Hackers Try to Sabotage Russia-U.S. Emergency Exercises

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http://www.russiatoday.com/news.php3?id=201331

MOSCOW, Sep 21, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) Computer hackers have
tried to sabotage joint US-Russian exercises aimed at tackling major
natural disasters, the Russian ministry of emergency situations said
Thursday, quoted by the ITAR-TASS news agency.

Hackers based in the United States tried to break into the Russian
ministry's database programs but were blocked immediately by
information technology experts.

The exercises, designed to develop ways of cooperating and sharing
information during simulations of an earthquake and an oil slick, are
being held simultaneously in Moscow, Russia's Far East and Hawaii.

The database was fully operational again Thursday and the exercises
were continuing. ((c) 2000 Agence France Presse)

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