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Hackers Take Over Czech Centers
Hackers on Saturday broke into the server
(Czech.cz) of the network of Czech Centers,
which represent the CR abroad. They replaced
the opening page with a message telling Czechs
that they were now "under a new leader." It
took IT staff at the Foreign Ministry, which
is responsible for the centers, until Sunday
afternoon to get rid of the message. On the
web site's front page, the address www.czech.cz,
which is to present the Czech Republic abroad,
there is now black space with a photo of two
black boys and a text, signed by "Hackweiser"
hackers' group, which announces to Czechs that
they have a new government.
http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?id=3D010318000698&query=czech
German armed forces ban MS software, citing NSA snooping
The German foreign office and Bundeswehr are
pulling the plugs on Microsoft software, citing
security concerns, according to the German news
magazine Der Spiegel. Spiegel claims that German
security authorities suspect that the US National
Security Agency (NSA) has 'back door' access to
Microsoft source code, and can therefore easily
read the Federal Republic's deepest secrets.
The Bundeswehr will no longer use American
software on computers used in sensitive areas.
The German foreign office has meanwhile put plans
forvideoconferencing with its overseas embassies
on hold, for similar reasons. Under secretary of
state Gunter Pleuger is said by Spiegel to have
discovered that "for technical reasons" the
satellite service that was to be used was routed
via Denver, Colorado.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17679.html
Germany Denies Microsoft Ban
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,42502,00.html
Hong Kong ISPs slam encryption demands
ISPs have warned Hong Kong officials that their
plans to crack cybercrime will harm the country's
reputation. The Hong Kong Internet Service
Providers Association (HKISPA) has voiced
concerns about proposals to give law enforcers
access to encryption keys. "We have to be very
careful of controlling or even taking away the
right of using encryption," the organisation
told the South China Morning Post. "This will
seriously damage the reputation of a democracy
government, which Hong Kong is trying hard to
achieve." It is also worried about a proposal
to force ISPs to store records of their users,
including email account details and Web pages
accessed, for up to six months.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/17704.html.
Digitized force to face cyberwar
The Army will allow an opposing force to conduct
cyberwarfare against the first digitized division
when it demonstrates the combat capabilities of
the information technology-dependent force in
April. The Army came under fire from critics within
its own ranks, in Congress and elsewhere when it
started experimenting with digitized armored forces
from the 4th Infantry Division during an Advanced
Warfighting Experiment at Fort Irwin, Calif., in
1997 Service leaders said at the time that much
of the equipment was prototypical, and the field
exercise was an experiment that already had too
many variables. Allowing the opposing force to
use network attack tools likely would have been
too much for the digitized corps=92 fledgling network.
The message at the time was that the service would
put the digitized division=92s network security to
the test at a later date.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0312/web-army-03-16-01.asp
Malaysian opposition Web sites no longer accessible
Over a dozen Malaysian opposition Internet
sites hosted in the United States are no
longer accessible and a senior opposition
official said on Monday they might have been
blocked. The sites, mostly Malay language
ones supporting jailed former finance minister
Anwar Ibrahim, were removed on Saturday and
replaced with a notice stating: ``Sorry, but
the page or file you're looking for is not
here.'' ``We are not sure whether the Web
sites were pulled as a result of a technical
error, or whether this was a deliberate
measure,'' said Lokman Noor, secretary of the
opposition Parti Keadilan Nasional's youth wing.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/978163l.htm
Web cache hardware launches DoS attacks, site claims
California computer equipment reseller Altima
Solutions believes that Web caching equipment
by Cacheflow often malfunctions so as to
inadvertently attack their site and bring it
down. The reported defect, curiously, affects
only e-commerce sites running Intershop sales
software, Altima says. The Cacheflow bug, one
imagines, somehow interacts with Intershop
and "requests page updates one to three times
a second, causing tens of thousands of requests
much like a DoS attack," Altima President
Tarek Ayoub told The Register. "Initially we
thought we were being attacked by hackers,"
Ayoub says. "We were surprised to learn that
it originated from [innocent] sources
that have one thing in common, the Cacheflow
equipment."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/17673.html
Brave new world
It was simpler during the Cold War when the National
Security Agency had one major target -- the Soviet
Union. Now there are many new targets and problems.
The NSA is the U.S. cryptology agency in charge of
listening to the communications of other countries
and enemies to produce intelligence information. It
also helps create code and communications systems
for the U.S. government that can resist
eavesdropping by other countries. It is said to be
the largest employer of mathematicians in the United
States and perhaps the world. The NSA is the nation's
largest intelligence agency, and even its budget and
the number of employees are classified. But the end
of the Cold War and the rise of the information age
are making the NSA's job harder. Technological tools
once available to agencies like the NSA are now
available to everyone -- other nations and
terrorists alike.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/nsa/stories/codebreakers/index.html
NMCI security software selected
Three software vendors=92 products will defend Navy
Department networks under recently signed Navy
Marine Corps Intranet subcontracts. Symantec Corp.
will supply 10 products for NMCI, including
NetProwler, Norton AntiVirus, Raptor Firewall and
Mail Gear, said Tim Bashara, NMCI program director
for Raytheon Co.=92s Secure Networks, St. Petersburg,
Fla. NMCI also will feature Alcatel virtual private
network gateways and Cisco Systems Inc.=92s Secure
Intrusion Detection, as well as security intrusion
and detection services software, Bashara said.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0319/web-nmci-03-19-01.asp
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