WASHINGTON (AP) -- Leading experts on Internet security are skeptical that the FBI and other investigators will be able to track down the person responsible for last weekend's attack on the Internet. These experts, including many who provide technical advice to the FBI and other U.S. agencies, said exhaustive reviews of the blueprints for the attacking software are yielding few clues to its origin or the author's identity.
"The likelihood of being able to track down the specific source of this is very unlikely," said Ken Dunham, an analyst at iDefense Inc., an online security firm. "We don't have the smoking gun." Many top experts believe the programming for the Internet worm was based on software code published on the Web months ago by a respected British computer researcher, David Litchfield, and later modified by a virus author known within the Chinese hacker community as "Lion."
That altered computer code was published in the online hangout for the Hacker Union of China, known as Honker, a group active in skirmishes between American and Chinese hackers that erupted in 2001 after the forced landing of a U.S. spy plane. But experts said it was impossible to say whether members of that Chinese hackers organization unleashed the damaging worm.
Source: CNN.com/Technology
"The likelihood of being able to track down the specific source of this is very unlikely," said Ken Dunham, an analyst at iDefense Inc., an online security firm. "We don't have the smoking gun." Many top experts believe the programming for the Internet worm was based on software code published on the Web months ago by a respected British computer researcher, David Litchfield, and later modified by a virus author known within the Chinese hacker community as "Lion."
That altered computer code was published in the online hangout for the Hacker Union of China, known as Honker, a group active in skirmishes between American and Chinese hackers that erupted in 2001 after the forced landing of a U.S. spy plane. But experts said it was impossible to say whether members of that Chinese hackers organization unleashed the damaging worm.
Source: CNN.com/Technology
And to cap it all off...
AOL Time Warner vice chairman Ted Turner will step down in May, the company said Wednesday. Turner will step down in May, the company said, joining outgoing chairman Steve Case.
"After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my executive duties as vice chairman of AOL Time Warner," Turner said in a statement. "I have not come to this decision lightly. As you know, this company has been a significant part of my life for over fifty years."
News source: c|net
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