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Mexican hackers got to Pentagon in 1998, U.S. official says Mexican Zapatista guerrillas managed to hack into the Pentagon's Web site in 1998 using computers on the Frankfurt stock exchange, a U.S. official told a German magazine. "The rebel Zapatistas attacked the Pentagon site in 1998," said Arthur L. Money in an interview published in the latest edition of the German weekly Focus. Money is the chief information officer of the Defense Department. "Using computers on the Frankfurt stock exchange, they managed to hack into the ... computer system," he said. http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/body/0,1634,500179791-500236658-501166899-0,00.html
Hackers question Denial of Service as political protest The Electrohippies take on Cult of the Dead Cow in hacking legitimacy dispute. A row has broken out between UK Internet activists, the Electrohippies, and US ethical hacking group, Cult of the Dead Cow, over whether Denial of Service attacks are a legitimate form of Internet activism. The Electrohippies have published a report that claims the recent attacks were a statement against the commercial development of the Internet, and suggests this technique should be developed as a legitimate form of protest on the Net. "Recent actions on the Internet against e-commerce sites are not a matter of pleasure seeking by bored computer nerds," reads the Electrohippies' message. "They represent a fundamental disagreement about the purposes of the Internet, and the increasing emphasis on the use of the Net as a vehicle for profitable trade, rather than of knowledge and discussion." http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/10/ns-14021.html
FBI to Double Force of Digital G-Men
The FBI is planning to double its force of digital G-men over the next two years by deploying computer crime squads in all 56 field offices nationwide to fight cybercrime and cyberterrorism. FBI Deputy Director Thomas Pickard told APBnews.com that the federal law enforcement agency also wants to boost the number of investigators focused on high-tech crime at the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) at FBI headquarters here. http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/internetcrime/2000/03/10/fbicyber0310_01.html
Wanted by the FBI: High-Tech Crime Fighters
Last month's cyberattacks on top Web sites have exposed the FBI's high-tech shortcomings and the need for more computer experts at the bureau, the president of the FBI agent's association said. Scores of veteran agents are opting for retirement and often lucrative, private-sector jobs, and their ranks are gradually being replaced by younger agents. But those coming into the bureau may be surprised at some of the obsolete crime-solving tools awaiting them. http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/internetcrime/2000/03/10/fbicyber_recruit0310_01.html
PLA calls for legislation on cyber defence
The People's Liberation Army has urged parliament to speed up legislation on information security in the face of possible cyber attacks, the army's newspaper says. PLA delegate Yang Yunzhong, a professor with the Jinan Academy of Arms Force, made the proposal to the National People's Congress and the move has been ``enthusiastically echoed by many military deputies'', the People's Liberation Army Daily said yesterday. Though the PLA has made use of many software programs from the US and Taiwan, they should not under-estimate the potential danger at crucial times, said Prof Yang and fellow PLA deputy Li Chunhe, a cadre with a taskforce on information security under the department of general staff. http://online.hkstandard.com/today/default.asp?PageType=ach3
China offsets long lines at encryption registrar with handy clarification: China's State Encryption Management Commission, the government agency responsible for enforcing Internet rules, has issued a "letter of clarification that showcases modifications to its rather draconian restrictions on encryption technology. Under the initial proposal all businesses and individuals were required to register any products containing encryption. Users were then supposed to apply for permission to use the coding. Officials also declared that foreign encryption technology would be banned from sale in China. The revised restrictions exempt a wide range of consumer software and equipment that includes mobile phones and Microsoft Windows. China further has decided not to "carry out encryption key trusteeship of foreign encryption products and equipment containing encryption technology... Foreign businesses do not need to be worried about this point." http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/reuters/docs/309374l.htm
Group Claims Library Association Suppresses Net Porn Data On the eve of American Library Association's planned National Freedom of Information Day celebration, the conservative Family Research Council (FRC) will release a report contending that the ALA has repeatedly ducked information requests pertaining about the availability of pornography on library computers, an FRC spokesperson said today. "We have documentation (of communications) from the ALA to libraries suggesting ways to avoid complying with our FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests," FRC spokesperson Kristin Hansen said today. The ALA vehemently denied the FRC accusations. "I know nothing about that and that is not something we would do," ALA president Sarah Long told Newsbytes today. "I'm really offended by the (FRC allegations)," she said. The FRC plans to release its documentation in a report called "Dangerous Access,
2000 Edition: Uncovering Internet Pornography in America's Libraries,"
at a Wednesday press conference here that will be timed to coincide with the ALA Freedom of Information Day festivities planned for Thursday. http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/145547.html
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