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Private bank e-mail goes awry
What do a tiny bulletin board service in Virginia and one of
Spain=92s largest banks have to do with each other? Far too much.
Jim Caldwell has been running Bulletin Board VA =97 BBVA.com, for
short =97 for about four years, with a steady trickle of Web traffic.
But last fall, when Banco Bilbao Vizcaya of Spain merged with
Argentaria SA, the two formed BBVA. And ever since, Caldwell, in
his tiny rural Virginia BBVA.com office, has been receiving
hundreds of e-mails =97 some with sensitive bank information =97
destined for Spain.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/429181.asp
Taiwan To Create Cyberwarfare Center - Report
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense will set up a cyberwarfare
center to study strategic and tactical information warfare to
threats from Beijing, according to a report from the country's
national news wire. According to the report by the Central News
Agency, the Ministry of National Defense will establish the center
and an emergency task force to study possible defenses against
cyberwarfare and draw up response plans in the case of emergency.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/151751.html
Crypto Users Can't See FBI.gov
The question goes unanswered a week after users of a commercial
privacy service found themselves unable to access the Federal Bureau
of Investigation's fbi.gov site. "You can't access fbi.gov if you
have a Freedom 'nym' running," confirmed Dov Smith, spokesman for
Zero-Knowledge Systems, which runs Freedom.net, the privacy service
affected by the problem. Zero-Knowledge began an investigation after
postings by users of Freedom mentioned the problem last week on
the "cypherpunks" mailing list, a popular discussion forum for privacy
and encryption enthusiasts. The company and the FBI have yet to find
a likely cause, which could be political or technical in nature.
http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37425,00.html
FBI raises security issues on NTT-Verio acquisition
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has raised national-security
concerns about a Japanese company=92s attempt to acquire a U.S.
Internet service provider, signaling the government=92s increasing
worry about the globalization of, and its loss of control over,
telecommunications networks. In recent years, the FBI and other
security agencies have raised concerns about their ability to
maintain surveillance over telecommunications networks being
acquired by companies based outside the U.S. Now, law-enforcement
officials appear to be moving to extend their influence to
Internet deals, which generally aren=92t regulated by the Federal
Communications Commission but come before an obscure Treasury
panel called the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/429428.asp
U.S. firms silent over Chinese Net arrest
U.S. Internet companies, which often cite information technology
as the key to promoting free speech in China, have responded with
resounding silence to an urgent call for help from a human rights
group concerned about the detention of a Chinese Web site operator.
New York-based Human Rights Watch asked foreign companies involved
in developing China's Internet to protest the detention of Huang Qi,
who faces a long prison term for posting on his web site information
that offended the government.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/premium/front/docs/chinanet06.htm
Has 'Safe Harbor' Been Scuttled?
In a move that signals the international concern over online privacy
isn't waning, the European Parliament this week voted down the
proposed "Safe Harbor" agreement that would have allowed the export
of electronic data regarding European citizens to the United States.
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000706S0014
India, China mobile networks face fraud threats
Mobile phone service operators in China and India face large scale
fraud problems because of their surging user base, an industry expert
said. ``The vulnerability as far as Chinese networks and Indian networks
are concerned is due to the fact that they are new operations,'' David
McSweeney, chairman of the Asia-Pacific Fraud Forum for GSM mobile
networks, told Reuters on Wednesday.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/079694.htm
A Fight to Ban Cellphone Spam
Hundreds of unsuspecting AT&T wireless subscribers in April protested
when spam trickled from their PCs to cellular phones. AT&T customers
with cellphones equipped for text messages became irate when they
assumed the three loud beeps made by their cellphones was to alert
them of a family emergency -- not a promotion for cellphone
accessories.
http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37376,00.html
AOL Accused Of Privacy Violations
America Online Inc. has been accused of violating the rights
of its subscribers by using the Netscape Web browser to capture
the Web surfing activities of AOL subscribers. A class action
lawsuit was filed on Friday in the US District Court for the
Southern District of New York (New York City). The lawsuit also
names Netscape Communications Corporation as a co-defendant and
is seeking damages based on the number of users of the Netscape
Web browser.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/151732.html
Ars Technica recently posted a thorough examination of
Windows 2000 security issues and protocols savvy users can
use to protect their PCs from being transformed into a
staging ground for malicious DDoS attacks. This article is
worth the few cups of coffee it requires to diligently
read it, and I'd encourage PC monomaniacs to devote a
moment or two of their time to it.
http://arstechnica.com/tweak/win2k/security/begin-1.html
Web security: Know the enemy
When I planned my opening keynote speech for last week's
eWEEK/DCI Web Security Summit in Boston, it seemed natural
frame it in terms of the primary threats to an e-commerce
presence. At the head of my list of troubles were The
Persistent Attacker and The Unaware User. Over the course
of the three-day conference, both of these threats were
illuminated by several of our speakers. As to living in the
mind of the attacker, we were pleased to give our conference
attendees a Q&A session with a real live example. eWEEK Labs
Director John Taschek hosted a surprise appearance by Luis
Mora, the Gibraltar-based security consultant who successfully
cracked our security challenge site last fall.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2598106,00.html
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