[iwar] [NewsBits] NewsBits - 02/21/01 (fwd)


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Hackers run up million-dollar phone bills in Europe
Computer hackers have penetrated the phone
systems of major firms all over Europe and
run up 67 million dollars in phone bills, an
Austrian trade magazine reported on Wednesday.
The culprits broke into the systems of more
than 100 large firms in Austria alone in early
February, according to the specialist magazine
Computerwelt. Almost all the firms had the
Kapsch phone system. The report said the firms
in question received phone bill ten or 20 times
higher than usual.
http://www.antionline.org/2001/02/21/eca/0169-0524-Austria-Crime..html

Business People Are Most Prolific Hackers, Expert Says
Mary Pat McCarthy had this vision of computer
hackers. She saw them as teen-agers with "green
hair and pierced body parts" sitting around trying
to find ways to raise havoc with the electronic
commerce of the world. Wrong, she learned. "Some
of the most prolific hackers are business people
who do it for economic gain or sometimes political
gain," said McCarthy, vice chairwoman of the
information, communications and entertainment
business of KPMG, an accounting and consulting
firm. She is based in Mountain View, Calif.
"It is not just teen-agers trying to hack some
of the most influential sites in the world."
http://www.omaha.com/index.atp?u_div=3&u_hdg=2&u_sid=70731

Cell phones, Internet, computers: Gateways for hackers
Moviegoers may remember some of the box office
hits in recent years that focus on the
vulnerabilities of various information age
systems. Remember the teenagers hacking into
classified systems in the movie "War Games"
or agencies invading the privacy of citizens
and erasing their existence in the movie "The
Net" or the evil corporate head who developed
programming language to globally control all
electronic information systems simultaneously
in "Anti-Trust?" Although fictional, these
movies aren't that far-fetched and depict a
key feature of information warfare, manipulating
information and communications systems to gain
an advantage over others.
http://www.af.mil/news/Feb2001/n20010220_0247.shtml

Hacking small to make it big
The hacker practice of siphoning off small
amounts of money from a large number of
credit-card holders is not new, but is easily
detected and can be prevented, said MasterCard
International Asia Pacific officials. According
to recent reports, an international ring of
hackers -- believed to be operating out of
Eastern Europe and Panama -- has managed to
steal credit card information, and is using
it to steal small amounts of money from a large
group of people.
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/dailynews/story/0,2000010021,20183201-1,00.htm

Survey: Suspicious server probes multiply
The number of suspicious probes and scans
designed to find vulnerable domain name
servers on corporate networks shot up 280
percent last month and continues to climb,
according to IT managers and a new survey
conducted by a network security monitoring
firm. A survey released last week by Alameda,
Calif.-based Pilot Network Services Inc.
found that suspected hackers made as many
as 6,000 attempts last month -- compared to
approximately 2,200 in December -- to locate
vulnerable domain name servers across
corporate networks. Pilot collected the
information for the survey from its regional
network operations centers, which monitor
70,000 corporate networks belonging to Pilot
clients worldwide.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/02/21/suspicious.probes.idg/index.html

Cyberdefense students using PKI
Students and alumni of the Defense Department's
school to train investigators in computer crime
techniques are using public-key infrastructure
technology to communicate via a private Web site.
The Defense Computer Investigations Training
Program in Linthicum, Md., started handing out
digital certificates to its students two weeks
ago, said Greg Redfern, the program's executive
director.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0219/web-pki-02-21-01.asp

U.N. agency pushes for new Net domain rules
The world's intellectual property watchdog is
pushing for a global agreement on country codes
on the Internet to help counter ``cyber-squatting,''
the unauthorized use of Net addresses, a top
official said Wednesday. Francis Gurry, the World
Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) assistant
director-general, told a news conference that the
effort was aimed at preventing people using different
country codes, or ccTLDs, to corner sites, often of
prominent figures or businesses.
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/030551.htm

Security is top concern of CIOs
The main issue on the minds of federal chief
information officers in 2000 was information
assurance and security, according to a new
survey from the Information Technology
Association of America. The association
released its 11th annual survey of federal
CIOs Tuesday. The survey includes interviews
with 37 executives. Agencies now see security
as a management issue, said Paul Wohlleben,
chair of the CIO survey task group. CIOs
believe the government will have to form
partnerships with private industry to address
security needs as the government's aging
workforce retires, the survey said.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0201/022101h1.htm

MS protects Mac but not Windows users with web bug mail firewall
Not all Microsoft mail clients are created equal.
Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury has unearthed
an intriguing difference between the protection
afforded to users of Microsoft mail clients
running on Windows or the Macintosh. Mac users
running Entourage, the mail client-cum-PIM that
debuted with Office 2001, have the option of
turning off HTML mail, writes Dan. But that's
an option not available to Outlook Express users
on Windows.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/17080.html

PGP creator Zimmerman leaves Network Associates
Encryption guru Phil Zimmerman has left Network
Associates citing differences with the security
giant about publishing the full source code for
the latest version of the widely used encryption
program, PGP. Zimmerman, the creator of PGP
(Pretty Good Privacy), is leaving Network
Associates (NAI) after three years as a
senior fellow to work with security firm Hush
Communications in developing encryption products
based on the OpenPGP standard. He is also
launching the OpenPGP Consortium to further
interoperability of different vendors'
implementations of the standard, embodied
in IETF RFC 2440.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/17064.html

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