[iwar] Historical posting
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Date: Mon, Jan 1, 1999
From: Fred Cohen
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Subject: [iwar] Historical posting
U.S. military's Y2K solution: Close sites
The U.S. military will shut down some of its Internet
sites this weekend during the rollover to the year 2000
to protect against computer hackers, a Pentagon
spokeswoman said on Wednesday. There is no across the
board Pentagon directive that all defense department
Web sites be temporarily taken offline, said Susan Hansen.
"If commanders or individual (military) installations feel
this is warranted, they have that option,'' she said.
But the Pentagon's central Internet site will remain up
and running during the rollover, Hansen said. The U.S.
Air Force announced on Tuesday that its Web site managers
were given permission to close their sites around the
New Year to guard against computer hackers.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2415154,00.html
Pentagon paymaster shutting site for Y2K
The Defense Department agency that pays military personnel
and contractors temporarily will shut its Internet site to
protect against computer hackers during the changeover to
the year 2000, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday. The Defense
Finance and Accounting Service, which disburses $24 billion
a month, will take its Web site offline from 6 p.m. Thursday
to 6 a.m. on New Year's Day.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/newsbursts/0,7407,2415291,00.html
Big groups act on e-mail threat
Some of the UK's largest companies are blocking
electronic mail over the New Year in a bid to thwart
the arrival of a threatened wave of up to 200,000
computer viruses. The move mirrors growing fears in
the United States that "cyber-terrorists" and
anarchists will try to mark the millennium by
sabotaging computer systems.
http://www.ft.com/hippocampus/q312522.htm
FC