The Times said in an extensive article dated Wednesday that it had worked with computer security experts to monitor, study and then eject the attackers.
Computer security experts have warned users to be careful over how much personal information they share on the service, and to consider carefully their privacy settings.
After surreptitiously tracking the intruders to study their movements and help erect better defenses to block them, The Times and computer security experts have expelled the attackers and kept them from breaking back in.
Computer security experts believe the virus will be under control by Monday, but ILOVEYOU has already caused more damage than last year's Melissa virus, which spurred many companies to invest in costly and complex computer security measures.
South Korea has set up a team of computer security experts from the government, military and private sector to identify the hackers and is preparing to deal with more possible attacks, presidential spokesman Yoon Chang-jung told reporters Friday.
In a Thursday afternoon presentation titled "Hacking Capitalism" at the Black Hat conference, a gathering of computer security experts, they detailed weaknesses in applications using Financial Information eXchange Protocol, or FIX, a common language used in communications between banks and commercial markets.
What frustrates computer-security experts is that the features that make the Internet such an invaluable resource -- its openness and interconnectedness -- also make it easier for hackers to do harm.
After months of investigation by the computer security firm Mandiant, experts are still unsure how the hackers initially infiltrated the Times's computer systems, the report said.
In the United States, government computer networks parry millions of attempted intrusions every day, Internet-security experts say.
Security experts say patterns of activity on the Internet could indicate that a new computer worm is about to attack.
Kerberos gained pre-eminence because it is clever, and because its developers, computer scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, released the source code, which let security experts around the world debug and refine the program line by line.
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