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Swede Teen Uses ssh to Invade US Military/Government Computers

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Posted by badanov 2005-05-10 08:50|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 16yr old swede teen arrested

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-05-10 11:35|| 2005-05-10 11:35|| Front Page Top

#2 The "attacks" are on public websites, nothing classified or even important. Its main effect was a denial of service by trashing the functions of the router. The "theft" was probably someone downloading the binary image of operating system file, IOS.

Posted by OldSpook 2005-05-10 11:47|| 2005-05-10 11:47|| Front Page Top

#3 No need to crack Cisco's network to steal the source code for IOS. I'm sure it's readily available from Huawei employees.

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2005-05-10 11:59|| 2005-05-10 11:59|| Front Page Top

#4 In the Cisco case, the passwords to Cisco computers were sent from a compromised computer by a legitimate user unaware of the Trojan horse. The intruder captured the passwords and then used them to enter Cisco's computers

In my experience, getting a hold of a login is a case in 99% of successful intrusion, all the cracker has to do is then escalate privileges. Brute force attacks are usually spotted and defanged pretty fast.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-05-10 20:56|| 2005-05-10 20:56|| Front Page Top

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