Word: breaches
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...resident, who wished to remain anonymous, first noticed the breach, which had occurred earlier in the day, on Sunday night...
...hacker infiltrated the computer of an Eliot House resident Sunday morning and installed a program that enabled him to gather the user names and passwords of numerous other Eliot residents, officials said. The breach required about 100 users to undergo a "forced re-authentication" process...
...resident was running Linux at the time of the breach, which is a free alternate version of Unix popular with students and with hackers...
...resident stopped the packet sniffer program Sunday night and notified FAS Computer Services Monday morning. In turn, Computer Services then ordered the re-authentication process. Any Eliot residents who were logged on to the same portion of the network as the hacker received an explanatory note explaining the breach the next time they telnetted to the FAS network...
...nature of the Internet, it'ssometimes difficult to precisely pinpoint theoriginal attacker. It's very early in the processright now to know exactly where it will lead.Obviously, in a situation like this, the primarygoal is to stop the security breach, and theninvestigate," he said...