Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1168-988409976-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Fri, 27 Apr 2001 15:20:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 15792 invoked by uid 510); 27 Apr 2001 21:20:49 -0000 Received: from hi.egroups.com (208.50.99.211) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 27 Apr 2001 21:20:49 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1168-988409976-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.55] by hi.egroups.com with NNFMP; 27 Apr 2001 22:19:36 -0000 X-Sender: fc@all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 27 Apr 2001 22:19:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 24121 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2001 22:19:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 27 Apr 2001 22:19:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta1 with SMTP; 27 Apr 2001 22:19:34 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id PAA05293 for iwar@onelist.com; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 15:19:33 -0700 Message-Id: <200104272219.PAA05293@all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 15:19:33 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] news Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Michelle Delio France Presse Agence France Presse April 21, 2001, Saturday As tensions rise between China and the United States, computer-savvy= citizens of both countries have begun to wage their own war on the= Internet. American hackers are urging each other to break into websites hosted in= China, and claim that US hackers have already penetrated hundreds of= Chinese websites. Chinese hackers are vowing to retaliate with a week-long attack on US-based= websites and computer networks, starting May 1. Security experts warn that these attacks could affect government systems,= and that outside of government all website owners and network= administrators should ensure their networks are well-protected. "These guys don't care who you are, they are just interested in how many= sites they can hit. Basically they are just out there collecting scalps "= said "Taltos," a security consultant and hacker from Budapest, Hungary who= has been closely following the underground online discussions on the= Chinese-US hack attacks. Messages posted on some of the underground Internet chat rooms indicate= that US hackers plan to continue the blitz they have dubbed the= "ChinaKiller." And on the Chinese side, "Many people here are frustrated with America. We= want to tell you what we think is wrong, but our government is too polite.= So we will say it on everyone's Internet," wrote Jia En Zhu, a 22-year-old= hacker who lives in Zhongguancun, a Beijing suburb, in one of the many= messages posted on the net. The Chinese hack attack is planned for May 1 through May 7th, peaking on= May 4, a Chinese holiday commemorating the country's first major student= demonstration, which took place in Beijing's Tiananmen Square 82 years= ago, on May 4, 1919, Zhu said. China's people have only had access to the Internet since 1997, but the= country's hackers have been quick to use it to make political points. The Internet has been a channel for attacks, apparently by Chinese hackers,= on US government sites in response to the May 1999 bombing of the Chinese= embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and for releasing viruses which destroyed= data on Taiwanese university servers. Taltos said that he wouldn't be surprised to see some new and nasty= computer viruses making the rounds of the Internet during the first week= of May. "If this cyberwar goes forward as planned, many Internet users will be= caught in the crossfire. So it's especially important to practice safe= computing during the first week of May." ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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