Word: computerized
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Harvard computer officials acknowledge universities are particularly susceptible to such attacks.
"Basically, what happened was that a small Stanford network was used as an amplifier on the attack against eBay only," said David J. Brumley, assistant computer security officer for Stanford University. "It was used for about 15 minutes only and then we shut it down."
Harvard's computers are managed in the same way as Stanford's, where a central computer group is responsible for the main system, but academic departments maintain their own internal systems.
Franklin M. Steen, director of Faculty of Arts and Sciences computer services, said he is aware of the possibility of attack on Harvard's computer systems.
"All the [networks] on the main campus have been proofed against this type of thing," said Stephen E. Hansen, Stanford's computer security officer.