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October 11, 2001

Hoax e-mail warns of mall attack At a time when Americans are plagued by
a generalized fear of an invisible enemy, the latest urban legend from
the Internet warns specifically of a terrorist attack on a mall on
Halloween.  The e-mail message, which began circulating Oct.  5,
describes a story the author heard from a ``friend of a friend'' whose
Afghan boyfriend stood her up on a date Sept.  6.  On Sept.  10, the
e-mail message says, she received a letter begging her not to get on any
commercial airlines the next day and not to go to any malls on
Halloween.  http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/045342.htm

FBI Warns of 'Skyfall' Attack In a brief but dramatic statement, the FBI
warned Thursday that Americans should expect additional terrorist
attacks.  A two-sentence press release on FBI.gov said there "may be
additional terrorist attacks within the United States and against U.S. 
interests overseas over the next several days."
http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47510,00.html

Authorities Find Clues to Terror Finances Officials in France and the
Philippines release info on funds controlled by bin Laden network. 
International officials say they have made strides in tracking down the
sources of financing for the al Qaeda network run by Osama bin Laden,
considered the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks. 
http://www.techtv.com/news/politicsandlaw/story/0,24195,3353149,00.html

Anti-Terror Hackers Claim Arab National Bank Breach Vigilante hackers
apparently penetrated the security of a Saudi bank Wednesday, even as
the hackers' own Web site was defaced by a notorious computer prankster,
Fluffi Bunni.  In an effort to locate financial information about
terrorists, a member of a group called Yihat claims to have breached the
defenses of an Internet-connected server operated by Arab National Bank. 
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171035.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/22183.html

Fighting Evil Hackers With Bucks Worried about the threat of
terrorists-turned- hackers, members of a House panel spent Wednesday
puzzling over how Congress could improve computer security.  "What
legislative and other steps are needed to increase the focus on computer
security?" Rep.  Sherwood Boehlert (R-New York), chairman of the House
Science committee, asked at a "cybersecurity" hearing.  Boehlert added:
"We want to focus on real, concrete problems and develop specific
solutions." http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,47479,00.html

More tech businesses cooperate with FBI.  As thousands of leads poured
into the FBI after last month's terrorist attacks, the bureau converted
its Internet Fraud Complaint Center into a repository for tips received
by e-mail.  http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/064893.htm

Secrecy foe joins U.S.  move to scrub data on Web Qualms about
publishing data that could be used to plot terror attacks have prompted
a leading official-secrecy foe to scrub its Web site joining a trend
well under way among U.S.  government agencies.  The Federation of
American Scientists, a staunch advocate of government openness, said
Thursday it had yanked about 200 of its estimated half-million Web pages
since Sept.  11 terror attacks killed some 5,500 people in the United
States.  http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/041555.htm
http://www.msnbc.com/news/641578.asp

Security updates deliver a problem A group of German hackers have
exposed a new vulnerability in Symantec's LiveUpdate 1.4, which could be
used to download and run hostile code from an unauthorized server. 
Symantec, which makes antivirus and security software, has confirmed
that older versions of its virus definition software will allow the
deployment of malware such as trojan application viruses, and the remote
penetration of systems running LiveUpdate. 
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2817368,00.html

Congress Wrestles With Surveillance Bills Although civil liberties
advocates have applauded the efforts of lawmakers to temper a pair of
sweeping anti-terrorism bills making their way quickly through both
houses of Congress, many fear that - no matter what passes - they will
have suffered a major loss. 
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171052.html

On Capitol Hill: An issue of data sharing There's an effort in the
United States Congress to approve legislation that would encourage
companies to share security data with each other and with the
government.  "We have a blind spot in this situation, a major national
blind spot," says Sen.  Robert Bennett, Republican of Utah, about the
bill he's co-sponsoring with fellow Republican Sen.  John Kyle of
Arizona.  It would protect from public disclosure security data that's
shared with the government by a private company. 
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/10/11/congress.data.sharing.idg/index=
.=20 html

A Senator's Lonely Privacy Fight
http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47490,00.html

Advocates lament halting of access to criminal filings.  A few weeks
ago, online access to federal criminal filings suddenly stopped.  Though
court records remain publicly available on paper at courthouses, they
were deemed too public when it came to the Internet. 
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/013895.htm

US Cyber-Czar makes a sound suggestion The man who repeatedly disgraced
the memory of thousands of US Sailors who died horribly in a Japanese
aerial bombing with trite blather about an "electronic Pearl Harbor" has
come around with a fairly sound idea for inter- governmental secure
communications.  http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/22156.html

Should the government get its own Net? The Bush administration has
apparently decided that the Internet isn't secure enough for its needs
and has proposed a new network be created to communicate critical
government information.  The new network, dubbed Govnet, is the
brainchild of Richard Clarke, the newly appointed presidential adviser
for cyberspace security, and is intended to carry data, voice-over-IP
and possibly video. 
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5098134,00.html
http://www.techtv.com/news/internet/story/0,24195,3353271,00.html
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/17274-1.html
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001/10/10/cybersecurity-supercompu=
t=20 er.htm

Security experts leery of government Net Network-security professionals
supported the Bush Administration's idea of a separate government
Internet but stressed that security on such a network will be elusive. 
Actions as simple as a government employee connecting a nonsecured
computer to the network or loading data from a diskette could compromise
the entire system, experts said. 
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5098169,00.html
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7493027.html

More cybersecurity study 'crucial' New research funds=97and possibly a
new way of thinking=97are necessary to meet an urgent need to secure
computer networks supporting the nation's critical infrastructure, said
academic, industry and government panelists at a congressional hearing
Oct.  10.  The number of academic researchers examining computer
security is dangerously low, and the federal government needs to provide
more money and focused support to change that, panelists told members of
the House Science Committee. 
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/1008/web-cip-10-11-01.asp

Who Owns the Law? When Texas retiree Peter Veeck posted some local
regulations on his website, he had no idea he was sparking a major legal
battle over who actually owns the law.  Napster, Mp3.com, the RIAA, and
Metallica.  DeCSS, DMCA, SDMI, and DVD.  Encryption, fair use,
proprietary software, and e-books.  If you've been following the glut of
legal battles raging over copyright infringement since the
popularization of the Internet, then you probably recognize most of
these names and terms. 
http://www.techtv.com/cybercrime/digitaldisputes/story/0,23008,3344180,00.h=
tml

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