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IP: Australian Stock Exchange Foils Hack From US Military Center
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Mon Oct 4 18:47:31 1999
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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:20:23 -0400
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>From http://asia.yahoo.com/headlines/041099/technology/939030660-137212.html
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Australian Stock Exchange Foils Hack From US Military Center
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, 1999 OCT 4 (NB)
By Adam Creed, Newsbytes.
Hackers traced to a US military installation attempted to break into the
Australian Stock Exchange's (ASX) computer database, according to local
media reports.Richard Humphry, managing director of the ASX, said the attack
failed and the ASX contacted the Australian Defence Department immediately,
speaking on television on Sunday. He was told that it was not an "official"
attempt by the US military to breach the system.
Humphry said there had been a number of attacks on the system, with
"amateurs trying fairly frequently" to gain access, although none had made
it past the first of the ASX system's multi-layered firewalls.
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