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Attack slows auction service site
Andale came under a denial-of-service attack on
Wednesday, the fourth such attack on the online
auction service company in two weeks, company
executives said. The attack made Andale's site
nearly inaccessible for auction sellers who use
the company's services to manage their auctions
and communicate with customers. The attack also
turned off the company's popular auction
counters and prevented the site from sending
out end-of-auction notices to buyers and sellers.
Mountain View, Calif.-based Andale declined to
publicly acknowledge the previous attacks in part
because it was worried about "copycat" attacks,
company chief executive Munjal Shah said.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/newsbursts/0,7407,2699761,00.html
Hackers deface AP and Parkinson's Foundation sites
A computer hacking group claimed responsibility
for defacing the Web sites of the Parkinson's
Disease Foundation and the Associated Press
early on Wednesday, shutting down the AP site
for more than an hour. A hacker broke into the
AP site at 2:19 a.m. and scrawled the word
``HFURY'' across the Web page, said Jack Stokes,
AP spokesman. Sometime later a Wall Street
Journal online reporter noticed the word and
contacted the AP, which took the site down at
about 4:30 a.m. The site was cleaned and
restored to operations at about 6:10 a.m., he
said. ``None of the editorial operations were
affected,'' Stokes said. The 1,700 members of
the newspaper collective receive their
information via a private network.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/988941l.htm
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/163427.html
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2699350,00.html
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2001/11/ns-21734.html
PoizonBOx hackers leave e-envoy red-faced
The government has launched an investigation
after a chain of UK government Web sites
including one belonging to the office of
the e-envoy were hacked and defaced on
Tuesday by a group of computer crackers.
The sites, including the e-envoy's site for
intergovernmental policy, www.govtalk.gov.uk,
Scottish archive site www.nas.gov.uk, and
local government sites www.wiltshire.gov.uk
and www.havant.gov.uk, were defaced late on
Tuesday and early Wednesday morning. A group
of cybervandals calling themselves PoizonBOx
replaced government information with graffiti
showing a self-styled logo.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2001/11/ns-21725.html
Flaw reported in popular e-mail encryption program
Two cryptologists announced Tuesday that they
had found a flaw in the most widely used program
for sending encrypted, or coded, e-mail messages.
If confirmed, the flaw would allow a determined
adversary to obtain secret codes used by senders
of encrypted e-mail. The program, called PGP for
Pretty Good Privacy, is used by human rights
organizations to protect vulnerable sources, by
corporations to ensure secure communications and
by millions of individual users. American security
experts cautioned that they could not fully judge
the accuracy of the claim, which was issued in
Prague, before more technical details became
available. The experts also noted that some sort
of access to the sender's computer -- either
directly or via the Internet -- would be needed
to exploit any such flaw.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/063453.htm
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5208418.html
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,42553,00.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/17064.html
(NY Times article, free registration required)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/21/technology/21CODE.html
Kournikova virus kit author quits
The author of the generation kit that was
responsible for spawning the Kournikova
virus has thrown in the towel in fear of
his freedom, and has pulled the file from
his website. A message went up on [K]alamar's
website at the end of last week, in which
the coder expressed his fears that the
authorities were going to come down hard
on him. As a result he's decided to stop
development on the kit - called Vbswg - and
remove it from his site. Quoting the author
word for word, the message reads: "I've
decided to stop the develop of Vbswg, because
I've heard that some people wanna put me in
jail, and i don't wanna goto jail, so, i'lls
top the program and delete the linsk to it
until i know i'm safe. Maybe i'll release
the code. Sorry."
http://thebusiness.vnunet.com/News/1119441
Congressional subcommittee approves anti-spam bill
A U.S. congressional subcommittee unanimously
approved a bill Wednesday that would require
senders of Internet junk mail to honor consumer
requests to be left off their mailing lists.
The bill seeks to place limits on ``spam,'' or
unsolicited commercial e-mail messages that are
often sent out by the millions. Internet users
and access providers complain that spam clogs
networks and inboxes with unwanted offers for
everything from credit cards to pornography to
pyramid schemes.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/038326.htm
http://www.msnbc.com/news/547800.asp
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5206615.html
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