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he attacks didn't use any new techniques to infiltrate the research centers. The attackers typically gained access to one computer on the network by attempting various common passwords or by exploiting a vulnerability that hadn't been patched on the system. By cracking that system's password file, and because users typically use the same password on multiple systems, the attackers were able to leverage their control of one system to gain access to others in the same network. The technique could also be used to gain access to another supercomputing center's systems, because many researchers have accounts on more than one supercomputing network.

This Seems to be more an education issue
than Patch Management Don't YA think!

And also the Nature of the place that it
happened at !
SDSC's Dwyer said the research centers are reviewing their security and educating researchers on good password selection, but there is only so much academic institutions can do, because their systems are open by design.

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Attacks more widespread then initially thought  ShadeTree | 04/15/04
More troubling than this?  Jose Jimenez | 04/15/04
Not a very intelligent response  ShadeTree | 04/15/04
What attack?  Jose Jimenez | 04/15/04
Deeply flawed...  ShadeTree | 04/15/04
Windows is deeply flawed  voska | 04/15/04
I don't think shadetree was attacking linux  Monkey_MCSE | 04/15/04
YEAH it is  cancelled@... | 04/15/04
And my response is labeled "Not Intelligent"..  Jose Jimenez | 04/15/04
Linux patch management  Yagotta B. Kidding | 04/15/04
WAKE UP CALL FOR PATCHING ON LINUX  cancelled@... | 04/15/04
Don't you read?  Martin Marvinski | 04/15/04
RE: Don't you read  cancelled@... | 04/15/04
Oh - great!!  quietLee | 04/15/04
Not Patch Management  thomasmac | 04/16/04
Same thing under Windows ...  wackoae | 04/15/04
RE:Same thing under Windows ...  cancelled@... | 04/15/04
Windows patches are cosmetic ....  wackoae | 04/15/04
so you are saying  V Sanders | 04/16/04
Nice try  jalenhunter | 04/16/04
one problem with that thought  Monkey_MCSE | 04/15/04
Still ROFLMAO  Loverock Davidson | 04/15/04
Grammatical correction  tic swayback | 04/15/04
Likewise Solaris?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 04/15/04
Another free lunch horror story...............  TheTruthGiver | 04/15/04
Message has been deleted.  MkIIISupra | 04/16/04
Talk is cheap  sfuertes@... | 04/12/05
maybe linux should have a once a month  V Sanders | 04/16/04

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