http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/FRI/IN/hack.2.html Paris, Friday, April 2, 1999 Hackers Failing, NATO Says By John Schwartz (Washington Post Service) WASHINGTON - The digital harassment waged by Yugoslav hackers against NATO has not compromised any sensitive computer networks, alliance officials said, and the NATO web site appeared to be operating normally Thursday. NATO acknowledged Web site problems Wednesday and described them as more of a nuisance than a real threat. ''We have been dealing with some hackers in Belgrade who have hacked into our Web site and caused line saturation of the server,'' said Jamie Shea, a NATO spokesman. That means that rogue computer users are sending a lot of messages and computer commands into NATO's computers, said Carlo Tomad, a NATO network specialist in Brussels. At no time, however, have sensitive computer networks been entered, and no files or programs have been corrupted, Mr. Tomad said. ''It's not hacking at all.'' Yugoslav hackers have also sent at least a dozen computer viruses into NATO's networks, he said. But the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's virus protection software caught the programs before they became a problem, and the system has not been compromised, Mr. Tomad said. NATO computer network specialists have been able to filter out messages from the offending computers and clean the viruses out of the network. ''It's not dangerous,'' he said. ''But it's really inconvenient.'' -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Hacker News Network [www.hackernews.com]
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