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FBI investigating new Web attack
Top-five Internet service provider AboveNet Communications
suffered a denial-of-service attack on Tuesday -- raising
the specter of another round of Web attacks. Paul Vixie,
senior vice president of Internet services for Metromedia
Fiber Network Inc., AboveNet's parent company, said the
attack did not resemble February's spate of DoS attacks.
"This was not just a SMURF attack or some other broadcast
storm aiming meaningless data at our routers," Vixie said.
"It was a direct attack on our infrastructure."
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2555422,00.html
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-1760458.html
Santana Virus Spreads As Chernobyl 'Cure' - Kaspersky Lab
IT security firm Kaspersky Lab has issued a warning
over a new virus, Win32.Santana, which it said is
distributed as a "cure" for the infamous Chernobyl
or CIH virus. The Chernobyl virus, which is set to
trigger on April 26 each year, is always a problem
for IT managers, but several IT security firms
issued warnings last week about this year's
anniversary date.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/148053.html
Cops Bust Massive Identity-Fraud Ring
Twenty people are facing federal charges after
authorities in two states broke up a pair of alleged
identity-theft rings that operated for years by
infiltrating businesses where personal information
was stored, officials said.
http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/04/26/idtheft0426_01.html
Mom Gets E-mail From Dead Son
Cops: Messages Assured Her That He Was OK. He told
his mother he was visiting a troubled friend he had
met over the Internet. An e-mail message said he
was doing fine. He'd be back at Texas A&M University
in no time at all. Lucille Kujawa saw no reason to
worry. After all, the 20-year-old engineering student
was a model son, bright and hard-working, she said.
He was a young man who would do almost anything for
a friend but who was blessed with a solid ability to
steer clear of trouble. The truth was, Kerry Kujawa
was already dead when his mother received an e-mail
bearing his name, authorities said. He had been shot
once in the head, and his barefoot body left in a
remote stretch of rangeland in the Texas hill country.
http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/04/26/student0426_01.html
Judge Takes Murder Trial Offline
A Virginia judge pulled the plug on what's believed
to be the first live broadcast on the Internet of a
murder trial after defense lawyers complained that
sensitive microphones allowed computer users to
overhear confidential conversations with their client.
http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/internetcrime/2000/04/26/courtcam0426_01.html
G-8 cybercrime conference in Paris next month
The Group of Eight major industrialized nations
will hold a conference in Paris next month about
how governments and companies should interact when
confronted with cybercrime, officials said Wednesday.
The May 15-17 conference will be attended by
representatives of 150 major private firms alongside
delegations from G-8 states Italy, France, Britain,
Germany, Japan, Russia, Canada and the United States.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/024508.htm
DOD Web-watchers find war plans online
A new reserve unit that monitors the Defense Department=92s
presence on the World Wide Web has found an astonishing
amount of classified or sensitive material on public sites.
The Web Risk Assessment Team, established by the Joint
Task Force for Computer Network Defense, is made up of
reservists who spend one weekend each month scanning DOD
Web sites, according to Air Force Lt. Gen. John Campbell,
commander of JTF-CND.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/0424/web-jtfcnd-04-26-00.asp
DOD pushing forward on Internet disconnect
Despite criticism it received last year for a proposal
to disconnect from the Internet to bolster security,
the Defense Department remains committed to developing
a technical architecture that will allow it to do just
that, DOD=92s top cyberdefender said. Links that connect
DOD=92s Non-Classified Internet Protocol Routing Network
with the Internet pose the greatest security challenge,
according to Air Force Lt. Gen. John Campbell, commander
of the Joint Task Force for Computer Network Defense.
The NIPRNET is used mainly for administrative
communications.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/0424/web-dod-04-26-00.asp
Free, anonymous information on the anarchists' Net
London programmer Ian Clarke is putting a little bit
of anarchism back in the Net. Clarke and a growing
group of allied programmers are creating a kind of
parallel Internet called "Freenet," where censorship
is impossible, surfers are anonymous, and content
is moved and hosted automatically to points near
the people who want it. The nascent system is a
kind of cross between the Net-speeding tools
developed by Akamai Technologies and the Napster
MP3-swapping software, which is now shaking the
music world. Some developers say the mix has
created a system that stores and moves content
much more efficiently than the ordinary Web.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-1765097.html
India Eyes Cyberlaws
With estimates that nearly 2 million Indian citizens
will be online by 2001, the world's second-most populous
country is looking at ways to regulate cyberspace. India
is proposing a federal information technology bill to be
voted on next month. One of India's premier law schools,
based here, has plans to set up a national institute for
cyber-legal studies and research.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,35822,00.html
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