Forwarded From: Nelson Murilo <nelsonat_private> [http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/wired/story.htm l?s=z/reuters/980512/wired/stories/hackers_1.html] Tuesday May 12 3:14 PM EDT Russia thwarts hacker attacks of Yeltsin Web chat MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian state communications security service said it had prevented more than 20 hacking attempts into a computer which President Boris Yeltsin used during his first Internet chat, Interfax news agency said. It quoted a senior official with the Federal Agency for Government Communication and Information (FAPSI) as saying hackers had tried to destroy the computer server, apparently referring to the government computer that provided a Russian transcript of the exchanges between Yeltsin and a worldwide audience. Chris Donohue, who ran the half-hour chat session from the United States on the MSNBC Web site, said there had been no apparent assaults on the U.S. company's server, which organised the live English-language question and answer session. "Our server held up beautifully, no attacks were noticeable to our team," he said by telephone. Donohue said over 4,000 people joined the chat itself, but it could be viewed by more people. The FAPSI official said as many as 22,000 Internet users worldwide visited the chat servers. The session yielded little in the way of new insights into Moscow politics. But a handful of Web surfers who managed to personally ask Yeltsin their questions learned that the president felt in good shape, had never puffed a cigarette, owed his bouffant hairstyle to the women in his life not to Irish ancestry and that Russia was not ready for a woman president. FAPSI has said in the past that its lines are virtually impregnable to hacking due to high-tech anti-bugging devices and top-secret data encryption. Teenage hackers from a number of countries including Russia are held responsible for a recent assault on the U.S. Pentagon computer systems and other military computer networks. Copyright © 1998 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Repent Security Incorporated [www.repsec.com]
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