| CERT, a federally financed computer
security organization formerly known
as the Computer Emergency
Response Team, said today that it
was no longer seeing an unusual
number of reports of attacks. From
Monday through Wednesday, service
on several leading Web sites,
including those of the Yahoo portal,
the E*Trade Group brokerage firm,
the eBay auction company and
Time Warners CNN.com news
site, were disrupted and in some
cases halted by assaults involving
dozens or more computers flooding
them with data feeds. |
| NEW YORK -- With top Internet companies shuddering under a wave of
hacker attacks, Internet security companies, job-hungry consultants and
even insurance companies swooped in on Wednesday to cash in on the scare. |
| But security experts said that Web sites and the Internet in general
would remain vulnerable for the near future because so many organizations
were failing to take steps to prevent their computers from being used by
vandals to initiate the attacks. |
| Several months ago I purchased the following security equipment with the
intention of installing it myself in my office and warehouse. Shortly after
this, I sold the business and left the alarm equipment in storage. I
currently have no need for it and want to cash out. Im willing to sell
everything at 50% at the current dealer prices. This list below was
comprised from calls made to security dealers and asking the wholesale
single unit price. Please make me an offer on what you can use. You can
get detailed information on the following equipment from Home Automation
Systems http://www.smarthome.com/securmap.html |
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Source: New York Times (NYT)
Author: MATT RICHTEL with JOEL BRINKLEY
Title: Evidence Suggests Web Attacks Were Work of More Than One
Group
Source Date: February 11, 2000
Resource Type: News Article
Description/Keywords: Computer Hackers, Hacker Attacks, Investigation,
Hacker Attack Sources, Website Security Issues
URL: Listed Below Article Summary
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