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Hackers Attack Czech Government Web Site
Computer hackers attacked the Czech interior
ministry's web site on Wednesday, inserting
a defaced picture of Interior Minister Stanislav
Gross, a spokesman said. The hackers, signing
themselves "binary.division," also posted an
ironic message in German, saying "Welcome to
Gross' security service" in the early morning
attack on the web site for the interior ministry
and police. Ministry spokesman Samuel Truschka
declined to confirm or deny radio reports that
the intruders could have gained access to e-mails
from civil servants. The site, at www.mvcr.cz,
was closed about three hours after the computer
attack occurred, when officials noticed the
problem, he said.
http://www.centraleurope.com/news.php3?id=227845

FBI chimes in on Shockwave email virus
The FBI has joined a growing number of experts that
are warning computer users about a new email virus
that last week struck several U.S. companies and comes
disguised as an Internet movie. Although it carries
no destructive payload, the virus, which is an Internet
worm, routinely sends itself to a victim's email
address book, making it possible to clog email networks
with its mass mailing capability, the FBI's Washington,
D.C.-based National Infrastructure Protection Center
warned.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-4045009.html
http://www.nipc.gov/warnings/assessments/2000/00-061.htm

Guard tapped for infowar duties
The Pentagon formally tapped the National Guard
and reserves to shore up the Defense Department's
information warfare apparatus Wednesday, calling
for 182 reserve officers and enlisted staff with
information technology backgrounds to form five
support teams. The teams -- known as "joint
reserve information operations and information
assurance organizations" -- will be on the
Pentagon's front line of information warfare.
The Defense Department has had a difficult time
keeping highly trained IT specialists when far
more lucrative offers abound in the private sector.
However, many of those skills are resident in the
reserve component, where part-time soldiers work
full time in information technology.
http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=142127
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Dec2000/b12062000_bt728-00.html

Hackers to release software to open net to China, Cuba and Iran
An international group of computer programmers
plans to release software to bypass Internet
restrictions imposed by countries such as China,
Cuba and Iran, one of the programmers said yesterday.
The group, known as ``The Cult of the Dead Cow,'' is
a 16-year-old international alliance of anonymous
computer hackers. Its software will work much like
Napster, software that allows computer users to pass
digital music files among themselves via the Internet.
According to ``Oxblood Ruffin,'' a pseudonym for a
software engineer who is one of the cult's founders,
the software will allow users to bypass local servers
blocking access to certain Web sites. Since 1996, the
Chinese government has banned access to about 100
sites, including ones carrying news reports about
China. Cuba and Iran also limit access to sites they
deem inappropriate for their citizens. Ruffin said
the program, which was small enough to fit on a
single floppy disk, would be distributed by a human
rights organisation.
http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/breaking/20001207/A60953-2000Dec7.html

Building Information Assurance
The focus of information security efforts is to
provide management with reasonable assurances
that corporate data and the information their
network processes is accurate and protected.
Back in the days of vacuum tubes when television
was mostly black and white, a variety show known
as "The Ed Sullivan Show" was presented every
Sunday by the same network that now brings you
"60 Minutes." A frequent guest on the show
throughout the years was a ventriloquist that
would open a small door and ask his sock puppet,
"So right?" and the puppet would answer, "So
right!" In the modern age of the Dilbert comic
strip, management dialogue with security
departments seems to remain the same and any
answers to the contrary are not welcomed, are
ignored or require extensive justification by
security personnel.
http://securityportal.com/articles/infoassurance20001207.html

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