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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1416000/1416543.stm

Sunday, 1 July, 2001, 12:37 GMT 13:37 UK

Cyberwar the coming threat

Computers rather than missiles could pose the biggest security threat of the
future with nations able to cripple rivals by using cyberwarfare, a top
official has warned.

Admiral Chris Barrie, chief of the Australian Defence Forces, told a weekend
conference in Sydney that more than 30 countries have advanced and
aggressive programmes for waging war by computer.

"Cyberattacks will provide...adversaries with new options..." -- Admiral
Chris Barrie

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July 4 Virus Hoax Threatens MP3 Files  

By Brian McWilliams, Newsbytes
SOUTH MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA,
28 Jun 2001, 10:47 PM CST

Preying on the guilt - and gullibility - of digital music swappers, an
electronic message circulated the Internet today warning of a ticking
time bomb planted on the PCs of Napster users.  The press release, which
was distributed by e-mail and posted in three Usenet discussion groups
devoted to music, announced that on July 4th, American Independence Day,
computers around the planet will crash and all MP3 music files on them
will be obliterated. 

According to the message, a "new hybrid computer code" named MusicPanel
has been surreptitiously buried, Trojan-horse style, inside MP3 files of
500 popular tunes and distributed over the past eight months among
unsuspecting "song thieves" using the popular Napster and Gnutella
file-exchange services. 

The program, which according to the press release evades detection by
anti-virus software, is a "global weapon" that will detonate on the
computers of music fans next Wednesday and "erase all music files from
their computers and any file sharing or MP3 applications."

Posted Wednesday from an account at Connect.com.au Pty.  Ltd., an
Internet service provider in Australia, the Usenet message claimed that
MusicPanel was developed by "a group of musician-programmers to redress
the grievances of recorded artists who find their music being swapped
and lifted from the Internet."
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http://www.newsbytes.com 

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