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To: David who wrote (13944)	6/17/1999 12:29:00 PM
From: David	Respond to of 26039

Another network security problem . . . from CMP news today: "Russians Hack U.S. Printer "Welcome back, Cold War. It looks as though the Russians might be up to their old tricks, if the infiltration of the network at the Space and Naval Systems Warfare Center (Spa War) in San Diego, Calif., is any indication. "The incursion was discovered by Ron Broersma, a Spa War network operations engineer, when a local network print job took an unusually long time. Monitoring tools revealed a file had been hijacked from the printing queue, sent to a server in Russia, and finally back to the Spa War printer. Broersma concluded the network intruder had hacked into the printer, and reconfigured routing tables on equipment elsewhere on the Spa War network to ship the file to Russia. ". . . He said he secured Spa War's printers after the attack by resetting router filters, and by eliminating older printers that, he said, are especially vulnerable. "It's . . . not known who the Russian server belonged to, or what information was compromised. "Networked printers are known to be especially vulnerable to hacking attacks. They have their own IP addresses, and they run various standard protocols that can be exploited. To make matters worse, printer vendors haven't added any strong security features to their products that would protect them against break-ins." ================ Teenage hackers? I don't think so. This should really scare the US military.

To: David who wrote (13944)	6/17/1999 12:35:00 PM
From: brad greene	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26039

David, Wendell award for you....nice find. Details emerges on the IDT/MOT fingerprint product . . . from today's Wall Street Journal (B6): "Consolidating research has made it possible for Motorola to tweak a single innovation for several products. A new semiconductor for sending video signals, for example, works in both an experimental wireless phone and a set-top box for interactive TV. The chip's key elements are also used in a device for fingerprint identification on computer keyboards, soon to be a product, that eliminates the need for passwords." bg