incidents from history

[Flavio Silva-3]

Hi all!

I want to know if someone can name the greatest incident of the
computer history, but not the Morris Worm. Some time ago I read
something about an incident called The Rising Sun, but now I'm not
sure about this name. It was a supposed intrusion in some MIT lab,
Harvard University, and some military facilities. Probably it was
executed by terrorists. I want to confirm all this.

Regards
--
Flavio A. Braga da Silva
Informatics Department
State University of Maringá (UEM)

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[Geo.-2]

> I want to know if someone can name the greatest incident of the
> computer history, but not the Morris Worm.

this one gets my vote.

http://www.allbusiness.com/technology/software-services-applications-interne
t/6980002-1.html

Geo.


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[Geoffrey J Gowey]

How about Sarah palin's email being put up on display?

Note: someone had to bring this one up.

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On Nov 29, 2008, at 10:48 AM, "Flavio Silva" <flavioabs@...>  
wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I want to know if someone can name the greatest incident of the
> computer history, but not the Morris Worm. Some time ago I read
> something about an incident called The Rising Sun, but now I'm not
> sure about this name. It was a supposed intrusion in some MIT lab,
> Harvard University, and some military facilities. Probably it was
> executed by terrorists. I want to confirm all this.
>
> Regards
> --
> Flavio A. Braga da Silva
> Informatics Department
> State University of Maringá (UEM)
>
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[Dario Ciccarone (dciccaro)]

Never heard of that one. Sounds great for a movie plot, though - it has computers, the MIT, the military, terrorists. You just need to add some romance, guns and a couple mentions to the economy and will touch on every issue that's on the front page of all papers in the world these days ;)

Another classic would be Mitnick vs Shimomura - http://www.gulker.com/ra/hack/tsattack.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Flavio Silva [mailto:flavioabs@...]
> Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 1:48 PM
> To: incidents@...
> Subject: incidents from history
>
> Hi all!
>
> I want to know if someone can name the greatest incident of the
> computer history, but not the Morris Worm. Some time ago I read
> something about an incident called The Rising Sun, but now I'm not
> sure about this name. It was a supposed intrusion in some MIT lab,
> Harvard University, and some military facilities. Probably it was
> executed by terrorists. I want to confirm all this.
>
> Regards
> --
> Flavio A. Braga da Silva
> Informatics Department
> State University of Maringá (UEM)
>
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[Jay Dyson]

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On Sat, 29 Nov 2008, Flavio Silva wrote:

> I want to know if someone can name the greatest incident of the computer
> history, but not the Morris Worm. Some time ago I read something about
> an incident called The Rising Sun, but now I'm not sure about this name.
> It was a supposed intrusion in some MIT lab, Harvard University, and
> some military facilities. Probably it was executed by terrorists. I want
> to confirm all this.

I'd have to say that, in terms of claimed monetary and operational losses,
Nimda and Code Red qualify, as do the Melissa, ILoveYou and Sircam
automated intrusion agents.  However, no real connection to any terrorist
organization has been (nor can be) made with respect to these attacks.

As for any "Rising Sun" incident, I cannot recall anything remotely
approximating the scenario described.  Of course, we're now seeing a
wholesale prohibition on thumb drives across the DoD and NASA, it seems
that serious enough incidents have occurred to warrant an update in
policies and procedures.

On the topic of "cyber-terrorists," I've spoken my mind on that issue over
six years ago in a keynote I gave at Toorcon[*].

- -Jay

* http://www.treachery.net/articles_papers/tutorials/the_myth_of_cyber-terrorism/

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[Tony Maupin]

http://www.sans.org/resources/idfaq/solar_sunrise.php

You are probably referencing the "Solar Sunrise" case.

In February 1998, hackers launched an attack against the Pentagon and
MIT in what the Department of Defense called "the most organized and
systematic attack to date."

Tony Maupin

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Flavio Silva <flavioabs@...> wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I want to know if someone can name the greatest incident of the
> computer history, but not the Morris Worm. Some time ago I read
> something about an incident called The Rising Sun, but now I'm not
> sure about this name. It was a supposed intrusion in some MIT lab,
> Harvard University, and some military facilities. Probably it was
> executed by terrorists. I want to confirm all this.
>
> Regards
> --
> Flavio A. Braga da Silva
> Informatics Department
> State University of Maringá (UEM)
>
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[moto kawasaki]

Hi,

> Another classic would be Mitnick vs Shimomura - http://www.gulker.com/ra/hack/tsattack.html

By the way, this Shimomura-san's father got the Norbel prize this
year. Congratulations!

moto kawasaki <moto@...>

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[Jason Chambers-3]

Flavio Silva wrote:
>
> I want to know if someone can name the greatest incident of the
> computer history, but not the Morris Worm.


As far as "greatest" reported incidents go, I regard this event to be
high caliber:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_telephone_tapping_case_2004-2005

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jul07/5280


As well as this report:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-509186/CIA-launches-hunt-international-hackers-threatening-hold-cities-ransom-shutting-power.html


--Jason

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