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...makings of a headline news story. A hacker had supposedly broken into the grading system for an MIT biology class and changed the grades of 22 students...
There were warning signs. Back in December the FBI and a number of private security firms began detecting countless dormant daemons cropping up on servers across the country. Scan yourselves with detection software, urged the hacker trackers. Evidently not enough sites did. That changed after the attack; downloads of the Feds' scanning tool shot up from 170 on Monday to 4,223 on Thursday...
Case in point: John Vranesevich, founder of hacker-watch website AntiOnline.com seen by many hackers as something of a Benedict Arnold. So loathed is he that AntiOnline is an almost constant target for DOS attacks (in one of its more entertaining features, the site lets you see who's attacking it, and how, in real time). While the Feds were still holding press conferences, AntiOnline had already compiled a perp-profile sheet. The attacks, it says, were committed by a cell of three to six hackers--most likely teenagers, most likely male. "All DOS attacks have been perpetrated by more...
...seeing the actions of apparent vandals--not hackers--who are using tools that hackers developed. No hacker I've ever heard of would do anything remotely resembling these attacks. I mean, it's not as though they have to "get root" on Yahoo's servers to do these things. Unless these people are extremely skilled, they'll be caught quite quickly. If these actions have economic gain as their motive, the perpetrators may have the resources to avoid arrest much longer...