[iwar] [NewsBits] NewsBits - 09/14/01 (fwd)

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September 14, 2001

IBM exec arrested for bomb threat An employee of IBM was arrested on
Wednesday night for a bomb-hoax in connection with a Singapore Airlines
flight, and will be charged in a Singapore court Friday, police said. 
The New Zealand man allegedly sent an e-mail on the morning after the
terrorist hijackings in the US, claiming there was a bomb on board
flight SQ 422 to Johannesburg, South Africa.  He as believed to be a
passenger on that flight.  It is not known to whom he had directed the
e-mail. 
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/newsbursts/0,7407,2812421,00.html
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7164665.html

China nabs first hacker for posting porn on sites Police have arrested a
computer student suspected of littering government-run Web sites with
pornography in China's first seizure of an Internet hacker, the official
Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.  Police in the central province
of Hubei detained 19-year-old Wang Qun last month on suspicion of
posting erotica on the homepage of a well-known science Web site, the
news agency said. 
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/1485962l.htm
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/newsbursts/0,7407,2812412,00.html

Kournikova Virus Writer Stands Trial Dutch court considers light
punishment for first- time offender.  Saying that people should be able
to use PCs and the Internet without interference, a Dutch public
prosecutor has asked the court here to sentence the 20-year-old maker of
the Anna Kournikova e-mail worm to 240 hours of civil service. 
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,61864,00.asp
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2095252,00.html
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7164744.html
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170111.html

Fluffi Bunni UK web hack hits thousands Thousands of UK websites had
their traffic redirected this morning by hacker Fluffi Bunni, with
surfers treated instead to a rant against both religion and US economic
imperialism.  On the redirected page, Fluffi Bunni asks "for Mr Bin
Laden and $5m in a brown paper bag" in exchange for repairing the hack. 
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1125449

'Fluffi Bunni' hacker declares Jihad
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/57/21668.html
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170106.html

British cyberpolice ask providers to retain all data after terrorist
attacks in the United States.  British authorities have asked all phone
companies and Internet service providers to preserve communications data
stored Tuesday in case they contain important clues to the identity of
the terrorists who attacked Washington and New York. 
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/029760.htm

Networks boost security against attacks An FBI warning has
administrators of the nation's corporate networks double-checking--and
double- locking--their systems in the wake of Tuesday's terrorist
attacks in New York and Washington.  But despite the federal Terrorist
Threat Advisory, which calls for IT professionals across the country to
"implement appropriate security measures--both physical and cyber,"
experts say corporate America is a long way from ready, or safe. 
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2812457,00.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/629137.asp

Hacker Group Urges Restraint Against Islamic Sites The Chaos Computer
Club (CCC), a well-known German hacker organization, has appealed to
hackers worldwide to refrain from trying to destroy Islamic Web sites
and Web-based communication systems.  After the deadly terrorist attacks
on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon on Washington,
D.C., the CCC issued a press release saying that e-mail is being "passed
around in the hacker's scene" urging that Islamic Web sites be brought
down.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170110.html

Crackers Prepare Retaliation For Terrorist Attack While the federal
government tracks down suspects for questioning in Tuesday's attack
against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, cracker groups and
individual crackers are plotting their own attack.  The group is calling
itself the Dispatchers, and, in a letter posted to the Web on Sept.  12,
the group said it has already disabled ISPs in Palestine and is
targeting ISPs in Afghanistan with the explicit goal of destroying them. 
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170117.html

Hackers divided over response to terrorism Groups of online vandals and
hackers are split over how to respond to this week's terrorist attacks
on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, with some Internet
vigilantes calling for an assault on perceived terrorist sites and
others pleading for calm. 
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7166935.html

FBI computer security center warns of increased hacking The FBI's
National Infrastructure Protection Center warned government agencies and
businesses Friday of a likely increase in computer hacking following
Tuesday's terrorist attacks.  NIPC issued its advisory, "Increased Cyber
Awareness," in part because of a virus already spreading that, the
organization said, appears "to be related to the World Trade Center."
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0901/091401j1.htm

Analyst says cyberattacks are next wave A wave of cyberattacks against
government and business systems is likely once the military response
begins against Tuesday's terrorist attacks, a former National Security
Agency analyst said this week. 
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/17080-1.html

Digital privacy may suffer in wake of attacks Privacy advocates warned
Thursday against the dangers of increased Internet wiretapping and
monitoring by law enforcement in the wake of Tuesday's hijacked airplane
attacks on landmark buildings in New York and outside Washington, D.C. 
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/1484734l.htm

Senator calls for encryption crackdown The horror of Tuesday's
coordinated attacks on the commercial and military centers of America
has prompted the U.S.  Congress to call for a global ban on
"uncrackable" encryption products.  Speaking in the U.S.  Senate on
Thursday, Senator Judd Gregg proposed tighter restrictions on software
that scrambles electronic data and often hinders a government's ability
to obtain valuable criminal intelligence. 
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2812463,00.html

Senate Expands Surveillance Powers Following Attacks In the wake of the
worst-ever terrorist attack to strike U.S.  soil, the Senate on Thursday
approved legislation that would dramatically expand the powers of law
enforcement agencies to track the online activities of suspected
criminals and terrorists.  http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170126.html
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46852,00.html

Spying on Terrorists and Thwarting Them Gains New Urgency Hoping to
prevent future terrorist attacks, House and Senate lawmakers expressed
broad support today for funneling more money to intelligence operations,
beefing up spy networks and creating one agency to handle terrorism. 
The nation spends an estimated $10 billion a year to fight terrorism, a
sum that many lawmakers from both parties called inadequate and that is
likely to be increased this session. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/14/national/14INTE.html

Hiding Like Snakes in the E-Grass The proliferation of cell phones,
e-mail and faxes is making the hunt for terrorists increasingly more
difficult.  Security agencies have literally billions of messages to
sift through every day -- many with encryptions that make it impossible
for anyone other than the intended recipient to read.  "If you have a
computer looking for 'bomb,' you'll get a lot of messages that have
nothing to do with terroristhreats, while the terrorists will be using
code words."
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,46817,00.html

This is how we know Echelon exists The European Parliament published its
report into the Echelon spying system last week in which it concluded it
did exist, was against the law and that the UK had a lot of explaining
to do.  We've sifted through about 100 of the 194 pages and decided that
since no one had yet to officially admit its existence, you may be
interested in how the European Parliament decided it was definitely out
there.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/21680.html

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