NYT: Internet attack called broad and long lasting

Tue May 10 05:32:37 UTC 2005

Internet Attack Called Broad and Long Lasting by Investigators
By JOHN MARKOFF and LOWELL BERGMAN

Published: May 10, 2005

SAN FRANCISCO, May 9 - The incident seemed alarming enough: a breach of a
Cisco Systems network in which an intruder seized programming instructions
for many of the computers that control the flow of the Internet.

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