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Elecciones2000
Precipitating from a hostile political environment, this latest
virus can replicate itself and delete all of your files.
As most Peruvians are crying foul over the results of last
Sunday's election, PC users may be impacted by their political
unrest. Peruvians' passion for politics have been intertwined
with technology and protest to produce a new virus. The newly
discovered virus is a variant of the popular Melissa virus that
has plagued many businesses and people. The new variant is most
commonly known as Melissa.au but has aliases such as,
Elecciones.A, Elecciones2000, and W97M/Elecciones2000.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/stories/main/0,5594,2537573,00.html
Govt Response To Cyberattacks Slowed By Spoofing - NIPC
The government's ability to differentiate between cyberattacks
waged by hostile foreign nations and those perpetrated by teenage
hackers has been severely restricted by the emergence of identity
concealing technologies and a raft of legal and constitutional
issues, the director of the National Infrastructure Protection
Center (NIPC) said Wednesday. At an American Bar Association
meeting in Washington, NIPC Director Michael Vatis told corporate
lawyers that in response to such obstacles, the NIPC has heard
a growing call for the revision of laws that prohibit agencies
from conducting their own investigations into computer crimes.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/147366.html
Ethical hacker reveals secrets of underground world
A 20-year-old Brit who hacked into the Web sites of two
merchant banks last week can never be prosecuted. Chris
McNab, who says he has "one foot in the underground and
one foot in the corporate world", claims to have one of
the best jobs in the IT industry. He is an ethical hacker
for Kent-based MIS Corporate Defence Solutions. McNab,
whose goes by the official title of network security
analyst at MIS, gets to break into top banking and
multinational Web sites for a living. "Last week I broke
into two merchant banks. This job's fantastic," he grins.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/000412-000005.html
Users at fault over security
According to a leading security expert it is users, not
operating systems, that represent an organisation's security
weak spots. Speaking at the Infosecurity conference in London
today, Ira Winkler, president of the Internet Security
Advisers Group, said the big security issue is not whether NT,
Unix, or Linux is inherently more secure, but how seriously
administrators and users treat security.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/602095
Script kiddies -- geniuses or idiots?
Law enforcement officials, in their war against hackers,
have actually succeeded in tracking down a few naive
hackers/crackers who didn't know how to cover their tracks.
To validate their efforts, authorities exaggerated the skill
level of these kids from that of a script kiddie to that of
Neo, Morpheus, and Trinity from The Matrix. Say it ain't so.
It ain't so. For this installment of Wizard's Guide to Security,
Carole Fennelly tells what really happened.
http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-04-2000/swol-04-security.html
FC
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