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             HACKERS' BUG CAUSES CHAOS

COMPUTER hackers are causing chaos with a virus that tricks systems

into thinking the Millennium has arrived. Companies across Britain

are being hit by the bug, which can render systems useless for up to

three days. Security software experts are concerned valuable data

could be wiped out or stolen while computers are crippled. The problem

was revealed at a conference on electronic security, organised by

software firm mi2g. A company spokesman said: "Hackers are causing

chaos with this code because it can immediately shut down computer

systems. "There are not just financial risks to be considered -

serious safety issues are also involved." The virus, which forwards

internal clocks to January 1, 2000, was first detected in the UK last

month, when a firm was unable to use 40 per cent of its system.

http://web.lexis-nexis.com/more/cahners-chicago/11407/5154796/2



U.S. expert says computer viruses a Y2K threat

Add a rash of new computer viruses to the list of Y2K headaches that

could await the world on Jan. 1, a leading technology researcher said

Tuesday. More than 30,000 threats from computer hackers and virus writers

who say they will release new viruses to herald the new year and the new

millennium have been logged by the FBI and other law enforcement groups,

Lou Marcoccio, worldwide research director at the technology consulting

firm Gartner Group said.

http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/011456.htm

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1009-200-1428221.html



Israel charges blind Arab brothers with cybercrime

Three blind Arab brothers tapped into Israeli army telephone lines and

enabled Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza to call overseas at the

military's expense, an Israeli prosecutor said Tuesday.

http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/reuters/docs/1034068l.htm



Four US '.mil' Web Sites Invaded By Cracker Group

A group of hackers - more accurately known as "crackers" - hit at least

four US military Web sites sometime on Monday, according to a Web site

that tracks such infiltrations. As Web site crackings go, though, three

of the four invasions were relatively benign. The group "hV2k" claimed

responsibility for the invasions, through text left behind at each site,

according to copies or "mirrors" of the sites stored at Attrition.org.

http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/99/138770.html



Hackers wreak havoc on Romanian Web site

Romania's Finance Ministry said it will investigate how hackers tapped

into its Web site and changed tax laws and the leu's exchange rate.  The

Web site last weekend showed a tax on "silliness" that varied according

to the importance of the taxpayer's job.  For one day, the Web site

said, monthly wages of as much as 1 million lei ($59.14) would be taxed

100 percent.  It also changed the official exchange rate of the leu to

0.5 per dollar from 16,870 per dollar. 

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1427148.html



FBI probing Moscow link in cyber 'attack'

The FBI is trying to determine if cyber-spies at Moscow's prestigious

Russian Academy of Sciences were responsible for Moonlight Maze, the

most pervasive assault yet on sensitive US Defence Department and other

computer networks. The first Moonlight Maze attack was detected in March

last year. Three months later, US security sleuths were able to monitor

a series of intrusions as they occurred and traced them back to seven

dial-up Internet connections near Moscow.

http://straitstimes.asia1.com/cyb/cyb4_1102.html



Probe into hack at S'pore Govt website

THE National Computer Board is investigating Sunday's possible

hacking into the Singapore Government website. Asked about the

incident yesterday, Minister for Communications and Information

Yeo Cheow Tong said the incident showed the risk all countries

face. He said that adding safeguards may prove to be a temporary

solution. "Each time you come up with some safeguards, we find

that somebody else will come up with an equally innovative way

to bypass our safeguards.

http://straitstimes.asia1.com/cyb/cyb1_1102.html



Taiwan Prepares For Possible Chinese Cyber Attacks

China could be able in five years to use computer viruses, hackers and

other types of cyber warfare to quickly break down Taiwan's defenses

and prepare for an invasion, the Taiwanese military said Tuesday.

Taiwan's economy, government and military are highly dependent on

computers and could be vulnerable to such high-tech weapons, the

official Central News Agency quoted Chang Jia-sheng of the Defense

Ministry as saying.

http://www.tampabayonline.net/news/news101k.htm



Ukrainian Hacks Into US Agency's Files

A Ukrainian has hacked into the secret files of a U.S. federal agency,

a Ukrainian law-enforcement source told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.

The U.S. discovered the hacking and traced it back to the company

Nikave based in the central Ukrainian city of Vinnitsa. But Nikave

director Yulia Shakula told Itar-Tass she did not have the faintest

idea of how the hacker had learnt the company's login and password.

However, the company may face a huge fine, and the case is being

investigated by Ukraine's law enforcers and Interpol. There were no

details about the name of the U.S. agency and of the damage inflicted.

[Description of Source: ITAR-TASS -- Main government information agency.]



FC