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Ex-NASA volunteer is handed $1,000 fine
The husband of a former supervisor at the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration in Mountain View was fined $1,000 and
ordered to do 100 hours of community service Thursday for
intercepting e-mail to and from a woman who worked for his wife.
Brumfield said after court Thursday she believes Shallenberger
targeted her e-mail account to keep tabs on her after she gave
sworn statements in October 1997 against Matilde ``Dee''
in discrimination complaints that others had lodged against her.
http://www.sjmercury.com/premium/local/docs/email01p.htm
New 'Love Bug' charges urged
Philippine investigators asked Justice Department prosecutors
Tuesday to reconsider a decision to dismiss criminal charges
against a former computer student accused of releasing the
``ILOVEYOU'' computer virus. A panel of prosecutors dismissed
the charges against Onel de Guzman two weeks ago, saying they
did not apply to computer hacking and there was insufficient
evidence showing an intent to gain from the virus. When the
computer virus was released, on May 4, the Philippines had
no law against computer hacking.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/ap/docs/368575l.htm
ABN Amro e-banking service hacked
An investigative programme for Dutch TV has exposed security
flaws in national bank ABN Amro's e-banking service Home Net.
Hackers managed to breach defences and divert payments into
their own accounts. The money ran into thousands of guilders
(hundreds of pounds sterling) but went unnoticed by the bank.
The hackers also attempted to break into Rabobank's and ING's
home banking services but were thwarted.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/13033.html
New virus hides behind old technology
A new virus from the Czech Republic has anti-virus software
makers rushing to analyze the ability of so-called "files
streams" to infect PCs. File streams -- not to be confused
with audio and video streaming a la RealNetworks Inc. --
break programs up into a main code segment, or stream, and
several alternate ones. Used for sharing data between
programs, Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT technology first
debuted in the Windows NT file system, or NTFS, but is also
present in Windows 2000. Eugene Kaspersky, the head of the
Russian anti-virus research company Kaspersky Lab Ltd. and
the first to spotlight the Stream virus, theorized that hiding
malicious code in a file stream would make it harder to detect.
"Certainly, this virus begins a new era in computer virus
creation," Kaspersky said in a statement from Moscow. "The
'Stream Companion' technology the virus uses to plant itself
into files makes its detection and disinfection extremely
difficult to complete."
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2624500,00.html
Feds to Net Criminals: You Can't Hide
On the Internet as on the streets, you can run but you can't
hide--at least that was the message U.S. law enforcement
trumpeted on Thursday. Six days after a fake press release
lopped about $2.5 billion in market value off a California
based network equipment maker's stock, the authorities
touted an arrest in the case as proof that they were as
cybersavvy as anybody. "Anyone who would use the Internet
to commit a crime should also understand one thing: Do not
count on the Internet to serve as a shield for your illegal
conduct," U.S. Attorney Alejandro Mayorkas told a news
conference in Los Angeles. "We in law enforcement can
navigate the 'information superhighway' just as we can beat
the pavement to detect and apprehend criminals," he added.
http://www.pcworld.com/pcwtoday/article/0,1510,18331,00.html
New Web Site To Teach Kids Netiquette
The Justice Department and the Information Technology
Association of America (ITAA) today launched a new Web
site designed to help teachers and parents steer tech
savvy youngsters away from the dark side of the Internet.
The Web site, http://www.cybercitizenship.org, offers a
variety of resources for teaching kids the Internet's
legal rules of the road. The site also features a
"Current Events" section, which hosts news coverage on
cyber-ethics and cyber-crimes, along with a calendar of
events for educational programs. Cybercitizen.org also
offers a series of tidbits called "Teachable Moments,"
or tips to help parents use real-life events and news
stories to help them talk to their kids about cyber-crime.
In the site's Cyber Crime section, kids are warned about
downloading music files for free from the Internet,
"borrowing" online content for school reports, or
otherwise attempting to use their computer skills
to hack into places they don't belong.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/154727.html
Net crime set to rocket
'Get your security systems in order or suffer the
consequences!', says crime trends report The Association
of British Insurers (ABI) has warned UK businesses to put
their security systems in order or suffer the consequences,
raising the spectre of higher insurance premiums for
companies that want to protect themselves from online threats.
Future Crime Trends in the United Kingdom, a report published
last week by the ABI, warns business to expect cybercrime to
rocket in the next 20 years. The document was prepared by the
Building Research Establishment, an independent research group.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/35/ns-17684.html
UK Government "tags" citizens
It has emerged that under the newly introduced RIP Act, police
will be given powers to routinely monitor the movements of
mobile phone users with a minimum of accountability. Civil
liberties a advocates are outraged at the implications for
law abiding citizens. New legislation under the Regulation
of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act will negate the need for
a warrant issued by the Home Secretary to intercept and read
electronic communications. As of 5 October, when the Act
becomes law, the Home Secretary can be bypassed by requesting
a warrant from a police superintendent. The superintendent will
then have the power to order the use of positioning technology
to locate an individual using his/her mobile phone as a tracking
device.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2623481,00.html
Ancient virus catches out US government
The US government has been accused of scaremongering after
issuing a security alert about a virus which was discovered
more than a year ago. The National Infrastructure Protection
Centre (NIPC) issued the warning late on Friday. It concerned
a Trojan horse called DonaldD.trojan, which it said spreads
as an email attachment with the President of the Philippines
Joseph Estrada's nickname (erap estrada) in the subject line.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1110145
Palm Trojan Horse writer sued
Repentant mistake-making programmers beware: admit to your
error, and you could find yourself in court. That's what
appears to be happening to Aaron Ardiri, creator of the
Trojan Horse 'virus' that had the Palm world quaking in
its HotSync cradles t'other week. Details of the action
are as yet vague, though Palmstation.com notes it has been
confirmed by two separate sources. The plaintiff apparently
lost his or her applications after downloading the patch
presumably believing it to be an upgrade for an installed
copy of Liberty 1.1.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/13019.html
Hacker insurance becomes a priority
Insurance firms are hoping for a boom in business as
companies scramble to protect themselves against the rise
in computer crime. Internet fraud, email abuse, hacking
and viruses are among the crimes set to rise over the
next 20 years, according to research commissioned by the
Association of British Insurers (ABI). According to the
report - Future Crime Trends in the United Kingdom which
was prepared by independent research group Building
Research Establishment, increasingly sophisticated
hacking tools will make these crimes easier to commit,
even for the unskilled.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1110206
Hacking pays for Guardian iT
HACKERS at Guardian iT's newest business claim they can
break into 80% of all corporate websites within eight hours,
writes Nick Goodway. The point of the exercise is to improve
security for its clients in one of the fastest-growing areas
of internet support. Chief executive Peter MacLean says net
security, virtual data storage and a new internet hosting
centre in West London all show how the group is building on
its traditional base of disaster recovery and data management
and back-up.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/business_story.html?in_review_id=
313445&in_review_text_id=257545
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