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Reno says ``Mafiaboy'' hacker must face punishment
Attorney General Janet Reno said Wednesday a
15-year-old boy arrested in Canada for jamming the
CNN.com Web site and other sites in February must
face punishment. Canadian police in Montreal
announced charges against the 15-year-old hacker
known online as ``Mafiaboy'' for jamming the CNN.com
Web site and up to 1,200 CNN-hosted sites for four
hours Feb. 8.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/034701.htm
Montreal Police charge Web suspect
Canadian police have charged a suspect in the cyber
attacks against CNN, Yahoo, Ebay, Amazon.com, Excite
and Etrade. A statement released Tuesday by the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police said the suspect was charged
Monday, but did not specify the charges or release
the suspect's name. Media reports, however, said a
15-year-old Canadian boy known online by the nickname
Mafiaboy was arrested in the attacks on major Web
sites in February. The attackers prohibited people
from accessing Web sites by bombarding them with data.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/ap/docs/443821l.htm
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2552353,00.html
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1717149.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/396994.asp
Security experts: Give 'Mafiaboy' a break
Security professionals and hackers that break into
networks for a living urged compassion in the case
of 'Mafiaboy,' the 15-year-old Internet vandal
accused of bringing down CNN.com during February's
denial-of-service attacks. "I think our overreaction
to this is a bit much," said Craig Ozancin, senior
security analyst with network security firm Axent
Technologies Inc. and a speaker at NetTrends 2000
here in Salt Lake City. "He's 15 years old. One
would hope he'd learn his lesson."
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2552944,00.html
Downing Street Computers Reportedly Infected by
Russian Macro Virus Says Russian Paper
Ahead of Vladimir Putin's visit to London, Russian
hackers decided to familiarize the British prime
minister, Tony Blair, with Russian folklore. A virus
of Russian origin recently infected all the computers
at 10 Downing Street. The ZDNet news agency reports,
citing the local press, that the presence of the virus
was revealed by the fact that proverbs and sayings
such as "He who shoots last laughs longest" and
"Don't leave until tomorrow what you can drink today"
began to appear on the screens of the infected computers.
http://www.russiatoday.com/bbcmonitor/bbcmonitor.php3?id=3D152777
Domain War Motive a Guess
Was the recent rash of domain-name hijackings really
part of a Balkan info-war? That is the most intriguing
question lingering in the aftermath of an especially
hard-hitting campaign of domain-name takeovers that
blasted registrar Network Solutions last week.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,35708,00.html
NSF launching grants for cybercorps
The National Science Foundation is expected to release
applications next month for grants that would fund the
Federal Cyber Services program designed to train the
next generation of digital defenders. The NSF grants
would be available to colleges and universities, which
would use the money to award scholarships to students
to study information assurance. These students would
receive the scholarships in exchange for full-time
employment with a federal agency upon graduation.
The students would help protect the government's
systems from cyberattack.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/0417/web-cyber-04-19-00.asp
Litronic to secure DOD e-mail
The Defense Department Tuesday awarded a $500,000
contract to Litronic Inc. to provide high-security
software for the department's secure e-mail system.
Under the contract, the more than 300,000 DOD employees
using the department's Defense Messaging System (DMS)
can download Litronic's Fortezza digital signature and
encryption package to run on Microsoft Corp.'s
Windows 95,98, NT and 2000 systems.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/0417/web-dms-04-19-00.asp
What price cyber security?
Security experts say billions of dollars are being
spent to safeguard material on the Internet, and a
lot of that money is wasted. Small users have little
protection if their information is taken from a
database, but they can guard what they put out into
cyberspace, particularly intheir e-mail.
http://www.cnnfn.com/2000/04/19/technology/v_cyber/#TOP
Mafiaboy Reaction: 'Yeah, Right'
The hacking community is skeptical that the Canadian
Royal Mounted Police have nabbed the perpetrator
of February=92s highly publicized denial of service
attacks. Following news that the Mounties charged
a Montreal juvenile in the attacks, hackers are
demanding evidence that the 15-year-old known by
the alias "Mafiaboy" was indeed involved. "I=92m
highly skeptical," said B.K. DeLong, a member of
Attrition.org, an Internet security group that
monitors and archives website cracks and
defacement. "I don't think they've found the
person who did the attacks. I think law
enforcement is stalling the press and public to
keep them off their backs while they find the
real person," DeLong said.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35785,00.html
PSINet hit by denial-of-service attack
A denial-of-service attack on PSINet Hong Kong on
Wednesday disabled the Internet service provider's
Web-hosting servers for most of the day, leaving
many of its dotcom customers without e-mail and Web
sites. However, more than a day after the attack took
place, the ISP was still unable to determine whether
it was the result of an outside hacker or an internal
blunder. William Kwan, president PSINet Hong Kong,
said "unusual amounts of traffic were generated by
a desktop computer through the network", which might
have been caused by a programmer checking data traffic.
http://www.technologypost.com/internet/Daily/20000420194747504.asp
=A3750m lost in telephone fraud, report
Telephone fraud cost British businesses =A3750m last
year, according to figures from the Telecommunications
UK Fraud Forum. Most common in telecoms fraud is
illegally routing calls through a company's switchboard
which has been known to cost a single business around
=A320,000 in a single weekend.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/15/ns-14953.html
Government Plans Computer Lock-Down
Key U.S. government Chief Information Officers said
Wednesday that a comprehensive computer security plan
to be released this summer will clear the way for a
new wave of government functions and services to be
safely put on the Internet. "What we are doing now
is developing a series of benchmarks that would allow
us to provide to agencies examples of good security
practices tied to a specific set of government
services," said Department of Energy CIO John Gilligan.
"We're going to draw a series of examples and use those
examples to draw what we think are benchmark security
and privacy practices, then share that with the various
agencies."
http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/article.html?id=3D21
FC
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