10:16 PM ET 09/18/98
NYT Web site areas still down after attack
NEW YORK, (Reuters) - Areas of The New York Times Web site
were still out of action Friday, five days after the newspaper
battled hackers attacking the site and then pulled it offline
for much of Sunday, the newspaper said.
Online readers on Friday found they could still not gain
access to New York Times Web page classifieds, archive, forums
and search areas. A company spokeswoman said around 95 percent
of the site was back up after Sunday's nine-hour shutdown.
``We're doing the best that we can to get it back up,'' New
York Times spokeswoman Nancy Nielsen said in an interview.
``There's no point in getting it back up unless we're sure we're
secure.''
Nielsen said the Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking
into Sunday's attack by a group calling itself ``Hacking for
Girlies.''
The newspaper fought a two-hour struggle Sunday morning for
control of the site before closing it down.
The hacker group, supporting a computer hacker imprisoned in
Los Angeles since 1995, repeatedly inserted lewd pictures and
text ridiculing two New York Times reporters, John Markoff and
Matt Richtel.
Markoff wrote ``TakeDown,'' a book detailing the search for
Kevin Mitnick, a hacker who was convicted of computer-related
fraud charges and whose imprisonment has become a cause in the
hacker community.
``People haven't said such nasty things about me since the
sixth grade,'' Markoff said Friday. `` I know very little about
who this group is and whether they're more than one guy down in
the basement.''
^REUTERS@
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