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By Ben Dobbin
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BUFFALO, N.Y. - A sus
pected crooked insider at a New
York software company sells
consumer-credit reports to iden
tity thieves, at roughly $30 a
pop, in a high-tech scam that
prosecutors say victimizes thou
sands of people.
An unemployed British com
puter administrator fights extra
dition to face federal charges in
Virginia and New Jersey that he
hacked into 92 separate U.S.
military and government net
works, often getting past easy-
to-guess passwords to download
sensitive data.
These and other recent data
intrusions have given rise to a
promising profiling strategy
aimed at preventing online
break-ins as they happen.
Just as authorities use profil
ing to guard against criminals at
ports and borders, researchers at
the State University of New York
at Buffalo are developing soft
ware that can generate highly
personalized profiles of network
users by analyzing the sequences
of commands entered at each
computer terminal.
The system could provide a
high-grade layer of protection
for military installations and
government agencies as well as
banking or other commercial
networks that require especially
tight monitoring.
The software draws up regu
larly updated profiles by closely
tracking over time how each per
son performs an array of routine
tasks, such as opening files,
sending e-mail or searching
through digital archives.
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The ultimate
goal is to detect
intrusions or
violations occurring
on the fly.
— Shambhu Upadhyaya
professor. State University
of New York at Buffalo
Designed to tell if someone
has strayed into an unautho
rized zone or is masquerading
as an employee using a stolen
password, the program keeps
watch for even subtle devia
tions in a user’s behavior.
Alerted to anomalies, net
work administrators then begin
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monitoring more aggressm
assess whether intrusion o
ferage is in progress.
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By Alicia Chang
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A powerful earthquake splits the California
desert floor, killing a toddler and crumbling
homes. Years later and a dozen miles away, anoth
er huge tremor on a different fault rocks the area.
Scientists now believe the two events were
related — and they are beginning to understand
how.
In a study published in Thursday's issue of the
journal Nature, researchers say they have directly
measured for the first time how strong seismic
shaking can weaken an adjacent and unrelated
geologic fault.
“It’s a very interesting discovery,” said
Christopher Scholz of the Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory of Columbia University, who did not
participate in the study. “We already know that
earthquakes trigger other earthquakes on other
faults. This provides some additional information
that may tell us how that happens.”
The study compares two earthquakes in the
Mojave Desert. The 1992 Landers quake regis
tered a magnitude 7.3, killed one person and
caused $100 million in damage.
After the quake, geologists buried seismome
ters into the fault and set off explosions ink®
holes drilled more than 100 feet down. The
sions simulated earthquake tremors. /f
Five years of observations of the seismicd
showed that the shattered Crust was slowlyrtfl
ing itself.
Then in 1999, the Hector Mine quakeffli
The magnitude-7.1 quake occurred on aita
fault about a dozen miles from the LanglipL
Hector Mine caused little surface damagi'J®
it was in a more remote area.
But seismic measurements showed the f
Mine quake weakened the Landers fault and
rupted its self-repair.
“We were watching the Landers fault Its
said John Vidale, a geophysicist at the Univeii
of California, Los Angeles, and the stud
author. “After the Hector Mine earthquake,
could actually see that the Landers fault
become weaker.”
Because geologic stress can move back
forth, the researchers speculate the Landersqu
probably helped to weaken the Hector Mine ft
before it finally broke in 1999.
“it appears that one earthquake can
weaken the faults around it, which may make
surrounding faults more likely to have their
earthquakes,” Vidale said.
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