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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.''
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