Word: password
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Communications Network. The teenager began roaming through the New York area of the national system that ties more than 1200 computers together into a setup open to about 150,000 paying customers. Accessing systems almost at random, the student gave the name set of standard answers to demands for password identification from the large computers on the network--hello, test, sysop--ht might type, as his screens filled with logos from systems thousands of miles away. Finally he hit the jackpot, Instead of a flat "password invalid" message the screen filled with additional information: how to open files, change...
...least two occasions, causing the system that monitors and plans patient treatment to close down entirely. They also added personal touches to the machine. Spurred by the movie Wargames that had just opened at theatres across the Midwest, they programmed the Sloan-Kettering computer to respond to the password "Joshua," just like in the film. On a different computer, they caused the system to respond to the password with another War Games line: "Would you like a nice game of chess, Dr. Falken...
...code was changed by TRW as soon as it learned of the security breach, and it was not known how much damage, if any, had been done by unauthorized use of credit information. The potential was immense. Using the password, plus other easily available information, a person could display anyone's credit history to obtain credit-card numbers. Those could be used to order merchandise by mail...
...Information Services in Orange, Calif., the largest credit-reporting agency in the U.S., keeps credit histories of some 90 million Americans. Access to its files is gained with a computer password, actually a number code. Last week TRW officials confirmed that an account password had been filched from one of its creditor subscribers, a West Coast Sears store. It was then posted on so-called electronic bulletin boards, which almost any computer enthusiast can hook into through phone lines...
After breaking into the UCLA computer system, Austin was able to find the password to the "Advanced Research projects Agency Network" which holds accounts only for authorized UCLA scientists doing research for government agencies, including the Defence Department, he added...