[iwar] Historical posting
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Date: Mon, Jan 1, 1999
From: Fred Cohen
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Subject: [iwar] Historical posting
Warnings of hacker onslaught in days ahead
IT security firm Para-Protect has warned that
hackers are using the Y2K issue and the quiet
New Year period to stage a series of attacks
on computer systems. The firm has warned that
computer hackers continue to plan and announce
their intentions to take advantage of confusion
and technical problem during the Y2K rollover
to break into systems. The reason for this surge
in hacker activity, the firm says, is that
companies and institutions that took their systems
off-line for the 48 hours over the year-end are
being noted by hackers as ideal targets when the
systems come back on-line today.
http://www.technologypost.com/enterprise/DAILY/20000103103004432.asp
Viruses, not Y2K, hitting computers: Campbell
VIRUSES rather than the Y2K bug were hitting
computers around the world, the Federal Government
warned yesterday. Parliamentary Secretary for
Information Technology Ian Campbell said no further
Australian Y2K glitches had emerged. "But there has
been a massive worldwide spread of viruses under
the cover of Y2K,'' Senator Campbell said. He did
not have details about the viruses or what kind of
damage they caused, but said Australian computers
were being hit. The viruses appeared to be mainly
spread through e-mail and struck when recipients
opened attachments to e-mail messages.
http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/breaking/20000103/A4627-2000Jan3.html
Reporter's notebook: No chaos at Hackers' Chaos Congress
While the rest of Germany relaxed and celebrated
the holidays, 1,400 members of the hacking community
last week got down to business as Hamburg's Chaos
Computer Club held its 16th annual Chaos Computer
Congress in Berlin. But it wasn't computer business
as usual - more like a strange mix between Comdex
and a concert by industrial music band KMFDM. In a
gray convention center in Berlin, CCC's annual
congress started off in the mornings with the light
sounds of trance music over the public address system,
closing up in the evenings with some of the crowd
wandering out and many others sitting awake until the
wee hours of the morning, kept up by a diet of Jolt
("America's Intensive Cola") and beer.
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2000/0103hackmeet.html