[iwar] Historical posting
From: Fred Cohen
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Date: Mon, Jan 1, 1999
From: Fred Cohen
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Subject: [iwar] Historical posting
Cracking, spamming and spreading viruses: Each is a means
to disrupt an enemy's computer systems, and each has been
employed by whiz kids, maybe even by governments, in
recent international disputes. Especially in Asia,
computer nerds have nudged their way to the front line
this year, arguing that the Internet is a potent weapon.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/30-10-99/index_as9668.html
Pager hoax blamed on hacker
Authorities now know the cause of a pesky pager problem in
Oklahoma. MetroCall says a hacker broke into its paging system
yesterday morning and sent out a page that snowballed into dozens
more around the state. The pages went off for more than ten minutes.
One of the two dozen numbers sent out in the pages belonged to the
Cardiac Central Monitoring Unit at Presbyterian Hospital. It was
flooded with calls all morning from pager owners, calling to find
out who paged them. MetroCall says the situation has been remedied.
FC