[iwar] [NewsBits] NewsBits - 08/17/01 (fwd)

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Internet service banned in Vietnamese province as security threat
Although Internet service is booming elsewhere in Vietnam, it was banned
in a central province by local security officials who said it could
threaten national security, official media reported Friday.  The Phu Yen
provincial post office offered public Internet service in the provincial
capital in late 1998 and it flourished for six months, the Lao Dong
(Labor) trade union newspaper reported. 
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/078148.htm

Pentagon Hides Behind Onion Wraps Onions may be the secret ingredient in
protecting the Pentagon's classified information.  During an afternoon
presentation at the Usenix Security conference on Thursday, a researcher
at the U.S.  Naval Research Laboratory described a technology known as
"Onion Routing," which preserves anonymity by wrapping the identity of
users in onion-like layers.  "Public networks are vulnerable to traffic
analysis.  Packet headers identify recipients, and packet routes can be
tracked," said Paul Syverson, who works at the NRL's Center for High
Assurance Computer Systems.  "Even encrypted data exposes the identity
of the communicating parties."
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46126,00.html

Schools help government develop `soldiers' to fight cyberterrorism The
first group of cyberterrorism students reporting for ``duty'' this week
at the University of Tulsa pulls together an eclectic mix of computer
talent.  The 14 students were hand-picked as part of the University of
Tulsa's $5 million federally funded program to conduct cyberterrorism
research and to help develop ``soldiers'' for a national ``cybercorps. 
''The university was designated as a Center for Information Security by
the National Security Agency. 
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/046731.htm

MS withdraws claim about XP's protection against viruses, hackers.  A
promotional Web site for Microsoft's soon-to- be-released Windows XP
operating system said it would offer the same protection from viruses
and hackers that major corporations use.  Not so, said a Microsoft
executive who had the reference removed from the Web site after The
Associated Press questioned it.  ``I'm sure that was an unintentional
over exuberance there,'' said Mark Croft, manager for the new Windows
product due in stores in October. 
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/071744.htm

We won't tell you what this patch does, but apply it NOW There's an
extremely serious security problem with GroupWise that requires an
immediate patch, but the problem is apparently so bad that Novell can't
even bring itself to tell its users what it is.  The Utah-based software
firm has issued an email to its GroupWise 5.5 Enhancement Pack or
GroupWise 6 users asking them that to apply the "Padlock Fix" to their
servers immediately but isn't telling anybody why it's needed, lest
hackers exploit the problem on unpatched systems. 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/21115.html

Broward Officials Want Students to Try Hacking Mock Election Broward
County officials considering the $20 million purchase of a touchscreen
voting system want students to try to tamper with the computers during a
mock election.  "One of the biggest concerns raised is whether there is
the potential for computer abuse, and we really need to see how
foolproof or tamperproof this equipment is," county commission Chairman
John Rodstrom said.  "If there is a problem, it will happen now or
later.  And some of these kids are pretty smart."
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/florida/MGAJ6W8YGQC.html

Florida Voting Systems Won't Be Kid-Tested
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/169164.html

Yahoo! guilty! of! kidnapping! rape! torture! Yahoo! is to blame for
incidences of kidnapping, rape and torture reckons some god-awful,
blinkered and self-satisfied member of the American Family Association. 
Patrick Trueman has taken the recent example of a 15 year-old girl from
Massachusetts who was kidnapped and then subjected to days of abuse to
embark on a fire and brimstone crusade.  The case itself is pretty
shocking: the girl, who had run away from home, was abducted by a bloke
and a woman and raped.  She was then "lent" to another person who raped
her, beat her and tied her up in a closet. 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21100.html

D.C.  Wants to Catalog Its Kids Big Brother met little brother this week
in the nation's capital when Washingtonians learned of a plan to keep
digital fingerprint and photograph files of the city's schoolchildren. 
Officials in the District, where police are caught up in the
unsuccessful hunt for missing intern Chandra Levy, claimed that the
massive central database of children from 2 to 14 years old would help
locate kidnapped or runaway tots. 
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46135,00.html

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