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Date: Mon, Jan 1, 1999
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Yahoo: 'Attack' Caused Outage
By Dick Kelsey, Newsbytes
SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.,
07 Feb 2000, 7:20 PM CST
Yahoo Inc [NASDAQ:YHOO] said tonight that an outside attack on its
servers that caused massive access problems for much of the day was a
coordinated effort that was not pulled off by a "hack."
A Yahoo spokesperson who requested anonymity told Newsbytes, "It does
appear, given the nature of what happened today, that it was a
coordinated incident from multiple locations on the Internet. This was
not a hack."...
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/143469.html
Japan Fights Internet crime
With hackers barraging government Internet sites, Japanese police
announced plans to improve crime-fighting in cyberspace, newspapers
reported Saturday. Beginning late last month, unidentified hackers
began a high-profile campaign to crack state sites. And despite its
love for just about everything high-tech, Japan is far behind other
countries when it comes to tackling online crime. The Yomiuri Shimbun,
Japan's largest paper, said the National Police Agency has requested
$1.78 million from the country's fiscal 2000 budget to battle the
problem. Police want to study how hackers break into Web sites and
ensure user names are not being abused, the reports said.
http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/ap/docs/176180l.htm
A Private Little Cyberwar
Don't romanticize kids who hack their way into computers. They can
go from mischievous to malicious in a click. JAY DYSON KNOWS THE EXACT
moment his life began to unravel. It was 10 a.m. on Mar. 5, 1997, when
Dyson, a techie for the National Aeronautics & Space Administration in
Pasadena, Calif., discovered that NASA had been hacked. A gang puckishly
named Hagis--Hackers Against Geeks in Snowsuits--had commandeered the
"root" directory of some NASA computers, gaining partial control of the
network and lacing it with password "sniffers" and "back doors" to let
them return at will. They replaced NASA's home page with their own,
decrying commercialization of the Internet with an almost comical
ominousness. "All who profit from the misuse of the Internet will fall
victim to our upcoming reign of digital terrorism," Hagis declared. "The
commercialization of the Internet stops here." Dyson, part of a team
charged with spotting intrusions and patching security holes, took this
all too personally. Then he made his first mistake: He bashed Hagis
online, posting the attack on his own Web site. "You are just a bunch of
lame kids," he wrote.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/00/0221/6504068a.htm
Philippines - Telecom, Paging Companies Deter Crime
Philippine National Police (PNP) are tapping all available technology devices
that would support and enhance its crime prevention campaign. First, the PNP
came up with PNP Hotline 117, a hotline specially designated to accommodate
complaints and other information that could help the police to solve crimes,
if not prevent them. Then it created a PNP Web site that would serve as an
easily accessible venue where people could file complaints online. And now,
after the success of those projects, the PNP is seeking out the assistance of
telecommunications and paging companies in its drive to prevent crimes.
On Jan. 29, the PNP signed a memorandum of understanding with the National
Telecommunications Commission (NTC), asking telecommunications and paging
companies to allow police to use their infrastructure. The memo is part of
the Project PNP Online, which aims to strengthen the PNP's anti-crime campaign
online. Alex Ramos, project director of National Capital Region Police Office
Online, told Newsbytes that the assistance of the telecommunications and
paging
companies could help police tap information from more than a million
subscribers
of text messaging and paging services.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/143451.html
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