Anti-Hacking White Papers
Information Security in Higher Education
Overview On an evening in November, a computer “worm” program attacked the Internet. The attack continued for several days and infected as many as 6,000 machines. Taking advantage of widely known flaws in software frequently installed on UNIX systems and using a mechanism designed to simplify resource sharing in local area networks, the worm replicated uncontrollably, eventually overwhelming the processing capabilities of many infected machines until they failed completely. The cost of such an attack is difficult to estimate. Thousands of hours of system availability time were lost, and tens of thousands of hours were required to correct problems created by the attack.
| Publisher | EduCause | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | August 2003 | Downloads | 2 |
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