Word: networked
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Regardless what jobs the MPA/ID program graduates get, Finney says, the students "will have a worldwide network of colleagues...
...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...
...Hopkins was the name of the Internet link that was used," Brumley said. Stanford runs the Hopkins network for a national oceanographic organization...
...attackers brought down eBay and other sites using a method called "denial of service," or DOS. On a regular computer network, one computer sends a packet, or a bit of information, to another computer, and waits for a "ping" in return to verify that the information was received...
...computers' response was not a malfunction, however, and there were no interruptions in service on the main Stanford network, though Hopkins slowed considerably, bringing the assault to administrators' attention...