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...accused computer hacker who infiltrated the computer networks at Harvard, Amherst College, Bowdoin College and several businesses in the United States pleaded guilty last Monday to four federal computer hacking charges...
According to a court report read at the change of plea hearing by U.S. Attorney Donald K. Stern, the computer was shut down for two weeks in order to repair the damage caused by the hacker...
...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...
...Eliot residents were affected. Thenetwork is broken into "sub-nets," smaller,isolated sections, and only those users on thesame sub-net as the hacker had their securitycompromised...
Osterberg said that the University is takingsteps to identify the hacker, but stressed thatthe primary goal was to re-establish networksecurity...