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Police, FBI warn of dangers of meeting someone online
When news broke this week that the deaths of
five women might be linked to contacts made on
the Internet, the story was familiar to McDonald
County Sheriff Don Schlessman. Within his small
slice of southwestern Missouri, Schlessman has
seen the potential for deadly results when
strangers come together after an online encounter.
http://www.kcstar.com:80/item/pages/home.pat,local/377484e4.606,.html
Hacker ``Mafiaboy'' likely to face more charges
The 15-year-old Canadian hacker known as ``Mafiaboy,''
charged in April with two counts of mischief in one
of the biggest cyber attacks in history, is very
likely to face more charges related to the jamming
of several well-known Web sites, the Quebec prosecutor
said Wednesday. The hacker, known online as Mafiaboy,
who cannot be identified under Canadian law because
he is a juvenile, was arrested by the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police in April. He was charged in connection
with a February 8 cyber attack that jammed CNN.com
and up to 1,200 CNN-hosted Internet sites.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/069599.htm
Case dropped against 'love' suspect
Authorities couldn't produce more evidence
implicating Reonel Ramones. Philippine authorities
said on Wednesday they had dropped a case against
a bank worker suspected of involvement in the
"Love Bug" virus, which caused billions of dollars
in damage to computers around the world.
http://www.msnbc.com/msn/417393.asp
Hawaii Legislature learns costly Web security lesson
The state Legislature's Web site was up and running
yesterday afternoon, the first time since hackers
caused state programmers to shut it down Memorial
Day weekend. But now, a protective firewall has been
installed. "They had no Web security," Detective
Chris Duque said. The Legislature's in-house computer
technicians installed six new hard drives at a cost
of $7,000. The six old hard drives must be turned over
to police for investigation. "The damaged hard drive
is really our evidence," Duque said. "Without that,
we don't have a case."
http://starbulletin.com:80/2000/06/06/news/story8.html
GTE hit with domain Hijack
GTE Internet, a nationwide ISP, became the latest
victim in a string of domain name hijackings over
the weekend, briefly losing their domain name GTE.net
to an unknown usurper, the Texas based company
confirmed Tuesday. "It was detected early Saturday
morning, and fixed on Sunday," said company spokesman
Jim Burkhardt. "We are now working with the proper
federal and state authorities."
http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/article.html?id=45
Registrar Examines Domain Hijacking Defenses
Network Solutions Inc., the mothership registry
for millions of Internet domain names, is taking
a closer look at the security behind methods used
to manage domain-related records following a rush
of address hijackings in the past week. However,
the company insists that such hijackings - involving
the unauthorized transfer of a domain to new owners
- are extremely rare, considering that tens of
thousands of records within the .com, .org and .net
address spaces for which it is responsible are added,
changed or transferred without problems every day.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/150173.html
Mounties don't always get their cyberman: e-crime expert
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has neither
the skills nor the resources it needs to fight
Canada's growing problem with cybercrime,
according to a computer forensics specialist who
quit the force's commercial crime section in
Vancouver. "Let's face it, the government has
good intentions, but they can't move at the
speed of the Internet," said Ren Hamel, 38.
"For me it's not a good enough reason to stay
behind."
http://www.canoe.ca/FP/jun7_mounties.html
Australian Parliament Passes Wiretapping Legislation
Australian spooks and cops are set to have an
easier time monitoring the telephone calls,
communications and even the computers of the
country's citizens with the passing of a new
bill through Parliament today. The
Telecommunications (Interception) Legislation
Amendment Bill 1999 was passed through Parliament
on Wednesday, aiming to aid law enforcement
officers investigating criminal activities
and intelligence collection by the Australian
Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO).
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/150247.html
Ukraine sings anti-piracy tune
Production has been suspended at five known pirate
CD plants that produce an estimated 70 million
discs a year, compared with the legal output
capacity of one million discs. The action plan
also includes strict supervision of factories.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/22/ns-15813.html
Check digital certificates in Internet Explorer 4 and 5,
users cautioned.
The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT)
Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University
in Pittsburgh today issued a warning that newly
found flaws in Internet Explorer could allow an
attacker to trick users into disclosing information,
such as credit-card numbers and personal data,
intended for legitimate Web sites.
http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000606E672
Popular firewall vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks
A security researcher has discovered a flaw in
a popular firewall that he says makes the tool
vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks. The
FireWall-1 product, developed by Checkpoint
Software Technologies Ltd. in Redwood City,
Calif., can apparently be disabled by
bombarding the tool with incomplete fragments
of data packets.
http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/(frames)/000607E692
Identity swapping makes privacy relative
Think privacy is a battle waged only in the
courts? Think again. It's guerrilla warfare,
consumers against the companies, and the
consumers hold more cards than they know.
"I'd say pretty much every customer database
has Elvis in it," says Kevin Mabley of Cyber
Dialogue, a firm that helps Net companies
manage relationships with their customers.
Its recent study of health sites found that
15% of people registering had provided false
names, 11% false e-mail addresses, and
10% false postal addresses.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/cc.htm
Mitnick: 'Use Hackers as a Resource'
Notorious hacker Kevin Mitnick is back in
court, challenging the terms of his probation
that forbid him from even talking about
computers. On Tuesday, Mitnick fielded questions
from reporters during a satellite media tour
sponsored by CIO magazine. Earlier this month,
he told the magazine that hiring hackers is the
best way for companies to learn about security
threats. The magazine says its poll of corporate
CIOs found nearly one in three willing to hire
Mitnick to advise them on security preparedness.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/cybercrime/hackingandsecurity/story/0,9955,2583262,00.html
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