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May 22, 2000
FBI computer bug squad defends readiness
The FBI sounded the alarm about the "New Love" computer
virus Friday - just hours after congressional investigators
concluded that authorities have "not been effective" in
rapidly responding to computer threats. The eruption of the
polymorphic virus - so-called because the latest version
of the devastating "I LoveYou" e-mail virus is able to
change its name - again taxed law-enforcement officials'
ability to protect cyberspace. "We jump on these as quickly
as we can," said Michael Vatis, deputy assistant FBI
director and chief of the agency's National Infrastructure
Protection Center. "We started notifying other agencies at
approximately 2 a.m. (EDT Friday)."
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/body/0,1634,500206728-500288285-501556612-0,00.html
Outlook patch called overkill
When it comes to viruses, Microsoft can't win for
losing. Two weeks ago Microsoft Outlook was blasted
for being too loose with attachments, allowing the
love bug to run rampant. Now the software giant is
being blasted again, this time for clamping down
too hard. The controversy was prompted by a patch
set for release this week that blocks a broad array
of attachments, a blunt force effort to kill viruses
such as Melissa and the recent ILOVEYOU virus. The
patch for Outlook 98 and 2000 totally blocks
attachments such as .bat, .exe, .vbs. and 35 other
extensions. The patch also won't let programs access
the Outlook Address Book. The ILOVEYOU virus and
others used the address book to quickly spread their
havoc. Scripting, however, remains activated unless
a user manually blocks it.
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2000/0522outlook.html?nf
Security alert as thief grabs military laptop
A SECURITY review was under way last night after
a thief snatched an intelligence officer's laptop
computer from a London railway station. The thief
took the =A32,000 machine after following a naval
intelligence officer onto a train at Paddington.
Two months ago a laptop belonging to an MI5 officer
was snatched at the same station when he put it
down to buy a ticket. The computer, which was never
recovered, contained details of the Northern Ireland
peace deal.
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/05/21/stinwenws01039.html
MoD recovers top-secret laptop
Errant laptop with unprotected defence data returns
to the MoD. The Ministry of Defence recovered a stolen
laptop containing top-secret details of a =A3250bn
Anglo-US fighter plane project, a spokeswoman said
Monday. The data on the laptop, reportedly highly
sensitive to British national security, was neither
encrypted nor password-protected, according to press
reports. The laptop was taken from a intelligence
officer at a London rail station two weeks ago but
was returned to the Ministry of Defence Monday after
being handed in to the offices of The Mirror newspaper.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/20/ns-15504.html
State Dept. Tallies Missing Laptops
The State Department has discovered that a total
of 15 of the department's 1,913 unclassified
laptop computers have been reported stolen or
misplaced over the past 18 months, a State
Department official said yesterday. But the broad
survey conducted by the department's Bureau of
Diplomatic Security was able to account for all
of the 60 classified laptops with the exception
of the one highly classified laptop computer
reported missing last month.
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23562-2000May17.html
Modem-Dialing Scam Targets Web Surfers
A visit to a porn site results in an unwelcome surprise
for one victim. Like most college kids, Tore Loading
gets by on a small budget. In April of this year, while
the San Francisco college student was going through his
mail, he opened a phone bill large enough to throw his
slim finances into a tailspin. The bill contained charges
for two long-distance phone calls to Chad, Africa. Tore,
who is on scholarship from Norway, says he never made
the calls. The bill says it's for two phone calls to
Chad, Africa, for 31 minutes each and the total was
$357," Tore told Jennifer London.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/cybercrime/internetfraud/story/0,9955,2571684,00.html
Global Crossing files piracy lawsuit against Tyco
Global Crossing is suing Tyco Submarine Systems for
more than $1 billion, claiming Tyco stole its trade
secrets to create a rival business and to benefit
Global Crossing's competitors. Global Crossing,
based in Bermuda, is building a worldwide undersea
fiber-optic communications network. It says it hired
Tyco to help it build a network around South America
and Tyco pirated its secrets for its own business as
well as passing them on to Spain's Telefonica, which
is building a competing system.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/059925.htm
Hacker Rails Against New Worm
A computer hacker from Australia has the sneaking
suspicion that someone copied key aspects of a
nondestructive worm he circulated last week, and
turned it into the "NewLove" virus that panicked,
among others, the FBI and Janet Reno. But even if
this week's virus scare didn't use the source of
his "ILOVEYOUTOO" worm, "Valiant" thinks the real
culprits are naive, callow computer users who don't
know enough not to open unsolicited email attachments.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,36477,00.html
Four in ten claim Internet gender-bender -- study
Boys will be boys. Or will they? If you're chatting
on the Internet, there's a good chance the answer is
``no''. A study of more than 400 U.S. and Australian
participants in role-playing games and other interactive
online features found 40 percent had had cyber-sex
changes -- feigning an opposite sex persona at some
point.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/internet/docs/96934l.htm
Time to catch the virus copycats
It's the call of the wild for copycat virus writers
worldwide: "You too can cause the next viral epidemic!"
Heeding that call, the creators of more than 30 variants
of the ILOVEYOU worm plagiarized and modified the
original worm to create -- sometimes slightly different
and sometimes very different -- versions of the original
worm. The original writer of the virus is bad. These
copycat creators are far worse, and they are getting
away with it.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2573299,00.html
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