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[FYI] Cyber anarchists fail to rock City
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- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 21:50:55 +0200
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Posted 01/12/99 1:01pm by Tim Richardson
Cyber anarchists fail to rock City
The City of London escaped a major cyber attack yesterday despite
fears that the financial centre was the focus of an orchestrated
assault by disaffected hackers.
While anarchists demonstrating against capitalism trashed Seattle and
parts of London, a similar onslaught against computer systems failed
to materialise. However, there were isolated reports of cyber
vandalism and incidents where sites were overloaded with users.
Kevin Black, sales and marketing director at Internet Security
Systems (ISS) UK, would not disclose exactly which companies were
targeted. But he did confirm that there was some online activity
although nothing on the scale of similar demonstrations earlier this
year.
"There were some incidents of cyber vandalism, rather than cyber
crime, and on Monday night we experienced some probing attacks,"
said Black.
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