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Re: Chinese hackers plan week-long attack on American websites an d ne tworks

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn McMahon)
Sat Apr 21 07:47:02 2001

Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 07:43:29 -0400
From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:34:02PM -0400, Steve Goldstein wrote:
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> Sad to say, but about a month ago, Friends and Partners was hacked to=20
> death. Not sure where the hacker was, but evidence points to a=20
> non-U.S. origin.   It took the SysAdmin an entire week, almost=20
> around-the-clock, to re-construct it.  It now runs on MacOS X rather=20
> than Linux.

That's fascinating, but their page describing their setup says that they've
been running Solaris on the frontend, with the database generated on Macs,
since 1998.

Where'd you get your information?


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