Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1454-995897564-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, 23 Jul 2001 07:14:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 8662 invoked by uid 510); 23 Jul 2001 13:15:25 -0000 Received: from n33.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.83) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 23 Jul 2001 13:15:25 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1454-995897564-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.53] by ei.egroups.com with NNFMP; 23 Jul 2001 14:12:46 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 23 Jul 2001 14:12:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 76361 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2001 12:35:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 23 Jul 2001 12:35:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta3 with SMTP; 23 Jul 2001 12:35:34 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id FAA31052 for iwar@onelist.com; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 05:35:30 -0700 Message-Id: <200107231235.FAA31052@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, 23 Jul 2001 05:35:30 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [NewsBits] NewsBits - 07/16/01 (fwd) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit July 16, 2001 Israeli m0sad hackers crack 480 sites Fears that other hackers would follow last week's super-attack on 700 websites were confirmed on Saturday when a second hacker turned over a large number of sites. A pro- Israeli defacing group, m0sad, hit 480 websites in a political hack that probably took less than a minute. The attack follows another last week where more than 700 "virtually hosted" websites were hit in a single attack. Some security experts feared that this would be just the beginning of a spate of copycat attacks. http://www.vnunet.com/News/1124000 Russian Mafia threatens Net Organized crime rings in Russia and the rest of the former Soviet Union are increasingly hacking into U.S. e-commerce and banking Web sites, posing an enormous economic threat. Hackers have launched computer viruses and disruptive denial-of-service attacks, but the biggest danger comes from hackers with ties to organized crime breaking into computers, FBI officials said. Spearheading the organized hacking rings is the Russian Mafia, security experts say. The Russian Mafia has infiltrated many businesses in the former Soviet Union, and is becoming increasingly sophisticated in computer crimes. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2784950,00.html IG tells State to step up security efforts The State Department needs to evaluate its foreign operations and draw up critical systems infrastructure protection plans and vulnerability assessments, State's inspector general concluded in a report released last month. Under Presidential Decision Directive 63, State had to implement an international strategy for safeguarding critical U.S. and global infrastructures. The effort so far has consisted of an international outreach plan to catch cyberterrorists and criminals, which began last August. But the IG report said that although the plan has had some success, the department needs to take more global preventive measures. http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/4643-1.html Consumer watchdog accuses major search engines of deception Attacking an increasingly popular Internet business practice, a consumer watchdog group Monday filed a Federal Trade Commission complaint alleging that many online search engines are concealing the impact that special fees have on their results. Commercial Alert, a 3-year-old group founded by consumer activist Ralph Nader, asked the FTC to investigate whether eight of the Web's largest search engines are violating federal laws against deceptive advertising. http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/048442.htm Court affirms download patent A federal appeals court has for the second time breathed life into a patent that could force software vendors to pay licensing fees to sell their products directly over the Internet. A full panel of judges on the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday ordered a lower court that effectively had thrown out the patent to reconsider its scope more broadly. The decision is a setback for software makers including Intuit and AOL Time Warner's CompuServe unit, which have been battling a small Secaucus, N.J.-based company known as E-Data for years over the patent, which dates back to 1985. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5094213,00.html ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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