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WorldViewInvestigators Follow Internet Trail to New Victim in Hacker AttackAired February 12, 2000 - 8:00 p.m. ETTHIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. ANDRIA HALL, CNN ANCHOR: We begin in the United States, where federal investigators are linking a second California university to this week's massive computer hacking attack. The University of California at Santa Barbara tells CNN one of its servers was used in the attack on the CNN.com Web site. CNN's Greg LeFevre reports investigators are following the hackers' trail of Internet evidence. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) GREG LEFEVRE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The web of victim computers spreads across California's academic landscape. The latest: a remote marine research campus operated by Stanford University near Monterey, California. STEPHEN HANSEN, STANFORD UNIVERSITY: I am glad that we did find it quickly and were able to deal with it in short order. LEFEVRE: About 50 of the Stanford computers were fooled into helping route the hacker signals across the Internet. The denial-of- service attacks on the Web's most heavily used sites include eBay, Amazon, CNN.com, Buy and Yahoo!. Hackers plant a tiny program into the hacked computer and later order it to throw millions of requests at the Web site, blocking anyone else from using it. (on camera): Universities are in a tough spot. Schools want professors and students to have easy access to these machines to share research information. That free access also makes these systems sitting ducks for hackers. (voice-over): Stanford joins University of California Santa Barbara as victims of so-called "zombie computers," unmanned computers perhaps unknowingly slaves to the command of hackers. KEVIN SCHMIDT, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: If you go to a university, you have many different constituent groups. You've got different research groups, you've got people who are here for one year, you've got visiting research faculty. LEFEVRE: None of the denial-of-service attacks penetrated the Web sites. Not so at RealNames, where the company says this week a hacker broke into its files that contained credit card numbers. RealNames customers use software that speeds up Web surfing. As many as 15,000 credit cards were involved. The company alerted its customers and the credit card companies. Sources tell CNN the denial-of-service hacks were not sophisticated, but they were done using ready-made programs, that with so many attacks, one of them is bound to leave traces. Greg LeFevre, CNN, San Francisco. (END VIDEOTAPE) TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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