Never heard of that one. Sounds great for a movie plot, though - it has computers, the MIT, the military, terrorists. You just need to add some romance, guns and a couple mentions to the economy and will touch on every issue that's on the front page of all papers in the world these days ;)
Another classic would be Mitnick vs Shimomura - http://www.gulker.com/ra/hack/tsattack.html
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Flavio Silva [mailto:flavioabs (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]]
> Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 1:48 PM
> To: incidents (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]
> Subject: incidents from history
>
> Hi all!
>
> I want to know if someone can name the greatest incident of the
> computer history, but not the Morris Worm. Some time ago I read
> something about an incident called The Rising Sun, but now I'm not
> sure about this name. It was a supposed intrusion in some MIT lab,
> Harvard University, and some military facilities. Probably it was
> executed by terrorists. I want to confirm all this.
>
> Regards
> --
> Flavio A. Braga da Silva
> Informatics Department
> State University of Maringá (UEM)
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Another classic would be Mitnick vs Shimomura - http://www.gulker.com/ra/hack/tsattack.html
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Flavio Silva [mailto:flavioabs (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]]
> Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 1:48 PM
> To: incidents (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]
> Subject: incidents from history
>
> Hi all!
>
> I want to know if someone can name the greatest incident of the
> computer history, but not the Morris Worm. Some time ago I read
> something about an incident called The Rising Sun, but now I'm not
> sure about this name. It was a supposed intrusion in some MIT lab,
> Harvard University, and some military facilities. Probably it was
> executed by terrorists. I want to confirm all this.
>
> Regards
> --
> Flavio A. Braga da Silva
> Informatics Department
> State University of Maringá (UEM)
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