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 pseudonym is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name (see Alias) In common usage hacker is generic term for a computer criminal often with a specific specialty in computer intrusion Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks The United States Armed Forces are the overall unified military forces of the United States White Sands Missile Range (WSMR is a Rocket range of almost area the largest military installation in the United States The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech) is a private, Coeducational research university located in Pasadena Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private Research university located in The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC is an organized research unit of the University of California San Diego (UCSD Uppsala University ( Swedish Uppsala universitet) is a world-class research University in Uppsala, Sweden. "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. University College Cork ( UCC) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, the university is located in Cork. Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world
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. Uppsala ˈɵpˌsɑːla (older spelling Upsala) is the capital of Uppsala County ( Uppsala län) and the fourth largest city of "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation.
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.
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