Denial of service, the future of dirty tricks

✍ Scribed by Helen Meyer

• Book ID: 104298211
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 125 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-4048
• DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4048(97)88118-7

✦ Synopsis

word processor to hunt through them for particular names or keywords like 'password'or 'cash'. Once likely fraud or theft targets have been established, they can then fine-tune the original scanning program to record only messages sent to the pagers they identify Pager messages in Britain are sent out across the country, rather than to specific areas. This allows hackers in Aberdeen to scan for messages in London as if they were sitting in Hyde Park. Several hackers have logged pages from security firms giving their guards'alarm passwords and PIN numbers to let themselves into buildings. Others have tracked shop and pub managers paging daily cash totals into their head offices before making night bank deposits.