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NASA denies hacker Attack danger
NASA officials denied reports Monday that a computer
hacker attack in 1997 endangered astronauts by
disrupting communications with the space shuttle
Atlantis. The British Broadcasting Corp. had reported
that during a rendezvous with the Russian space station
Mir, a hacker interfered with communications and forced
the shuttle crew to use the Russian station to maintain
contact with NASA. ``At no point did ground controllers
lose contact with the astronauts. That never happened,''
said National Aeronautics and Space Administration
spokesman Bob Jacobs.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/ap/docs/160477l.htm
Web page virus prompts security concerns
Antivirus experts have warned users to watch where they
surf after the appearance of a virus that can be caught
just by visiting a web page. Kaspersky Labs today issued
a warning about an internet worm called 'Jer' that was
placed on a website within the Geocities community. The
worm's author announced the website - entitled 'The 40
ways women fail in bed' - on several internet relay chat
(IRC) channels, attracting more than 1000 visitors on its
first day. When users visited the site they would have
received a warning from their system asking whether they
wanted to accept or reject an unknown script - which
unbeknown to them contained the worm.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1105489
Army 'geeks with guns' track down hackers
Late last year, Aaron J. Eden, a disgruntled Army private
stationed in Indianapolis, Ind., hacked into the Army's
Enlisted Records and Evaluation Center system and deleted
38,000 personnel-related files. At work, he was able to
install Back Orifice 2000, a remote control software
program that allowed him to access Army computers from
his home. He also installed a "sniffer," an application
that gathered passwords for him clandestinely. By using
these tools, Eden was able to pass himself off as a
systems administrator.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0700/070300j1.htm
Interpol needs help on Net crimes
Acknowledging international law enforcement's inability
thus far to combat fast-moving Internet crime, Interpol
is considering letting a Silicon Valley security company
help it protect businesses from malicious hackers. If
the partnership is reached, it would be the first time
the international police agency has paired with a private
company to fight Net crime, Interpol secretary general
Raymond Kendall told The Associated Press.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/ap/docs/166000l.htm
No Love for Computer Bugs
Anthony Carathimas, an intense, dark-haired college
student, is writing his first computer virus. His
eyes locked on his computer screen at Sandia National
Laboratories' Livermore branch, he tentatively types
a line: Cat virus >> /etc/profile.
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47155-2000Jul4.html
P3P: A green light for privacy on the Web?
Starting next year, Web sites that violate user privacy
are going to find themselves under an embarrassing cyber
spotlight. The sites will be targeted by a new technology
known as the Platform for Privacy Preferences, or P3P.
Developed by several companies and privacy advocates in
conjunction with the standards-setting World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C), the technology will alert surfers
whenever they encounter Web sites that seek to collect
more data than the user wants to share.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2598004,00.html
U.S. global surveillance system probed
French officials say American businesses reap benefits
from Echelon system's high-tech `economic espionage'.
A French prosecutor has begun a preliminary investigation
into whether the American global surveillance system,
which snoops on millions of telephone calls, faxes and
e-mails each day, is a threat to French well-being. The
prosecutor, Jean-Pierre Dintilhac, has ordered the French
counterintelligence agency, called DST, to appraise the
actions of the system, named Echelon. The system links
computers in at least seven sites around the world to
receive, analyze and sort information captured from
satellite communications.
http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/083091.htm
New legal storm on Net horizon
Amid the nearly constant stream of news coverage about
Internet security problems over the past six months,
most people probably didn't even register the recent
attack on Nike Inc.'s Web site. After all, Web sites
are attacked every day; Nike may be a high-profile
company, but there was nothing particularly unusual
about the incident itself. One of the victims is
preparing an extremely unusual response, however,
that could change the way we think of online security.
Scottish ISP FirstNet Online is preparing to sue the
shoe maker -- for "allowing" itself to be hacked.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2597881,00.html
Cyber laws emerge, but slowly
It took more than $8 billion in computer damage from the
"ILOVEYOU" virus for Philippine Republic Act 8792 to come
about. The country's week-old electronic commerce act lays
out how "hacking or cracking" crimes should be punished in
the Philippines. Love bug virus suspect, Onel de Guzman,
will not face charges under the new law, rather ones
already on the Republic's books that address theft and
credit card fraud. The Filipino government's
implementation of a new law raises the larger question
of what laws are in place to address the Internet globally.
http://idg.net/ic_195695_1773_1-483.html
High-Tech Spy vs. Spy
Transmeta chief executive David Ditzel chuckles at the
memory of the sudden interest in the company's trash
weeks before taking the wraps off its new, top-secret
Crusoe computer chip. But with hundreds of millions of
dollars of research on the line, keeping the
microprocessor's specifications secret was no laughing
matter.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/transmetaspy000701.html
'Grey hat' hackers redefine blackmail
After discovering a computer glitch in a slot machine,
an Edmonton programmer tried to sell his services to fix
the problem. But, Christopher Shulgan reports, he is now
in a legal battle with the company that he says treated
him like a crook.
http://www.ocregister.com/business/esigs00704cci1.shtml
Crackers are common criminals
Hackers have a certain romantic image - it's a bit like
Robin Hood; the small man against the machine; the
righter of wrongs, that sort of thing. On British TV the
other night, a young hacker from Wales was asked why he
had broken into a computer and downloaded several thousand
people's bank details. He replied that he had done it to
prove that the bank's security procedures were inadequate.
It should have been obvious that he had no criminal intent
and naturally hadn't done anything with the downloaded
details. If he hadn't done it, someone else would have.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/11763.html
Panorama puts teenage hackers under the microscope
The BBC's flagship investigative programme, Panorama,
on Monday attempted to unravel some of the mystery
surrounding the Love Bug worm, implicating one young
Filipino and revealing that the biggest threat to
governments and world trade is teenage hackers.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/26/ns-16393.html
KPMG Releases White Paper on High Tech Crime
E-Commerce and Cyber Crime: New Strategies for Managing
the Risks of Exploitation. This white paper focuses on how
organisations can use a comprehensive cyber defence program
to turn e-crime preparedness into a new competitive advantage.
It describes the business risks now evolving rapidly in
the electronic marketplace. It discusses how some attacks
take place as well as how some organisations are beginning
to protect themselves, both to deter and respond to attacks
and to avert further damage once an exploitation has taken
place. Finally, this document examines how the scope and
nature of e-crime is expected to change and how organisations
can prepare to meet those new challenges.
http://www.us.kpmg.com/assurance/New_strat/index.htm
Anti-hacker site raises hackles of online underworld
John Vranesevich doesn't worry about being enemy No. 1 of
the hacker community. He embraces it. "It's my job to catch
them, so it's like a cocaine dealer and a cop," said
Vranesevich, the lanky 21-year-old founder of AntiOnline.com.
The Web site, once a place where hackers bragged about their
exploits, is now an online security site used to catch them.
"It's not surprising that they wouldn't like me or what I'm
doing," said Vranesevich, who wears the hacker community's
disdain like a crown and considers it a necessary evil of
his work.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-2181558.html
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