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Patriotic hacker attacks Guatemalan site
The country's tax system took its internet web site out of
service for several hours on Tuesday after an attack by hacker
who claimed to be defending the country's honor. In an e-mail
message sent to major newspapers, "Hack" claimed to have been
offended by a recent story in the daily Prensa Libre which
assured that Guatemala had no computer hackers. "I deny that,
not in order to harm anyone or to gain anything, but simply
to clarify that there are very capable people in our country,"
the hacker wrote.
http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2000/09/05/hacker/index.html
Theft of Defence Computer Equipment
The Minister for Defence, John Moore, today said that he would
be insisting on improvements to security of Defence Department
computer equipment, following the theft of desktop and notebook
PCs. Over an eighteen month period from January 1999, 273
computers have been stolen or lost. Of the 55,000 desktop PCs
used by 86,000 Defence personnel, this represents a loss rate
of less than one-third-of-one percent (0.3%). 129 of the
missing units are portable notebook PCs, which represents 1.8%
of the 7,000 notebooks used across Defence. "While I am advised
that the portable computer loss rate in the private sector is
much higher at between 10% and 15%, any misappropriation of
Defence assets remains of serious concern," Mr Moore said.
http://www.minister.defence.gov.au/mintpl.cfm?CurrentId=144
SEC takes actions against alleged stock manipulation online
Federal regulators on Wednesday announced actions against
33 companies and individuals that allegedly used the Internet
to defraud investors by manipulating prices of small-company
stocks. It was the Securities and Exchange Commission's fourth
nationwide ``sweep'' against online investment scams, which
have cost investors millions in recent years.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/035925.htm
Hackers costing Australian defense
Top-secret computers at Australia's Department of Defense
were attacked more than 20 times last year by hackers,
according to recent reports. The trend of attacks will
require defense to allocate more resources to protect
their information systems, according to The Sunday Telegraph
in Australia. Currently, they spend more than AUD8 million
(USD4.608 million). About AUD1 million (USD576,100) of that
is being invested in a crack team of hacker busters to prevent
assaults on computer systems. The Australian Department of
Defense says that most of the attacks are scans of the
firewall, which protects their internal computers containing
classified documents from the open world of the Internet.
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/?f=VS&art_id=905356020
Senate debates FBI's trustworthiness
At a hearing on Capitol Hill yesterday, weeks of technical
and philosophical debate over "Carnivore," the FBI's
controversial e-mail-sniffing tool, came down to one basic
issue: trust. Can the public trust the government to limit
its use of the system to capturing spies, hackers and
terrorists while protecting the privacy of law-abiding
Americans? Or should that trust be given to another party
that would administer the online taps?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/456669.asp
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/09/07/carnivore/index.html
Feds improve online privacy policies
Federal government Web sites have made "considerable
progress" in the past year when it comes to privacy issues,
but they still have a long way to go, according to a report
released Wednesday by the General Accounting Office. The
study found that 69 of 70 sites monitored had some sort of
privacy policy. Still, 24 failed to follow all federal
guidelines for informing people about how their information
is used. And some sites collect confidential data, such as
Social Security and credit card numbers.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2624995,00.html
FDA To Fork Over Docs On Web Site Security
In a last-minute response to a House Commerce Committee
subpoena, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said today
it would turn over more than 3,000 documents relating to
online security. In a meeting with committee staff today,
FDA officials reversed earlier refusals and pledged to
deliver the documents on Friday. The information was
supposed to arrive on Capitol Hill on Aug. 7. Earlier
this week, Commerce Chairman Thomas Bliley, R-Va.,
subpoenaed the documents after FDA officials repeatedly
declined to participate in Bliley's ongoing campaign to
expose security weaknesses at US government Web sites.
"It's really unfortunate that we had this back and forth,
because the public is left to assume the very worst about
their system," said Committee Spokesman Pete Sheffield.
"It makes you wonder what they're hiding that they weren't
eager to turn this over."
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/154893.html
AmEx unveils "disposable" credit card numbers
American Express today announced a new suite of online security
and privacy products, the first of which is a "disposable" credit
card number for its members. As previously reported by CNET News.com,
cardholders using the disposable credit card option will be able to
log on to a secure Web site and receive a one-time-use credit card
number to make purchases over the Internet. The free service will
be offered to small businesses and consumer cardholders within the
next 30 days. The company also announced a program called "Private
Browsing" in partnership with Privada, a California-based privacy
services company. The service, to be launched in November, will
allow customers to "set the meter" on how much information is
collected about them while browsing the Web or allow them to surf
incognito.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-2718520.html
Real Hackers Speak, Reveal Easy-to-Target Companies
A hacker can tell at just a single glance whether or not
a company's computer network will be easy to break into --
that's the conclusion to be drawn from a face-to-face
interview in which Nikkei Communications magazine brought
together two real hackers familiar with the darker side
of the Internet business. During the interview, which
focused on the theme of easy-to-target Web sites, the
hackers reveal some of the motives and methods of the
hacker community.
http://www.nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com/wcs/leaf?CID=onair/asabt/fw/111147
Government invests in security
NETWORK ASSOCIATES INC. announced on Tuesday that it is
receiving $11 million in contract funds to develop new
technologies for information system security. The grant
will be used by Santa Clara, Calif.-based Network Associates'
NAI Labs to develop IA (information assurance) and intrusion
survivability technologies during the next two years for
military, government, and commercial use to deal with security
breaches and outbreaks, according to a statement released by
the company.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/09/05/000905hndarpa.xml
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