Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1386-994083089-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); Mon, 02 Jul 2001 07:12:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 1463 invoked by uid 510); 2 Jul 2001 13:13:36 -0000 Received: from ho.egroups.com (64.211.240.236) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 2 Jul 2001 13:13:36 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1386-994083089-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.52] by ho.egroups.com with NNFMP; 02 Jul 2001 14:11:30 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 2 Jul 2001 14:11:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 44664 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2001 14:10:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 2 Jul 2001 14:10:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta2 with SMTP; 2 Jul 2001 14:10:36 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id HAA08028 for iwar@onelist.com; Mon, 2 Jul 2001 07:10:35 -0700 Message-Id: <200107021410.HAA08028@big.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: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 07:10:35 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] news Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 ... ========================================================================== 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." ... http://www.newsbytes.com ========================================================================== ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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