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01net- le 30 octobre 2000
Microsoft débranche les connections à distance de ses employés
fin d'éviter un nouvel incident, Microsoft a décidé de fermer les 39000 connections à distance de ses employés dans le monde. Une première étape pour améliorer une sécurité
transfert- le 30 octobre 2000
Qui en veut à Microsoft ?
Des pirates auraient volé le code source de logiciels sur le réseau interne du QG de l’entreprise, à Redmond. Ils ont pu se connecter douze jours d’affilée avant d’être repérés.
ZDnet - le 28 octobre 2000
Des intrus “visitent” l'Intranet de Microsoft
Microsoft a reconnu le 27 octobre avoir reçu la visite de pirates informatiques plutôt doués, au point de s'être introduit - propablement depuis plusieurs mois - dans son réseau informatique interne.
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The breaking news
News.com - October 29 2000
Microsoft says it knew of hackers
The software giant says a hacker had high-level access to its computer system for 12 days--not up to five weeks, as the company had first reported--and that the company monitored the illegal activity the entire time. (News.com)
The Industry Standard - October 27 2000
Microsoft Gets Hacked
The software giant confirms that crackers gained access to source code for a product under
development.
In Denial
The Register - October 27 2000
Redmond strives to cram Great MS Hack back in box
The software giant confirms that crackers gained access to source code for a product under
development.
Theories and Conspiracies
The Register - October 31 2000
How you hack into Microsoft: a step by step guide
It's easy, watch....
Financial Times - October 29 2000
Industrial espionage likely motive for Microsoft attack
Security experts believe it increasingly likely that industrial espionage was behind the recent hacker attack on Microsoft's computer network during which a hacker examined blueprints for future Microsoft products.
Wired - October 27 2000
How MS Helped With Own Hack
Qaz is the name of the worm that was used to penetrate Microsoft's computer system, during which hackers were able to view Windows source code. Ironically, Qaz was written with a Microsoft program.
Internet News - October 27 2000
Microsoft Hack May Not Be Malicious
A knowing hack or unknowing hack? That is the question.
Opinions
MSNBC - October 31 2000
Mitnick on Microsoft Hacker discusses Microsoft break-in
Mitnick was skeptical about some claims surrounding the Microsoft attack, including one that Microsoft itself was watching the hacker. When something as important as source code is involved, companies are less likely to monitor a hacker’s activities than to kick the person out of the network, he said.
Internet News - October 30 2000
Does Microsoft Have Egg On Its Face?
Just when did Microsoft know about the recent hacker who monkeyed around on its network? This story considers the angles.
News.com - October 30 2000
Microsoft unable to catch hacker on its own
Executives admit company computer experts were unable to track the infiltrator despite more than a week's worth of electronic cat-and-mouse.
The Register - October 30 2000
MS blocks staff dial-in access after 'minor' hack
If you're safe now, why cut off 39,000 employees for the weekend? (The Register)
The Larger Picture
Upside Today - October 30 2000
Microsoft ought to know better
[...] The real damage here has nothing to do with what the hackers saw, it's the fact that they got in at all. If Microsoft were a bank it wouldn't be just any bank, it would be Fort Knox. After all, this is the company that makes the software that the rest of us rely on for our own productivity and security.
News.com - October 29 2000
Hack attacks a global concern
Although no one knows the scope or depth of the break-in , experts say it could have profound
consequences for Microsoft--and all companies that use its software. The incident, which may involve organized crime or software piracy groups, could also shape legal guidelines for international cybercrimes.
MSNBC - October 27 2000
Microsoft network break-in seen taking hacking to a new level
While the Melissa and Love Bug viruses infected millions of Internet users around the world, in the end, neither caused serious lasting damage. But computer-security experts have long feared what a clever hacker with a more stealthy virus planted inside a company might be able to accomplish. Those fears are now reality, and the successful attack on Microsoft is being called “the biggest hacking case ever,” a prominent virus investigator said Friday.
Back in Time
BBC - October 27 2000
Hacking: A history
The original meaning of the word "hack" was born at MIT, and originally meant an elegant, witty or inspired way of doing almost anything. A brief guide to the history of hacking from Newonline's internet reporter Mark Ward.
Humour
The Register - October 28 2000
MS hacking scandal: details of stolen items
FBI agents based in St Petersburg have identified the ten most critical items appropriated in last week's hack of Redmond. "They can be yours, comrade - sorry, buddy - for the sum of ten million roubles or the equivalent in potatoes," special agent Eliot 'Sergei' Ness, told The Reg.
That list of stolen items in full:
1) Bill Gates' credit card details
3) Source code for Bob
3) Cheat list for Solitaire
4) Online application form for donations from the Bill and Melinda foundation
5) Wish list for enhancements to MS-DOS 3.3
6) Complete set of MP3s of Steve Ballmer rocking out
7) Original code for Linux
8) Discarded Office Assistants including Penfield the crazy Judge and Linus the toad
9) Contents of Bill's desktop trash folders for the last five years
10) Contact details for Bill's personal stylist
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 "We were aware of it immediately when it began. We tracked it in real time, knew what the person was doing" -- A Microsoft spokesman speaking to the WSJ
"We realized the intrusion had grown to the level that warranted bringing in the FBI." -- Microsoft spokesman Rick Miller speaking to News.com
"We start seeing these new accounts being created, but that could be an anomaly of the system. After a day or two, we realized it was someone hacking into the system." -- Microsoft spokesman Rick Miller speaking to News.com
"It's impossible to say with absolute certainty that (source code) file has not been copied," -- Simon Perry, vice president of security solutions at Computer Associates International to News.com
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