Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1189-988917778-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); Thu, 03 May 2001 12:24:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 9641 invoked by uid 510); 3 May 2001 18:24:08 -0000 Received: from hp.egroups.com (208.50.99.201) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 3 May 2001 18:24:08 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1189-988917778-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.55] by hp.egroups.com with NNFMP; 03 May 2001 19:22:59 -0000 X-Sender: fc@all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 3 May 2001 19:22:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 18212 invoked from network); 3 May 2001 19:22:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 3 May 2001 19:22:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta1 with SMTP; 3 May 2001 19:22:25 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id XAA00974 for iwar@onelist.com; Wed, 2 May 2001 23:25:17 -0700 Message-Id: <200105030625.XAA00974@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: Wed, 2 May 2001 23:25:17 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] News Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit May 1, 2001 Chinese hackers declare 'May Day War' Tensions between Washington and Beijing spread to the Internet after Chinese ``hackers'' warned of a blitz starting Tuesday of U.S. Web sites in an anti-American protest and in response to reported attacks on Chinese Web sites. Chinese hackers, who illegally enter computer networks, said on Monday their American counterparts had launched attacks on Web sites in China and vowed to strike back in a blitz dubbed the "May Day War." But top U.S. security experts on Monday played down the significance of growing vandalism against U.S. Web sites by hackers expressing pro-Chinese and anti-U.S. sentiments. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2714179,00.html Chinese Hackers Launch Web-Site Attacks - Update Web sites for the U.S. House of Representatives and the Philadelphia Mayor's Office are among the latest victims of a US-Chinese hacker war that promises to play itself out online this week. Several Chinese hacker groups earlier this morning launched a highly coordinated volley of attacks on US government and commercial Web sites, security experts reported. The much-anticipated campaign was in apparent retaliation for nearly 100 separate US hacker attacks on Chinese state run sites following the collision of a US spy plane and a Chinese jet last month. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/165120.html Transportation site knocked offline by hackers Hackers have knocked a Transportation Department Web site offline, a spokesman said Tuesday, leaving the department unable to post railroad decisions or use e-mail. The Surface Transportation Board's Web site was hacked on Monday, spokesman Dennis Watson said, and federal investigators have been notified. Watson said technicians do not know when the site will be back online.``The board is spending time right now getting the system up,'' Watson said. ``Their connection to the outside world is not functioning right now.'' http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/009501.htm White House website hit by e-mail 'bombs' The White House website was hit with e-mail. "bombs," while dozens of U.S. and Chinese sites were defaced, security experts said. Chinese hackers have started a week-long campaign of attacks targeting U.S. government and commercial internet sites, in retaliation for what they see as assaults by pro-U.S. hackers, they noted. Chinese hackers hit 18 U.S. websites while pro-U.S. hackers had hit 23 sites in China. The Chinese campaign dubbed "The Sixth Network War of National Defense," officially began at 1200 GMT as China began its May Day celebrations, according to experts who monitor hacker activity. http://63.108.181.201/2001/05/01/AEF/0015-1754-NEW.USA.CHI.CMP.INT..htm Defacements rise in China hacker war Online vandals made good on their threats to disrupt U.S.-based Web sites Monday by defacing dozens of sites. By late Monday, the hacking group Honkers Union of China increased the number of Web sites defaced since early April to more than 80, while online vandals posting pro-American graffiti had tagged at least 100, according to several sources. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5773288.html May Day hacking threat fails to materialise Contrary to some security consultant warnings, anti-capitalist computer hacking does not accompany May Day demonstrations. Police and computer security experts report that fears that the city of London would fall to anti- capitalist computer hackers have so far proved unfounded. http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2001/17/ns-22570.html Experts Yawn Over US-China Hacker War Reports of a feverish exchange of attacks between Chinese and US hackers have been largely overblown, security experts said today. Several commercial security groups Monday warned that a ring of Chinese hacker groups had launched a highly coordinated volley of attacks on US government and commercial Web sites. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/165172.html U.S., Chinese hackers break into one another's sites, trade insults http://www.msnbc.com/news/566921.asp Commentary: Not quite the apocalypse http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-5785265-0.html Is This World Cyber War I? Chinese hackers said Tuesday they have begun to hit American computer networks with denial- of-service attacks, and also claim to have placed mass-attack tools into four large American computer networks. A new alert from the FBI-led National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) confirms that hackers have been particularly active over the past two days. The distributed-denial-of-service attacks on the Department of the Interior's National Business Center, the U.S. Geological Survey's site and Pacific Bell Internet Services are among the largest so far. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,43443,00.html 'Indianz' Web Site Hacked Visitors to Albuquerque's Gathering of Nations might have gotten a surprise Sunday if they logged on to indianz.com to catch up on news relevant to Native Americans. The site joined some federal government Web sites this weekend in being hit by apparent Chinese hackers. The substitute front page put up on indianz.com was headlined "KillUsa Union" and called for beating down American and Japanese imperialism. It also threatened: "China will kill all the American! China will kill all the Japanese!" http://www.abqjournal.com/news/320605news05-01-01.htm Army moving to restrict Web access to porn The Army is installing Internet software at more than 100 military posts worldwide to prevent the viewing of pornography and other inappropriate material. The Army said it wants to prohibit some 200,000 Army personnel from accessing porn, gambling and other sites prohibited on government computers. The purchase also comes as the Army is struggling with the problem of sexual harassment in its ranks. Asked if the Army has a problem with soldiers viewing Internet porn, Karen Baker, a Pentagon-based Army spokeswoman, replied, "Probably no more than society at large." http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/04/30/army.cyberporn.ap/index.html Privacy advocates seek 'Carnivore' rollback As police around the world search for ways to monitor criminal activity on the Internet without trampling privacy rights, the powerful tool adopted in the United States faces persistent scrutiny and opposition. At issue is the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Carnivore software, so- called for its vaunted ability to cut to the ''meat'' of court-ordered electronic communications intercepts. A broad range of U.S. privacy advocates has launched a new drive to de-fang Carnivore, which the FBI says skims online traffic and stores only the information the government is allowed to intercept under federal wiretap authority. http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/1152173l.htm Security at Any Cost Protection from hackers, crackers, and cybervandals comes at a price -- and companies are willing to pay. A number of US corporate and government sites fell victim to a series of hacks, allegedly retaliatory strikes by the Chinese, on Monday and over the weekend. The cyberattacks are expected to continue until May 7. But even before this latest round of highly publicized attacks, hacks against websites and infrastructure were a major concern among US corporations -- if spending is any indication. Spending on corporate network security remains strong even while corporations cut their IT budgets during the economic downturn, analysts say. In fact, the demand for security services is so strong a growing number of security companies have sprung up to capitalize on corporate America's fears. http://www.techtv.com/money/businessnews/story/0,23008,3325163,00.html Inadequate security down to human error Almost all security breaches are due to human error, with mismanagement and inadequate choices of technology often allowing hackers to walk in through the front door. A study carried out by the Computer Security Institute (CSI) found that hackers are able to take advantage of simple, common vulnerabilities caused by poor management. According to the report, 93 per cent of security breaches can be attributed to errors in configuring systems. http://thebusiness.vnunet.com/News/1121309 ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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