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February 28, 2001
Activists target bank's Web site in animal rights protest
Hacktivists have targeted the Web site of a US
investment bank which saved a controversial drug
testing company from liquidation with an attack
designed to make its site unavailable. The Web
site of investment bank Stephens, which provides
finance for Huntingdon Life Sciences, was
yesterday subject to an attempted "virtual
sit-in" by cyberactivists using a hacking tool
called Floodnet.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/17243.html
Long-awaited security report released
The Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office this
week released President Clinton's report to Congress
on the status of federal efforts to secure the
information systems that support the nation's
critical infrastructure. The 209-page report,
mandated under the fiscal 2001 Defense Authorization
Act, details all of the work coordinated through the
CIAO and the National Security Council over the past
three years on critical infrastructure protection (CIP).
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0226/web-cip-02-28-01.asp
http://www.ciao.gov/CIAO_Document_Library/CIP_2001_CongRept.pdf
WolfPack project moving forward
Proposals are due in mid-March for the Defense
Department's $40 million WolfPack program, an
effort to develop advanced electronic warfare
capabilities. The Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency recently released two
solicitations for the WolfPack program, which
is aimed at "developing technologies that will
enable radio frequency spectrum dominance against
advanced communications and radar systems in the
tactical battlespace," according to a Feb. 26
DARPA announcement.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0226/web-elec-02-28-01.asp
Bush Proposes Funds For E-Government, Computer Security
Trillion-dollar tax cut notwithstanding, President
Bush recommends hiking federal spending for
e-government and computer security initiatives in
his proposed budget, released by the White House
earlier today. In addition to maintaining support
for Firstgov.gov, the federal government's recently
launched information portal, Bush proposes that
Congress aside $10 million in 2002 to fund an
interagency e-government initiative to be overseen
by the General Services Administration (GSA).
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/162551.html
Port of Helsinki loses domain name decision
WIPO goes against earlier rulings on geographic
domain names, saying trademarks do not
necessarily apply The port authority of the
City of Helsinki has failed in its bid to win
the domain name portofhelsinki.com from a
shipping business, based on the argument that
the domain refers to a geographic location
rather than a specific entity. The decision,
reached this week by the World Intellectual
Property Organisation's (WIPO) Arbitration and
Mediation Centre, goes against the grain of some
of WIPO's earlier precedents, such as awarding
Barcelona.com to the City of Barcelona.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2001/8/ns-21254.html
Active Directory fix to require significant upgrade
A KEY SECURITY flaw in Microsoft's Active
Directory pointed out more than 12 months ago
by early adopters won't be patched for nearly
another year. What's more, enterprise users will
have to upgrade all their directory servers, known
as domain controllers, to the forthcoming "Whistler"
version of Windows 2000 to activate the patch.
Observers say the security flaw, which can cause
changes to user groups to be dropped before being
recorded, tops the list of issues that need to be
addressed in Active Directory.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/02/27/010227hnactivedir.xml
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