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It’s a few years after Y2K when the IT security team at this university gets a rude awakening, reports a pilot fish in the know.

“They discovered that persons unknown had hacked into a university server,” fish says. “It was being used to launch denial-of-service attacks against a victim somewhere outside the university.”

The team’s first job is finding the server — which turns out to be in the alumni office — and taking it offline.

Then they start digging into the security logs. That’s when they find out that the attackers have been making use of the server for more than a year.

And once they start checking on the IP addresses of whoever it is that has accessed the server, they discover it’s not just one or two hackers. It seems people from all over the world have been using this server to launch attacks.

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