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FBI agent describes front line of war on cybercrime
An FBI agent who leads a computer crimes squad in
New Orleans said Thursday that, with the global
Internet population currently at 245 million users
and expected to hit 375 million by year=92s end, the
amount of "e-crime" will rise as well. "The problem
with the Internet is only going to get worse,"
Special Agent Will Hatcher, who heads the FBI=92s
National Infrastructure Protection/Computer
Intrusion Squad, told law-enforcement officials
from metro New Orleans.
http://www.theadvocate.com/news/story.asp?StoryID=3D13394
Britain defends plan to snoop on Web surfers
Plans to allow British security services to monitor
Internet traffic will not create an all-seeing
cyberspace spy, the government said on Friday.
Civil liberties groups have said the Regulation
of Investigatory Powers (RIP) bill would give
police free rein to snoop on Internet users and
could lead to people being jailed for forgetting
their computer passwords.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/internet/docs/37464l.htm
Web site kills murder trial
A Web site that caused a judge to abort a murder
trial has been warned it runs the risk of facing
"serious sanctions." Two days into a murder retrial
in Melbourne, Australia, Justice George Hampel of
Victoria's state Supreme Court discharged the jury
and aborted the trial because he was concerned the
proceedings may have been prejudiced by a downloadable
document that detailed the accused's alleged criminal
history. The offending dossier was posted in
"Criminals Database" -- a searchable database on
CrimeNet, an Australian site that sells background
information on convicted criminals for $US 3.45 per
download.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2577241,00.html
G8 ponders international data security
Governments of the G8 industrialised nations are
to step up cooperation in policing the Internet
following Denial-of-Service attacks and worms such
as Love Letter. Meeting in Paris recently, G8 leaders
called for stronger and faster communications links
between existing national crime-fighting organisations.
However, they rejected calls for an "Internetpol" =AD
a new international body of digital police.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/20/ns-15620.html
Mitnick gains legal muscle in challenge of speaking ban
Hacker celebrity Kevin Mitnick will get some free
high-powered legal help as he prepares to challenge
a condition of his prison release that effectively
bars him from writing or speaking about the computer
industry. Publisher Steven Brill, who is in talks to
hire Mitnick as a columnist for his Contentville Web
site, has retained New York attorney Floyd Abrams in
an effort to lift the restriction, which was ordered
last month.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1951220.html
Foiling the Internet Spooks
A new security standard due in summer 2000 will
dramatically improve end-user security=97and just in
time. With accusations that governments may be prying
into Internet e-mail, network managers need a faster,
more powerful encryption algorithm than ever before.
http://www.networkmagazine.com/magazine/current/0005global.htm
The cyberstalking hype
"Common sense and some growing anecdotal evidence
would tell you that cyberstalking is a growing
problem," said Associate Deputy Attorney General
John Bentivoglio, who handles cybercrime and
cyberstalking issues at the Department of Justice.
That's when alarm bells went off in my head.
Is cyberstalking really a plague, an international
menace or a rare crime?
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2577187,00.html
Sir Dystic on the "Real Hacks"
The next time you're confronted with an email
attachment, you may be dealing with something
more than a mere virus. Sir Dystic, who is best
known for authoring the original BackOrifice,
tells us what the media has been missing in PC
security. Here's a transcript of what the
outspoken member of the Cult of the Dead Cow
said in this week's CHAOS Theory.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/cybercrime/chaostheory/story/0,9955,2576961,00.html
The Breach That's Shocking the Firewall Industry
In an age of increasing hacker attacks, calling any
computer-security product "The World's Most Secure"
would seem to be inviting disaster. But that didn't
stop Network Associates from proudly making the claim
about its flagship Gauntlet firewall system. In fact,
this month's issue of Network magazine gives Gauntlet
its prestigious "Security Product of the Year" award.
That was no consolation on May 19, when a San Diego
computer engineer found a flaw in Gauntlet while
performing a routine security audit, BW Online has
learned. The flaw, if exploited, could allow hackers
to break into tens of thousands of supposedly protected
computer networks. The engineer, Jim N. Stickley,
immediately notified Santa Clara (Calif.)-based
Network Associates and helped it come up with a fix
for the program.
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/may2000/nf00526f.htm
Flaw found in PGP 5.0
Researchers say they've found a security flaw in
the process by which an older version of Pretty Good
Privacy (PGP) encryption software reads random
numbers, making the cryptographic keys potentially
insecure. The flaw was discovered in the PGP 5.0 code
base and is specific to Linux and OpenBSD command-line
versions.
http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/(frames)/000526E30E
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