[iwar] Historical posting


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Date: Mon, Jan 1, 1999
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Marines say virus incident not an attack
The computer virus that found its way onto the network at Marine
Corps headquarters in the Pentagon last week is not the result
of a deliberate or sustained cyberattack, officials confirmed
Friday. Senior officials involved in intelligence and command
and control at Marine Corps headquarters characterized the
incident as localized and minor. Officials identified the virus
as the ExploreZip worm virus. Worm viruses, such as ExploreZip,
replicate themselves quickly throughout infected systems and
networks and then delete files critical to the operation of
various Microsoft Windows-based applications.
http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1999/1025/web-usmc-10-25-99.html

Hacker Attacks Ky. County's Weather Sirens
Activation Tones Cloned to Trigger Alarm
The Boone County early warning weather system that alerts
residents to a threatening storm or a tornado has been
sabotaged by someone who has cloned the tones needed to
trigger the alarm. Over the last few weeks, 29 sirens
scattered across this rural Kentucky county have gone
off, prompting a flood of phone calls to the police,
they said.
http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/1999/10/22/sirens1022_01.html

Russia, hack zone
Hackzone is the term Russian hackers use to describe their
homeland. There is a monthly devoted to it, a ready market
for hackers' services, and a government in no position to
fight it.
http://www.straitstimes.asia1.com/cyb/cyb1_1025.html

FC