17th December 2000 Archive

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• FBI hacker sleuths hint at power-grid disaster

  Civilisation hanging by a thread

  The FBI's Chicken-Little-esque anti-hacking outfit, the National Infrastructure Protection Centre (NIPC), raised the alarm last week over an amusing FTP stuff-up enabling a group of kids to play interactive games courtesy of a power-utility's bandwidth. The network in question was stupidly configured for anonymous FTP login …

  Music and Media 17 Dec 2000, 05:17