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U.S. plots cyberwarfare strategy
The Pentagon plans to make cyber blitzes on a foe's computer networks a standard war tactic, the incoming number two U.S. military officer said Wednesday. After policy and legal issues are sorted out, cyber tactics should take their place in every commander's arsenal alongside bombs, cruise missiles and attack helicopters, Air Force Gen. Richard Myers told a Pentagon briefing. ``I think it's just going to be one more arrow in the quiver,'' said Myers, who takes over as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on March 1. The formal establishment of a cyberwar-fighting doctrine will build on covert military and intelligence capabilities that have been scattered in ``black'' programs in the past. http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/067619.htm

A'Hacking the Military Will Go
In a move to enlist hackers as part of the nation's defense, the US military is drafting a plan to penetrate and disrupt the computers of enemy nations, officials said Wednesday. "If you can degrade the air defense network of an adversary through manipulating 1s and 0s, that might be an elegant way to do it," said General Richard Myers of the US Space Command, which is coordinating the effort. Myers told reporters that Pentagon planners are currently devising general hacker-war procedures, which must be approved by the Secretary of Defense and should be complete by October. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33443,00.html

Judge critical of Army's efforts to keep its Web site secure A federal judge criticized the U.S. Army's efforts to keep its public World Wide Web site secure after a 20-year-old man said it was easy to hack into it. ``The Army didn't do its homework in the first instance,'' U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller said Tuesday. The judge commented as Chad D. Davis said pleaded guilty Tuesday to gaining unauthorized access to the site and altering its contents. Davis said he had hacked into the Army computer using information freely available on the Internet. He replaced the Army's opening Web page with the ``signature page'' of Global Hell, a nationwide group of hackers to which he belonged. http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/015418.htm


14 New Viruses Found After monitoring the Year 2000 virus and malicious code situation over the year-end date rollover, Network Associates is advising continued caution on Year 2000 viruses. The IT security firm said that even after a relatively uneventful New Year's holiday, there is still a need for continued vigilance as the world returns to work this week. There is, the firm said, a good chance that potential viruses may be lurking in people's e-mail. http://www.currents.net/newstoday/00/01/05/news4.html

Virus Flood Slowed
Starlabs, the UK information technology (IT) security enabled Internet service provider (ISP), says it stopped significant volumes of Y2K viruses from reaching its customers since midnight on Sunday, Jan. 2. Starlabs offers an automatic virus and malicious code filtering system to its business e-mail customers. The ISP reports that it stopped around 28 viruses in the early hours of this morning, and 56 viruses Monday, out of a total of
74,000 e-mails in total. http://www.currents.net/newstoday/00/01/05/news9.html

Can we provide security for the Internet and protect free speech at the same time? Now that the Y2K scare has dissolved like sugar in hot water, let us focus on two issues that need immediate attention -- security and privacy on the Internet. In particular, how we create space for these values and maintain freedom of speech at the same time. http://www.csmonitor.com/atcsmonitor/cybercoverage/bandwidth/p-010400bwhippies.html

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