Information Security News: Hackers fail to ground US Air Force

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By James Middleton [25-03-2002]

Network holds out against 125,000 attacks 

Hackers were unsuccessful in their attack on a US Air Force network
last week, despite hammering the network in "one of the most
orchestrated" attacks seen by the Air Force in the past six months.  

Officials said that over 125,000 unsuccessful attempts were made to
access the network at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base on Friday in
"a concerted and directed attack".

Lieutenant General Richard Reynolds said: "I don't know whether they
wanted to get in and just get information, or whether they wanted to
get in and cripple our network."

But given the projects running at the base, the hackers may well have
had sinister designs.

The base houses one of the US government's biggest supercomputers, the
Major Shared Resource Centre, and plays host to project management for
large weapons such as the B-2 Stealth bomber.



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