FC: Aussies blame US military for cyberattack; US accuses Russia

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[Note two there are two different alleged incidents -- and I'd be hesitant
to believe either without more proof than anyone has offered publicly. --DBM]


> http://www.smh.com.au/news/9910/04/national/national10.html
>
> Australian Stock Exchange foils US hackers
> Sydney Morning Herald 04-Oct-99
>
> Computer hackers from a United States military installation tried to break
> into the Australian Stock Exchange's database, its managing director, Mr
> Richard Humphry, said yesterday.
>
> Mr Humphry said authorities were notified after the hackers from the US
> military installation tried to break into the site and "broke into another
> site to achieve that objective".


> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991006/tc/russia_usa_1.html
>
>               WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A major effort to pierce U.S.
> government and private-sector computer networks seems to have originated in
> Russia, a top U.S. law-enforcement officer told Congress Wednesday.
>
> Lifting the veil on an investigation he said had been under way for more
than a year, Michael Vatis of
> the Federal Bureau of Investigation said intruders had stolen
``unclassified but still-sensitive information
> about essentially defense technical research matters.''
>
> ``About the furthest I can go is to say the intrusions appear to originate
in Russia,'' said Vatis, who
> heads the FBI-led National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), a
bulwark against threats to the
> electronic lifelines of U.S. society.



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