[iwar] [NewsBits] NewsBits - 07/30/01 (fwd)

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DoJ 'will prosecute Russian hacker'
Although software house Adobe has withdrawn its
support for the controversial prosecution of Russian
programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, it looks like the US
Department of Justice (DoJ) is set to go ahead with
the case. After overwhelming protest from the internet
community last week, Adobe decided to abandon its case
to prosecute Sklyarov for copyright infringement. But
after a meeting between the DoJ and the Electronic
Frontier Foundation (EFF) last Friday, the US
government appears unlikely to let go so easily,
suggesting the next few months will see a court case
that will test the mettle of the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (DMCA).
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1124305

Artists, scientists protest U.S. copyright arrest
Artists joined software programmers and free speech
advocates Monday in protesting the arrest of a Russian
man on charges of violating a controversial new
copyright law. About 100 people gathered under cloudy
skies carrying a large ''Free Dmitry'' banner, placards
proclaiming ``Reading is a Right, not a Feature,'' and
chanting slogans.  The group walked two blocks from a
civic plaza across from the public library and City Hall
to the federal building where the U.S. Attorney's office
is building its case against Dmitry Sklyarov.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/068944.htm

Hacking activity at all-time high
Hacking activity is at an all-time high, according to
stats compiled by The Honeynet Project. It bases this
conclusion on the number of attacks perpetrated against
a network of servers, set up by the organisation
specifically to collect data on hacking attempts. The
intrusion detection system placed on the Honeynet's
servers generated 157 alerts during May 2000 but this
figure had escalated by a factor of almost nine to 1,398
alerts by February 2001. The Honeynet's firewall showed
a doubling of alerts from 103 to 206 per month between
May 2000 and February 2001.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/20714.html

CSEAT will review agencies' security for free
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has
set up a computer security expert assist team, called
CSEAT, to improve agencies' infrastructure protection
and share best security practices. "It was kind of a
surprise" to get a budget line item for CSEAT, said
its director, Kathy Lyons-Burke. "We didn't expect
Congress to give us the money." The first review
started in June at the Federal Emergency Management
Agency. The process takes about three months. "We
don't give a grade, and we don't break in,"
Lyons-Burke said. "We will apply consistent control
objectives and criteria" across agencies and eventually
draw an overall comparative picture of federal security
policy.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/4768-1.html


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