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To: pirate_200 who wrote (2354)	2/11/2000 2:57:00 PM
From: Lynn	Respond to of 10934

OT news item just posted to ML site: "CNN Says FBI Cyber-Attack Probe Focusing On University Of California PCs" FEB 11,2000 NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- The Federal Bureau of Investigation is zeroing in on undisclosed locations in California and Oregon in connection with a "cyber attack" on CNN.com, Cable News Network reported Friday. The network, a unit of Time Warner Inc. (TWX), cited sources close to the investigation as saying the FBI is hoping to obtain computers it believes were used in the attack. Investigators discovered that the computer system at the University of California at Santa Barbara was used in the attack, CNN said. The computers there sent out millions of messages that flooded CNN.com. It is likely that individual computers were used to program the UC computer system, the network said. CNN said its sources declined to identify the owners of the computers that were used, pointing out the computers may have been programmed without their knowledge. However, sources said the owners might emerge as suspects later, the network said. Wednesday, online brokerage E*Trade Group Inc. (EGRP) and technology news site ZDNet, a unit of Ziff Davis Inc. (ZDZ), became the latest victims of Internet attacks. Their sites were knocked out for more than an hour. The attacks began Monday against Yahoo! Inc's (YHOO) site, the largest independent Web site. They spread Tuesday to CNN.com and leading retailers Buy.com (BUYX), eBay (EBAY) and Amazon.com (AMZN). Investigations on the other attacks are proceeding, but this information only applies to the attack against CNN.com, CNN said. Meanwhile, shares of Network Associates Inc. (NETA), a major maker of software that helps companies protect computer networks against viruses and computer hackers, were higher in early afternoon trading. On Thursday, Network Associates unveiled a detector service to protect Internet companies from hackers linking networked computer systems in distributed "denial-of-service" attacks. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company also said its McAfee unit updated its VirusScan product to detect the "zombie" code that launches such denial-of-service attacks. In a denial-of-service attack, a person or group apparently hijacks servers and computers across the Internet, essentially putting them in a zombie-like state, and uses them to flood Web sites with access requests, making them inaccessible to legitimate online users. Copyright (c) 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

To: pirate_200 who wrote (2354)	2/11/2000 9:58:00 PM
From: kas1	Respond to of 10934

Really simple reason that keeping mission critical web-related data on a filer is more secure than keeping it on a general webserver: hackers can't find the filer, unless they do some pretty intensive portscanning in your domain range. Finding your webserver (assuming you don't outsource) is as easy as www.[you].com