CBS Evening News - 2000-02-12
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[0:02] play from the chair.
[0:06] >> You have the right to remain silent.
[0:08] It's
[0:08] >> not your lucky day. It could be. Spirit
[0:11] Mountain, poker, bingo, crap, [ __ ] and
[0:13] the like.
[0:14] >> Can you pass the eyewitness IQ test
[0:16] tonight on Coin 6 News at 11.
[0:19] >> The mastermind's message. The hacker
[0:21] whose program is suspected in the
[0:23] internet attacks is now posting first
[0:25] aid tips on his site. A disputed deal on
[0:29] IRA guns puts the Northern Ireland peace
[0:31] plan in jeopardy. And John McCain in the
[0:35] driver's seat one week before South
[0:37] Carolina's Republican primary.
[0:43] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Bona
[0:47] Assortis.
[0:50] >> Good evening everyone. Bite by bite,
[0:52] investigators are unraveling the mystery
[0:54] of this week's attack on the internet.
[0:56] and today it moved overseas. Computers
[0:59] at universities in both California and
[1:01] now Germany appear to have been
[1:03] commandeered for the assault. As
[1:05] authorities pursue the shadowy inventor
[1:07] of the attack software, CBS News has
[1:10] learned he is now posting corrective
[1:12] measures on his own site. Randall
[1:14] Kingston has the latest.
[1:16] VDNet, a popular site for internet news,
[1:19] thought it was prepared for cyber
[1:21] assault, but Wednesday morning its
[1:23] security was overwhelmed. Within
[1:25] minutes, the whole team was assembled
[1:27] and clearly understood that we were
[1:29] under siege and a denial of service
[1:32] attack.
[1:33] >> Investigators think a computer program
[1:35] called the tribal flood network may have
[1:37] been used to launch the attack. It was
[1:39] invented by a mysterious 20-year-old who
[1:42] calls himself Mixster. Late last year,
[1:45] he posted TFN on t