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Date: Mon, Jan 1, 1999
From: Fred Cohen
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Mob Muscles In on Credit Cards
Police in Toronto have arrested 38 members of what they
claim is a huge, high-tech Russian organized crime ring.
Authorities allege that the mobsters intercepted and
decoded vast quantities of credit-card data in transit
from stores to banks and rigged debit card machines to
download and copy encrypted information. They then used
the stolen data to bilk banks and credit-card customers
out of untold millions of dollars. While the most
spectacular of their alleged crimes were high-tech,
Canadian cops claim the group also indulged the usual
mob vices, including drug trafficking, gambling fraud,
extortion, and murder.
http://wired.com/news/business/0,1367,33027,00.html
Internet attack helps jam state's largest ISP
If you've noticed that your Internet service has been a
little -- or a lot -- balky lately, you're not alone.
Many Internet users have been running into traffic jams
that have slowed their surfing significantly. Part of the
problem is that more people are using the Internet more
frequently, straining the network capacity of many Internet
service providers (ISPs) and their telephone company
suppliers. That problem was exacerbated this week at Onvoy,
Minnesota's largest ISP, by a massive "denial-of-service"
attack against one of its customers. The attack flooded
Onvoy's already-congested network with streams of data
that slowed service not only to the target customer but
to Onvoy's entire network.
http://www.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisSlug=NET11&date=11-D
ec-1999&_ref=647444474
Hackers attack Russian news site
Hackers opposed to the Russian military campaign in
Chechnya have attacked the website of the Russian news
agency Itar-Tass. The site was out of action for more
than an hour while computer technicians repaired the
damage. The hackers left a message on the Tass site,
which said: "We're here to fight evil and our power
is growing."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_561000/561576.stm
Computer criminals to wreak havoc over Y2K
Computer criminals could be preparing to use the
hysteria surrounding the millennium as a cover to
wreak havoc on IT systems. Although most companies
are lavishing attention on the bug itself, many are
overlooking the potential it offers for criminal
activity, consultancy firm Deloitte & Touche has
predicted. "There is a massive risk that the effects
of the millennium bug may be used to mask a dramatic
increase in fraud," said Mark Tantam, partner in charge
of Fraud Management Services at Deloitte & Touche.
http://www.computerweekly.com/pagelink.asp?page=article&link=%2Fcwarchive%2F
daily%2F19991213%2Fcwcontainer%2Easp%3Fname%3DC2%2EHTML%26SubSection%3D1
KGB Watches E-mail In Russia
A report in today's Times newspapers says that, while
Russian spy agencies are no longer watching the country's
citizens as intently as they were during the Cold War,
there is growing concern over e-mail surveillance.
As in Europe and the US until the early to mid-1990s,
there is little or no legislation in Russia to stop
government agencies from intercepting and eavesdropping
on online e-mail. This contrasts with the security
afforded written communications under Russian law.
http://www.currents.net/newstoday/99/12/13/news4.html
FC