[iwar] Historical posting


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             Second Spy Loses Laptop

An urgent inquiry is under way into how an MI6 officer

mislaid a laptop computer containing classified material.

The incident was revealed in The Sun, just days after

the newspaper reported that an MI5 officer had a laptop

computer containing classified information on Northern

Ireland stolen from a London Underground station. The

Sun said that the MI6 officer lost the laptop in a taxi

after drinking at a tapas bar near MI6's headquarters on

the south bank of the Thames. It claimed that the service

placed an anonymous advert in a newspaper offering a

"substantial reward" in a bid to get the laptop back.

http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/Breaking_News/UK/0,2478,92840,00.html

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/12/ns-14412.html



FBI chief says cyber attacks doubled in a year

The number of cyber crimes being investigated by the FBI

has doubled in the past year and last month's attacks on

leading Web sites are the tip of the iceberg, said FBI

director Louis Freeh Tuesday. Addressing a Senate

sub-committee of cyber crime, Freeh suggested changes to

the law that would help to track down cyber criminals and

make it easier to keep pace with the fastest growing area

of crime in the United States. In 1998, Freeh said the FBI

had opened 547 ``computer intrusion'' cases and this more

than doubled to 1,154 last year. In 1998, the FBI closed

399 of these cases and 912 last year. ``In short, even

though we have markedly improved our capabilities to fight

cyber-intrusions, the problem is growing even faster,''

he told the committee.

http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/009644.htm

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2486464,00.html

http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/cybercrime/fedwatch/story/0,9955,2486546,00.html

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1595429.html



FBI Needs More Net Security Resources, CESA Support

Federal law enforcement is getting plenty of pats on the

back from Congress on its efforts to fight Internet crime,

but it needs more money and more latitude in finding and

prosecuting online criminals - and some of those resources

may not sit so well with other members of the Internet

community. FBI Director Louis Freeh, in testimony before

the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism

and Government Information, gunned for congressional approval

of the Cyberspace Electronic Security Act (CESA), a program

that gives the FBI $80 million and other resources to help

nab online criminals who use widely available strong

encryption to conceal their criminal intent. He added that

the Justice Department soon will submit a proposal of

initiatives that it would support to increase law

enforcement's ability to combat cyber-crime, including

occasional suspensions of the Freedom of Information Act.

http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/146472.html



Hacker permanent injunction issued

A federal judge issued a permanent injunction Tuesday

barring two software experts from publishing a program

on the Internet that would allow children to bypass the

Cyber Patrol Internet filter program. Cyber Patrol, made

by Framingham-based Microsystems, a division of Mattel

Inc., is a popular product that blocks pornographic or

violent sites from home computers. U.S. District Judge

Edward Harrington said parents ``have the ... right to

screen and thus prevent noxious and insidious ideas from

corrupting their children's fertile and formative minds.''

Matthew Skala, a self-described cryptography buff who

attends the University of Victoria in British Columbia,

and Eddy L.O. Jansson, believed to be living in Sweden,

developed the ``cphack'' program, which would circumvent

Cyber Patrol. Along with showing how to bypass Cyber

Patrol, the ``cphack'' program also disclosed the list

of sites that the product blocks users from viewing.

But after Microsystems sued them earlier this month, the

two agreed to a settlement in which they would stop

publishing the software -- and that won the judge's seal

of approval on Tuesday.

http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/ap/docs/366754l.htm



Cyber-mischief shows potential for damaging future attacks

Online terrorists, criminals likely to target vital

infrastructure systems. His alias is hV2k and he's a hacker

who specializes in breaking into military and government

computers. HV2k is the Internet name of the person who

entered the Department of National Defence's Web page on

Nov. 1. Within a period of five days, hV2k -- also known

as "slipy" -- broke into 19 military and government computers

in Canada and the United States. On his list were the state

of Virginia's Sex Offender Registry, the state of New York's

tax computer system, the Canadian government's Human Resources

Development Department, and four U.S. military computer sites.

A joint Canadian Forces National Investigation Service and

RCMP investigation determined the identity of two people

involved in the hV2k attacks, one of them being a young

offender, but no further details are being released.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/hightech/000327/3825256.html



L0pht develops Palm Pilot war dialler

Self-styled 'ethical hacking' outfit L0pht Heavy Industries

has developed a free war-dialling utility for use with the

Palm operating system. Known as TBA, the programme combines

carrier logging, data-file manipulation, calling-card dialling

options, and a handy battery meter display.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/000328-000005.html



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