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Re: CIA Fears UmpTeen InfoNukes

On Wed, 26 Jun 1996, Mike McNally wrote:

> By the way, there was a thing in the Yahoo/Reuters feed about "attacks"
> on DoD computers; apparently British police arrested a "hacker" the
> other day.  Anyway, the article included a claim that there have been
> 250,000 attempted break-ins on DoD computers over the past year.
> 
> Does anybody know how they count that?

    Any time that someone doesn't successfully log into their computer, 
pings their site, fingers their site, does a nslookup on their site or 
anything else that constitutes an "attack."

                    Bruce M. * [email protected]
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