Return-Path: <sentto-279987-3286-1003813456-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:05:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 29040 invoked by uid 510); 23 Oct 2001 05:03:46 -0000 Received: from n8.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.58) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 23 Oct 2001 05:03:46 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-3286-1003813456-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.56] by n8.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 23 Oct 2001 05:04:16 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 23 Oct 2001 05:04:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 97105 invoked from network); 23 Oct 2001 05:04:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 23 Oct 2001 05:04:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta1 with SMTP; 23 Oct 2001 05:04:15 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f9N54Yc14792 for iwar@onelist.com; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:04:34 -0700 Message-Id: <200110230504.f9N54Yc14792@red.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 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet 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, 22 Oct 2001 22:04:34 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:US.Secret.Service.says.Nation.needs.more.online.Cyberwarriors] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit US Secret Service says Nation needs more online Cyberwarriors Mark Watson, Security News Portal, 10/22/2001 <a href="http://www.securitynewsportal.com/article.php?sid=2033&mode=thread&order=0">http://www.securitynewsportal.com/article.php?sid=2033&mode=thread&order=0> Stephen T. Colo, the U.S. Secret Service's deputy assistant director and chief information officer, said his office helped the White House Web site dodge the Code Red virus bullet in July. "We must now prepare for the possibility of a cyberthreat not only to the president, but to the nation as a whole," Colo told the audience of the Institute for Managing Emerging Technology's (IMET) Visions seminar. Colo's understanding of the culture of the Secret Service has helped him in his new role. Colo understands the needs and abilities of both special agents and technicians, and he can act as a translator. Since becoming CIO, Colo has pushed to bring more special agents into the information technology section so they can later serve as IT "champions" in the field...continued. A man who interviewed John W. Hinckley Jr. shortly after he shot then-President Ronald Reagan talked Friday about a different kind of violence - past, present and future cyberbattles. As part of the University of Memphis, IMET seeks to help people understand issues relating to emerging technology in areas such as information systems, electronic commerce, engineering, logistics and medicine. In recent months, pro-Palestinian groups have proposed a "cyber-Jihad" against Israel, and Israeli groups have responded in kind, Colo said. Similarly, Pakistanis and Indians have launched computer attacks against each other over Kashmir. A group of Romanian hackers attempted to extort money from U.S. credit card companies by placing clients' card numbers on the Internet unless they were paid off, Colo said. "They claim the payment is for computer expertise in showing the flaws in the (companies') system," Colo said. "In comparison . . . Al Capone was a small-time hoodlum." This same group had penetrated NASA and the Departments of Health and Human Services, Energy and Commerce. Former Iron Curtain countries have a large number of tech-savvy, underemployed people who try to make money or advance their political agendas by using the Internet in criminal ways, he said. In the audience, Brian Burns, who works on information technology security architecture at International Paper, said his company is spending more resources on this subject since Sept. 11. "It's fast become a more visible area in the company," Burns said. "It's getting a lot more attention." Colo said, "One of the major problems in combating cyberterrorism is there are not enough computer-literate law enforcement agents." The Secret Service's new Electronic Crime Special Agent Program is designed to help compensate for the lack of tech-savvy agents. Born in New Jersey, Colo came to the Secret Service after working as a police officer in the District of Columbia. He worked in the protection details of former presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush. Colo hesitated to accept the position of chief information officer in 1998, because his background is in law enforcement, not technology. "I'm probably the only CIO who carries a gun," he joked. "My excuse is that I have more than 3,500 armed customers, and I want to be on an equal footing." But Colo's understanding of the culture of the Secret Service has helped him in his new role. Colo understands the needs and abilities of both special agents and technicians, and he can act as a translator. Since becoming CIO, Colo has pushed to bring more special agents into the information technology section so they can later serve as IT "champions" in the field. The destruction of the World Trade Center, including the Secret Service's main New York office, brought home the need to beef up the agency's technical infrastructure to minimize long-term damage from an event at one location. About 250 agents made it out alive, but one was killed. "The information we lost in New York was devastating," Colo said. "We lost a lot of good cases, a lot of hard work, and we let a lot of criminals go free because we lost the records from there." ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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