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Downing Street struck by Russian virus
Number 10 Downing Street was last week infiltrated by a
nonsensical Russian computer virus, according to press
reports. The virus was reportedly sent to the department
within Number 10 that is responsible for spreading
information about the threat of the millennium bug. This
department is apparently so good at spreading information
that, according to The Sunday Times, it immediately
distributed the virus to every regional wing of the
Central Office for Information (COI).
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/14/ns-14723.html
This 'Virus' Is an Apparition
It takes guts to say "Jesus." And it takes a gullible
Internet user to believe that simply opening an email
bearing that subject header will wipe out a hard drive
with the simple click of a mouse. The faux virus warning,
which originally circulated in 1998, has resurfaced and
is circulating like mad over the Internet, appearing in
mailboxes everywhere and zigzagging its way through
message threads faster than you can say, "Good Times."
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,35465,00.html
Anonymous email could be abolished
The ability to communicate anonymously online is being
abused by criminals, including paedophiles, and should
be abolished according to a European Parliament
committee. The Committee for Citizen's Freedoms Rights,
Justice and Home Affairs, will advise the European
Parliament on Monday to ban the use of anonymous email
in order to increase online surveillance of those
convicted of child sex offences across Europe. If
approved, the recommendation would effectively outlaw
anonymous email communications for all European Internet
users.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/14/ns-14710.html
Home is where the hack is
For many broadband users, it is becoming a rude awakening
to learn that being connected around the clock to the
Internet is not just a Valhalla of always-on convenience.
Right now, about one in four computers hooked up to
broadband connections is vulnerable. By 2003, that could
mean 1 million computers that are vulnerable to having
their cookies stolen, their hard drives rifled and their
operations commandeered.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,35465,00.html?&_ref=831320112
Peru monitors probe possible Internet cafe vote fraud
Election monitors said Monday they were investigating
allegations that at least one of Peruvian President
Alberto Fujimori's party members used an Internet
cafe to insert votes into the National Election
Office's Website.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/internet/docs/411861l.htm
Intel may open source code for Web security software
Intel said it plans to distribute free an "open-source"
version of its security software, according to reports.
With the move, the giant chipmaker is aiming to boost
its support for the free Linux operating system and to
further its ambition to become the provider of security
"building blocks" that will enable the growth of Internet
commerce, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing Terry
Smith, an Intel executive. The software puts in place a
group of security functions called Common Data Security
Architecture, which encompasses encryption and "ways of
assigning and managing digital certificates" that guarantee
a person's or company's identity.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1674098.html
City firms warned of hackers in disguise
Police have warned city firms to beware of hackers attempting
to infiltrate their companies and sabotage their computer systems
in the run up to anti-capitalist demonstrations in London on
Mayday. Firms were warned by Inspector Norman Russell -- top
ranking crime prevention officer with City police -- to be
especially vigilant when taking on temporary staff in an
interview with the London Evening Standard, published Monday.
Russell says: "We are advising these institutions to watch out
for people taking jobs for a few weeks with the intention of
infiltrating the systems and preparing them for hacking attack."
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/14/ns-14734.html
The case of the missing White House e-mail
Computer technology is creating more than just new businesses.
It is also creating new opportunities for political investigators,
consultants, and press officials. Exhibit A: the charge by House
Republicans that the White House hid e-mails from investigators'
subpoenas for two years. Exhibit B: the response by White House
officials that e-mail technology is so complex that the e-mails
were lost accidentally and it will take six months and up to
$3 million to recover them.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0400/041100b2.htm
Overseas hackers using SingNet accounts to surf
"MALICIOUS hackers" from overseas have been racking up surfing
bills for unsuspecting SingNet customers by using their Internet
accounts, The Straits Times has found out. The hackers, many of
whom have been traced to Thailand, take advantage of a facility
called global roaming, provided by SingNet. The facility allows
users who travel overseas to call up a service provider there to
connect to SingNet, so they save on IDD charges. The number of
complaints from customers who said their accounts have been used
by other people peaked at around 50 a month in November and
December, said SingNet's product development manager,
Mr Lee Wan Fei. SingNet, which has a 260,000 customer-base,
sees the cases as fraud and have referred them to the police.
http://www.straitstimes.asia1.com/singapore/sin20_0407.html
Net users fighting for anonymity
Internet users concerned about privacy are looking to
technology, education and government to ease their fears
about Web sites that can track their every click. What
people want, say professors, government leaders and
business executives who gathered here for a Computers,
Freedom and Privacy conference, is the same anonymity
they get when they stroll through stores in a mall.
''People should be able to control information about
themselves,'' said James Rule, a sociology professor
at the State University of New York's Stony Brook campus.
''If someone makes money from information about myself,
I think I should have a say.''
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cth705.htm
UK Anti-Censorship Web Site Censored
An anti-Internet censorship Web group has had its Web
site taken off-line by its Internet service provider (ISP)
without notice. The move follows editorial comments made
about the legal liability of ISPs for the postings of their
customers. Civil liberties Web site, the Campaign Against
Censorship of the Internet in Britain (CACIB), said its
site was deleted by Instant Web, its ISP, following a
complaint from Laurence Godfrey, a civil activist, about
the reporting of censorship in the UK.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/147293.html
'Spammers' New Calling: Cell Phones
Mike Malarkey, a business-development manager for the District
based educational Web developer Blackboard Inc., was in the
middle of a meeting last Thursday when his Nokia cell phone
chirped, sounding a bit like the low-battery warning. When
he checked it after the meeting, he saw that the battery was
fine, but he'd just received a text message on the phone's
screen - an advertisement for a Web site selling cell-phone
accessories. "I'm just surprised that it's progressed to
phones," said Malarkey. He was one of the first recipients
of an apparently novel kind of unsolicited electronic
advertising, or "spam," sent via the text-messaging service
on his AT&T Wireless phone.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/147264.html
Cryptography Versus Privacy?
Cryptography is usually thought of as a technique that
protects privacy. And indeed, that is precisely its function;
it protects the secrets of the person who is using it. But
today, people are concerned that cryptography is being used
in ways that allow the people who are using it to compromise
the privacy of other people.
http://securityportal.com/research/cryptovspriv20000411.html
Infosec 2000 - NTSL-Certified Hard Disk Shredder
Blancco has taken the wraps of the Data Cleaner, a hard disk
data shredder designed for 32-bit Windows PC environments.
Launching the package on day one of the Infosec 2000 IT security
show, which opened in London this morning, the firm said that
the 24.95 pound ($40) software is cheaper and more effective
than competing applications already on the market. In addition,
the company says, the Blancco Data Cleaner has been thoroughly
tested by the National Software Testing Laboratories (NSTL),
the independent IT testing organization.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/147288.html
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