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Godfathers go for Internet gold, Italian cops say The Sicilian Mafia is convulsing world stock markets by laundering hundreds of millions of pounds undetected through the internet, Italian police say. Vast sums are dissolving into cyberspace and reappearing as stocks and shares in a long-feared criminal hijacking of electronic commerce. Surges in stock markets and even the euro's roller-coaster ride are being attributed to the Mafia's mastery of online trading and banking, police say. http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/010165.htm
Another E-Mail-Spewing Virus Found In Wild
Anti-virus software companies today are warning PC owners about another intruder that has the potential to replicate quickly on the Internet while generating a high volume of bogus e-mail. Both Trend Micro Inc., of Cupertino, Calif., and Computer Associates, of Islandia, N.Y., issued bulletins early this morning saying that a Trojan virus generically called "ICQGREETING" was discovered Thursday evening. The companies said ICQGREETING spreads by auto-mailing a blank e-mail with no subject line containing only an attached file named "Icq_Greetings.exe." http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/99/140572.html
Y2K virus infects Fortune 500 firm
Arrives as email with no subject or text, just attachment called ICQ_Greetings.exe .The list of Y2K-inspired viruses grew again Thursday night, as one Fortune 500 company was infected by a Trojan horse named "ICQ_Greetings," according to antivirus firm Trend Micro. The virus attempts to reformat victims' hard drives on Jan. 1, and also sends copies of itself out through the victim's e-mail. http://www.msnbc.com/news/345030.asp
Y2K May Bring 100 Viruses
New virus alerts seem to go out on a daily basis. But Clark Staten, senior national security analyst with the Chicago- based Emergency Response and Research Institute (ERRI), says there may be as many as 100 new viruses unleashed on the computer world by Jan. 1. Staten told Newsbytes that, as virus writers seek to exploit the Millennium Bug for personal notoriety within hacker culture, viruses are likely to proliferate. He said that researchers from companies like Network Associates, Symantec, and McAfee report to his company that Y2K will be a very busy time for virus writers. http://www.currents.net/newstoday/99/12/10/news1.html
Denial-of-service attacks employ zombie PCs to hit networks Hackers may never be confused with voodoo priests, but try telling that to the legions of computer "zombies" they have commanded to do their network clog-up bidding. A new form of Denial of Service (DoS) attack caused by the trin00 and Tribe Network Flood programs has been wreaking havoc on bandwidth on a larger scale than ever before, according to Chris Klaus, founder and chief technology officer of Internet Security Systems (ISS). http://www.infoworld.com/articles/en/xml/99/12/09/991209enzombie.xml
Internet Anonymity Urged
The constitutionally guaranteed right of freedom of speech and expression is under attack in America by proposals to limit or restrict the use of anonymity on the Internet. That's the ultimate conclusion drawn in a study released today by the Cato Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. The report, entitled, "Nameless in Cyberspace: Anonymity on the Internet," was written by Jonathan D. Wallace, an attorney and software company executive. http://www.currents.net/newstoday/99/12/10/news6.html
'Cool war' brings Internet into warfare
As water has no constant form, there are in warfare no constant conditions. - Sun Tzu, ''The Art of War'' When Chinese strategist Sun Tzu wrote his classic on military philosophy more than a millennium ago, there was no way he could have imagined the Internet as battlefield. Now, hundreds of generations later, a new corps of his compatriots has seen the future of war - and it's online. A recent article in the Chinese Liberation Army Daily was direct in its assessment that integrating Web warfare with combat on the ground will be essential to winning future conflicts. Add to that a heightened effort by the United States to protect crucial online infrastructure and you have what one cyberwarfare expert calls the onset of a "cool war." http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/0,1643,500140335-500165691-500603475-0,00.html
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