiana, the University of California at Berkeley, UCLA, the
California Institute of Technology, the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and Harvard University.
``The technology he was using is not sophisticated, but
what's interesting here is the scope,'' said Doug Tygar, a
computer expert at Carnegie Mellon University who will join
the UC Berkeley faculty this fall.
``I'm impressed by his persistence to keep something running
for that long,'' Tygar told the San Francisco Chronicle in a
story published today. ``The stamina to collect this number
of passwords is pretty awe-inspiring.''
The cyber intruder apparently did not seek out classified
information or break into government accounts, but trotted
the globe electronically for passwords in a quest for
greater access. He or she gained access to the Internet
through Telenordia, an Internet service provider in Sweden,
and left a computer trail through England, Denmark and South
Korea.
Full text
http://spyglass1.sjmercury.com/breaking/docs/043153.htm
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published on: 1998-08-14
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