[iwar] Historical posting
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Date: Mon, Jan 1, 1999
From: Fred Cohen
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Subject: [iwar] Historical posting
Infowar in the news - extraced from:
SANS NEWSBITES
Volume 1, Number 22 August 25, 1999
...
23 August 1999 ISP Condemns Call for Cyber War
The ISP that hosts East Timor's domain has put out a plea to refrain
from cyber-attacks should there be any trouble with the upcoming vote
for independence from Indonesia (see related story, 18 August).
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990823S0008
...
19 August 1999 China Takes Precautions Against Possible Network Attack from
Taiwan
China has forbidden the Communist party along with government and state
concerns from connecting to the Internet to protect them from network
attacks.
http://www.globetechnology.com/archive/gam/News/19990819/IBRIEF-7.html
18 August 1999 Indonesia Faces Threat of Network Attack
A group of crackers is threatening a cyber-attack on the Indonesian
government's computer network if the government interferes with East
Timor's August 30th vote for independence from the island nation.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/ap/docs/765352l.htm
...
18 August 1999 Hoax By Cult Of The Dead Cow Alleged
Hong Kong Blondes, the cracker group interviewed by the Cult of the Dead
Cow and purported to have threatened to launch a massive cyber-attack
on China's information infrastructure, may not exist at all.
http://www.currents.net/newstoday/99/08/18/news3.html
...
17 August 1999 Massive Probe for Security Holes
A young Israeli computer consultant probed nearly 36 million Internet
hosts and found vulnerabilities in 450,000. He says that people often
don't heed security warnings, so that old flaws remain vulnerable. He
explained his timing as follows, "I am going to be drafted very soon
and will have very little personal freedom. I wouldn't be able to
publicize my work until 2004, so there was a window of opportunity I
needed to exploit."
http://www.internetnews.com/intl-news/print/0,1089,6_184381,00.html
FC