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No-name Internet use poses security threat-report
An Internet system designed to guarantee anonymous free speech
on the Web could be used by child pornographers and terrorists,
according to New Scientist magazine. Freenet was created by
Edinburgh University graduate Ian Clarke and other programmers
to make tracing the originators of a file impossible, thereby
giving dissidents in countries without free speech a voice.
http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/064102.htm
Man indicted after allegedly hacking into government computers
A suspected computer hacker made his first court appearance
Wednesday after being indicted on charges of breaking into
computers belonging to NASA and the U.S. departments of energy,
defense and transportation, said federal prosecutors.
Max Ray Butler, 27, of Berkeley was ordered held on $100,000
bail during the hearing in San Jose. On March 15, he was
indicted on criminal counts, including unauthorized access of
a computer, recklessly causing damage and interception of
electronic communication.
http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/078916.htm
Probe opened into missing White House E-Mails
The U.S. Justice Department has launched a criminal probe into
charges the White House failed to hand over electronic mail
sought by campaign finance investigators and used intimidation
to keep the mail secret. The probe, disclosed in court documents
Thursday, marks an escalation of charges that the White House
hid the existence of thousands of e-mails -- possibly related
to campaign finance, the Monica Lewinsky sex-and-perjury scandal
and other issues -- after a computer error led to them being
initially overlooked.
http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/internet/docs/350093l.htm
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1582483.html
Hacker breaches security to alter Alexandra website text
A Gore computer business has beefed up its security after a
Brazilian hacker got into one of the websites it manages and
changed the text. Clive Wilson Computers Gore managing director
Ewen Whitefield said yesterday the security breach of its domain
hosting machine last month was low level, but "anyone hacking
into our machines is serious." The hacker changed text on the
website of an Alexandra client. Police had been notified of the
breach and the company was unlikely to pursue it further. "It
annoys us more than anything else. If it was a major security
breach we could chase it back to the United States and Brazil,"
Mr Whitefield said. If anything the breach proved the company's
electronic "firewalls" were pretty good, stopping the hacker
from getting any further than minimal damage, he said.
http://www.press.co.nz/2000/12/000323x04.htm
Big Increase In Net Warfare Predicted
The already legendary distributed denial of service attacks that
brought down popular corporate Web sites earlier this year is only
a minor variation on the shape of things to come, and the US must
act accordingly to protect itself while not violating privacy
rights, Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., said today. He said that National
Security Data shows that "more than a dozen nations are working
on developing sophisticated information warfare tactics," and that
China is "reportedly considering the creation of a fourth branch
of the military for information warriors."
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/146228.html
China Sets up Computer Testing Center to Ensure Information Security
The National Information Security Testing Evaluation and Certification
Center today established a new branch, the Computer Testing Evaluation
Center, in Beijing. The new branch center will be responsible for
testing security problems related to hardware, database systems,
application software systems, and network equipment and related
systems. Qu Weizhi, vice-minister of the information industry, noted
that discussion of Internet security has become a hot topic recently,
but China lags behind in technological development in this regard.
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/more/cahners-chicago/11407/5635371/1
Senate Committee Okays Govt Security Bill
Sen. Fred Dalton Thompson, R-Tenn., today told Newsbytes that a
bill that calls on federal government agencies to tighten up their
computer and network security systems should not present an undue
financial burden to those agencies. The Senate Governmental Affairs
Committee, which Thompson chairs, today approved S. 1993, the
"Government Information Security Act," in a unanimous voice vote.
"(The bill) hopefully will pass into the appropriations process (for
funding)," Committee Ranking Member Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., told
Newsbytes. "This doesn't require a hell of a lot of money to get
started." The bill was approved after the committee held a series
of hearings on computer security in relation to the Internet, and
received recommendations from a variety of witnesses, including
convicted hacker Kevin Mitnick. The bill would require federal
agencies to appoint network security directors who would serve as
watchdogs to beef up computer systems against Internet-based hacking
attempts and other forms of digital attack.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/146206.html
15 counts in federal `hacking' case
Berkeley man free after two friends post $100,000 bail. A computer
security consultant who, friends say, shared his expertise with
the FBI has pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court in San Jose
to charges that he hacked into military and government computers.
Max Ray Butler, a 27-year-old Berkeley resident, was being held on
a 15-count indictment that alleges he infiltrated government
computers -- including those belonging to several national
laboratories, the Department of Defense, and NASA -- damaged them
and intercepted e-mail. Butler is alleged to have also penetrated
systems at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University
of California-Berkeley, the National Institutes of Health and the
U.S. departments of the interior and commerce. Butler was arrested
Tuesday, capping a 22-month investigation, officials said.
http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/hack032400.htm
Brazilian authorities arrest NASA hacker
The Civil Police of S<E3>o Paulo yesterday tracked down a member of
Inferno.br, one of the most famous hacker groups in Brazil.
According to Police Chief Mauro Marcelo de Lima e Silva, one of
the group's leaders, whose nickname is Jamiez Jamiez, was arrested
at his house and had two PCs and other equipment confiscated. The
Inferno.br group has been active since September of 1998 and has
hacked dozens of sites, becoming well known in the cyberunderground.
According to Silva, Microsoft helped the police by breaking the
Hotmail account used by the group. The police chief didn't reveal
Jamiez's real name, but said that he is 22 years old and works as
a security analyst for a company in Brazil. Jamiez is free while
he mounts his defense; according to Silva, jailing him is unlikely
because he doesn't have a criminal record. Inferno.br has allegedly
hacked sites belonging to NASA, NATO as well as a number of other
local government sites.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2000/0324brazil.html
British seek stolen secret service laptop
British police said today they were hunting a thief who had stolen
a secret service computer containing confidential information on
Northern Ireland. The laptop computer was snatched while an employee
of Britain's domestic security service, MI5, was buying a ticket at
London's Paddington train station. "I can confirm that a laptop
computer was stolen from the security service employee on March 4
at Paddington Underground (station)," said a government official
who declined to be identified. "The information contained in the
laptop was well protected and we believe it to be secure. We are
not prepared to discuss the nature of the material." The information
on the computer was understood to be heavily encrypted and was
related to the situation in Northern Ireland but did not refer
to the state of the peace process or any guerrilla threat.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-1583497.html
The case of missing White House e-mail
A case-sensitive glitch allowed hundreds of thousands of incoming
White House e-mail messages to slip through undetected, leaving
Congress and the Justice Department without e-mail evidence in
matters related to campaign finance, "Filegate" and the Monica
Lewinsky sex-and-perjury scandal. Employees from Northrop Grumman
Corp., the main computer contractor at the Executive Office of
the President (EOP), explained the problem in testimony Thursday
before the House Government Reform Committee. Because of a glitch
in an EOP server, incoming e-mail messages from the Internet
went undetected by the Automated Records Management System,
which searches text in response to subpoenas and other inquiries.
Internal messages were not affected by the failed interchange.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/0320/web-1email-03-24-00.asp
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