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Date: Mon, Jan 1, 1999
From: Fred Cohen
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Subject: [iwar] Historical posting
Again, to this I offer my response on the Melissa writer. This is yet
another example.
From: Fred Cohen fc@a...
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/0,1643,500140335-500165691-500603
475-0,00.html
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