- Stakkato
Stakkato is the alias of the perpetrator or perpetrators of a worldwide cyber attack known to occur from at least December
2003 until May2005 , launched against a large number of sites on theInternet including theUS Military ,White Sands Missile Range ,NASA , a number of US academic institutions (known to includeCaltech ,Stanford University ,San Diego Supercomputer Center , and UIUC), and a number of non-US academic institutions (known to includeUppsala University inSweden andUniversity College Cork inIreland ) and several other Internet locations.A 16-year-old from
Uppsala ,Sweden was questioned over the attack in March 2005, while possible accomplices were searched in Sweden, Britain, and elsewhere in Europe.External links and references
* [http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/05/10/govt.computer.hacker/ Hacker infiltrated government computers] , "CNN", 10 May, 2005
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1481133,00.html Hacking trail leads to Swedish teen] , "The Guardian", 11 May 2005
* [http://www.nsc.liu.se/~nixon/stakkato.pdf The Stakkato Intrusions - What happened and what have we learned?] , technical presentation at CCGrid06, 17 May 2006
* [http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2005-02/pdfs/fate.pdf Tempting Fate] , Abe Singer, ";login:" February 2005. Description of attacks and response at SDSC.
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