Stakkato

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Stakkato is the alias of the perpetrator or perpetrators of a worldwide cyber attack known to occur from at least December 2003 until May 2005, launched against a large number of sites on the Internet including the US Military, White Sands Missile Range, NASA, a number of US academic institutions (known to include Caltech, Stanford University, San Diego Supercomputer Center, and UIUC), and a number of non-US academic institutions (known to include Uppsala University in Sweden and University College Cork in Ireland) 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.

[edit] External links and references

• Hacker infiltrated government computers, CNN, 10 May, 2005
• Hacking trail leads to Swedish teen, The Guardian, 11 May 2005
• The Stakkato Intrusions - What happened and what have we learned?, technical presentation at CCGrid06, 17 May 2006
• Tempting Fate, Abe Singer, ;login: February 2005. Description of attacks and response at SDSC.