Niwa is owned by FitzRoy and Greta Point, Wellington Water and Atmospheric Research at the National Institute is located in a specially constructed room.
Niwa chief executive John Morgan super computer security on Thursday night, "an unauthorized person" by the compromise that was confirmed on May 23rd.
He said: "We supercomputer immediately isolated, and backup facilities to change functionality in Hamilton" said-
"We believe that the intruder did not get out of the supercomputer."
This type of machine is the fastest in the southern hemisphere and the rest of the world's top 500 supercomputers in. A top speed of 34 Tflops This is a low-latency, machine greatest scientific problem solving as a tool for working together allows for high bandwidth interconnect.
IP address of the attack from China that the attack originated from China can not be confirmed that this has been confirmed, however, Prime Minister John Key said. "In any country, attributing it will be very careful," he says.
Meanwhile, the Niwa attack was in vain and is usually undertaken FitzRoy. Assured "after a number of mitigation measures resumed with all the usual services, the supercomputer was back online on Saturday evening," says the Niwa.
Furthermore security expert Dr Paul Buchanan — a former policy analyst for the US Secretary of Defense advising the Pentagon — told NBR the attack followed the Chinese pattern of cyber trawling.He suggests the attack was to look for a back door or weak link, if Fitzroy is connected to other government computers.
But Daniel Ayers, a one-time Ernst & Young computer forensic expert and fraud investigator now private company Special Tactics, has different interpretation.He says-the attack could be used to mount a brute force attack on encryption of the supercomputer."The culprit in this case might have been seeking to establish a ‘botnet’ of super computers to solve a particularly difficult problem — possibly cryptographic. Or they might have suspected that the machine had covert classified uses, and it may do.”-he adds.
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