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Zhirinovsky: 'I'll celebrate by hacking'
Russia's maverick politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky, whose
ultra-nationalist bloc looks set to do well in a
parliamentary election, said on Monday he would celebrate
by hacking into Western computers. Zhirinovsky's bloc was
running at more than eight percent in early results
compared with pre-election opinion polls which had given
him some five percent. Asked to have a drink to mark his
party's good showing, he said: "No. No way, we Russians
don't drink any more. We now work on computers, we use
computers to send viruses to the West and then we poach
your money. We have the best hackers in the world. We do
not need to drink or smoke...We do not drink,
smoke, have drugs and we don't have AIDS, that's what you
have got in the West."
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2411665,00.html

First-e claims hate mail came from customer
Anonymous accusation of customer 'chaos' is untrue,
claims online bank Internet bank First-E has suggested
that a disgruntled customer may have sent out an email
to thousands of people claiming that money has disappeared
from its customer accounts. General manager Richard Thackery
says that this is the most likely explanation for the email
that he describes as "factually completely inaccurate".
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/1999/50/ns-12269.html

Computer security teams brace for attacks
Computer security teams are bracing for attacks by two
programs hat enlist multiple systems to launch coordinated
attacks on Web servers. Concern is mounting that the two
programs, called Tribe Flood Network and Trinoo, will show
their colors in the near future. The programs, when installed
onto hundreds or thousands of computers, simultaneously
bombard a select point on the Internet. If the information
from the attackers comes fast enough, the target computer
freezes up.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1501144.html

eToys attacks show need for strong Web defenses
Network-based attacks against eToys last week and the
emergence of a particularly destructive method for
launching such raids are fresh reminders of the need
for e-commerce sites to keep their defenses sharp.
Online retailer eToys has taken legal steps to prevent
a Swiss art group from using the domain name etoy.com.
Last week, that move prompted an Internet activist
group to launch what are known as denial-of-service
attacks on the toy seller's Web site with the intent
of bringing it down.
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/1999/1220etoys.html

An epidemic of hacking may prove to be worse
than Y2K's millennium bug.
HACKERS who broke into Eircom Net's Internet server last
weekend and others who have attacked the servers of Cork
Institute of Technology and RTI recently are indicative
of an increase in criminal computer activity approaching
the millennium, a computer security specialist warned this
weekend.
http://www.independent.ie/1999/352/b17g.shtml

Digital vandalism hits Irish websites
Site cracking: Eircom's share price may not be thriving,
but at lunchtime on Friday, December 10th, its Internet
subsidiary Eircom.net was looking positively sick. Someone
had broken into its web server and defaced the main page,
replacing it with one of their own. The replacement page
appeared just after 1 p.m. and 15 minutes later Eircom
shut down the site, along with some customers' sites.
Eircom.net stayed down for six hours. It was the best-known
one, but it was not the only Irish website affected in a
binge of site-cracking that week.
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/computimes/1999/1220/compu3.htm

Hack bugs Government's Y2K website
A STATE Government website dealing with Y2K issues was taken
down for the day today after a security breach. The password
protected site at www.y2k.dpc.vic.gov.au was changed to show
the name of a hacker calling themselves "Net Illusion",
sometime between 7am and 8.30am.
http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/breaking/19991220/A48742-1999Dec20.html

Feds leave doors open for hackers
After repeated break-ins through the same door, a
shaken business owner likely would get the message
and buy a sturdy lock, a big dog or a loud alarm.
But many agencies have failed to follow such common
sense. Repeated intrusions of federal World Wide Web
sites reveal that agencies are not adequately training
their IT sentries to take advantage of readily available
systems security solutions.
http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1999/1220/fcw-newshackers-12-20-99.html

Federal Web sites that have been defaced since Oct. 20:
http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1999/1220/fcw-newshackers-list-12-20-99.html

Security game: Playing for keeps
DISA-produced game includes hacker attacks and budget
constraints Would you be interested in a way to train
network administrators about security that is fun and
inexpensive? The Defense Information Systems Agency has
produced a new interactive training CD that might fit
the bill. CyberProtect is an interactive game that enables
players to practice the implementation of network security
without actually placing their production network at risk.
http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1999/1220/fcw-newsgame-12-20-99.html

FC