[iwar] Historical posting


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             FBI Web site attacked

There has been another "denial of service" cyber-attack against

a high-profile Web site, sources told UPI Wednesday -- this time

the target was the FBI's own Web page, which was taken out of

action for several hours Tuesday. The attack hit just as the FBI

was posting information about the 50th anniversary of its "Ten

Most Wanted Fugitives" list, which was celebrated Tuesday at the

bureau with the opening of a permanent headquarters exhibit. A

"denial of service" attack overwhelms a Web site with requests

for information, but with "spoofed" -- fabricated -- return e-mail

addresses. A site tries to endlessly answer the requests, and in

effect ties itself in knots until it shuts down. There was no

indication yet on whether Tuesday's cyber-attack was a

"distributed" denial of service attack, similar to those launched

against major commercial sites on the Internet early last month.

Those attacks temporarily crippled Yahoo!, E-Trade, CNN.com and

others.  U.S. investigators were still pursuing leads on the

latest attack Wednesday, defining its nature.

http://www.dotplanet.com/news/article.asp?aid=398894



NASA Division Battles The Hack From Ipanema

 From Antonio Carlos Jobim to the samba, the US generally has

welcomed some of the cooler cultural exports from Brazil, but

the latest one - a series of hack attacks on NASA's Jet Propulsion

Laboratory at CalTech - has the agency bossa nova-ing its way

toward beefing up its security measures. JPL Spokesman Frank

O'Donnell confirmed for Newsbytes an MSNBC report that the agency

has shut down access to queries emanating from Brazil until the

agency's security team makes some necessary improvements to its

network.

http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/145708.html

http://www.msnbc.com/news/382240.asp



Army on hacker alert

The Army has placed its cyberdefense teams on full alert after

a known hacker group threatened to take down the Army's World

Wide Web home page this Friday. On Tuesday evening the Army

placed its cyberdefenders at the Land Information Warfare center

at Fort Belvoir, Va., on full alert after a group known as the

Boys from Brazil threatened to hack into the Army home page on

Friday.

http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/0313/web-armyhac-03-15-00.asp



Panel Recommends Limited Government Role on Internet

There are steps the federal government can take to facilitate the

Internet's growth and make it safer for children and consumers,

but those steps must be very limited, a panel made up of lawmakers

and government officials agreed today. "I believe that government

regulation at this time is premature" in the privacy arena, said

Commissioner Orson Swindle of the Federal Communications Commission

(FCC), during a panel discussion at the 2000 Global Internet Summit

here. "Legislation motivated by the passions of an election year

could (stifle) e-commerce." Swindle was joined by representatives

from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the business

community and a pair of US Congressmen on a panel aimed at

discussing the ideal role of government in the thorny areas of

cybercrime and online privacy.

http://www.currents.net/newstoday/00/03/15/news6.html



EU-US privacy deal rotten, observers say

European and U.S. negotiators have finalized an agreement

on data privacy that puts to rest a simmering trans-Atlantic

dispute over data protection, but U.S. observers say the accord

underscores that Europeans have far more privacy protection

than Americans. After more than two years of talks, negotiators

announced at a press conference in Brussels on Tuesday that

the U.S.'s largely self-regulatory system based on so-called

safe harbor principles represents "adequate protection" as

defined and required by the rules of the European Union on the

transfer of personal data outside the EU.

http://www.idg.net/idgns/2000/03/14/EUUSPrivacyDealRottenObserversSay.shtml



Web surfers find cracks in wall of official China

Another night online in Beijing: In a chat room run by the

People's Daily newspaper - the mouthpiece of China's ruling

Communist Party - Chinese Internet users are expressing some

decidedly unofficial opinions. Three users banter about Taiwan's

upcoming election and express grudging respect for a candidate

the Chinese government loathes. Another makes an impassioned

cry for freedom of speech in a nation where voicing unauthorized

opinions can mean a prison term. Still another posts a poem that

pokes fun at the ''cleaning ladies'' -- censors who come online

to scrub away comments that go too far in criticizing the

government. The cleaning ladies have their hands full these days.

http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/145719.html



Corporate and government access to your data

There have been a number of frightening developments recently

in legal areas of computing. In the U.S., Northwest Airlines

successfully got a court warrant to search the home computers

(note these were the personal computers of Northwest Airlines

employees, they were not purchased by Northwest, on loan, or

anything like that) of employees for incriminating evidence

of a "sick-out" (a form of strike). This resulted in private

investigators being given access to the employees' computers,

and files and data being copied off for later forsenic analysis.

Nevermind that most of the data on these machines was not

related to the investigation, or the potential for civil

liberties and constitutional violations, lawyers managed to

argue (successfully) that speech about business is not free

speech. This raises a lot of worrying points, how much of you

and your personal life should your employer have access to?

http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000315.html



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