[iwar] Historical posting


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Hacker posts fake Al Gore comments on Web site
A computer hacker replaced the home page of Marquette
University's Web site and inserted false and inflammatory
quotes from Vice President Al Gore. Among the fake quotes
attributed to Gore was that he plans to ``rid this country
of anyone who might question my motives, starting with
deporting all Christians.'' The sham page was discovered
early Tuesday, said John Hopkins, Marquette's vice
president for communications. Gore had addressed the
college the previous day. The university's information
technology staff had detected attempts to break into the
network Monday morning and temporarily disconnected the
Internet link.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/057903.htm

Hackers attack Russian military information website
Hackers replaced a Russian military news agency's Internet
homepage with a string of insults written in English about
Russia's army and leaders, the agency reported Wednesday.
The AVN agency said the hackers were working from Russia,
Britain's Staffordshire University and Brazil, and had also
changed some of the site's server configurations. According
to AVN, one of the hackers involved in the February attack
which disrupted the servcie of two if the Internet's most
popular sites, Yahoo and e-Bay, had announced "to totally
exclude Russia from cyberspace to punish it for the war in
Chechnya" The hacker, known under the pseudonym "smapf Doggy,"
promised continued attacks against sites linked to the
Russian war effort, AVN said. (No web link available)

Bennett leads cyber-defense
Sen. Bob Bennett was appointed Monday to head a new Senate
group designed to be a central clearing house for information
on how to combat cyber-attacks. That comes after Bennett,
R-Utah, said last week that he fears the next world war will
not be fought with tanks and missiles, but by enemy hackers
attacking the nation's computers to crash everything from
the nation's utilities to its banking. Bennett also headed
a similar committee that oversaw combating the Year 2000
computer glitch. His new Critical Infrastructure Protection
Working Group emerges largely to address threats warned about
by the earlier Y2K committee. Senate Majority Leader Trent
Lott, R-Miss., said he formed the group and named Bennett
to head it because "recent hacker attacks on major e-commerce
and government Web sites demonstrate the importance of
information security."
http://www.desnews.com/dn/view/0%2C1249%2C155013410%2C00.html

Airport Thieves Focus on Laptops
It used to be that if your briefcase was stolen while you
were on the road, you'd probably be out no more than a nice
leather bag, some pens, some easily replaced papers and maybe
the morning paper and a Snickers bar. But today, the travel
accessory of choice for thieves is a laptop or notebook
computer, and losing one of those babies can really cause a
problem. Consider a current furor raging in Britain, where
in a single week earlier this month, two agents with the
British intelligence services lost their laptops, which were
"packed with priceless state secrets," swooned The Sun, a
British tabloid. One was stolen from a careless spy who set
it down briefly on a subway platform; the other was "mislaid"
by a spy who "got blind drunk," according to The Sun. Nothing
quite so dramatic has happened in the United States. Still,
laptop thieves are having a prolonged field day in airports,
hotels and other places frequented by business travelers.
Safeware Inc., the largest insurer of laptops and other
computers, said that its clients reported 319,000 laptop
computers stolen in 1999, a 5 percent increase over 1998.
In 1997, however, such thefts jumped 28 percent.
(NY Times article, free registration required)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/03/biztech/articles/29travel.html

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