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October 25, 2001

California AG says he's probing pre-attacks cyberterrorism California's
attorney general says the state is investigating well-coordinated
cyber-attacks that targeted computers in California and 21 countries and
ended September tenth.  Speaking at an anti-terrorism conference of law
enforcement officials from Northern California, Bill Lockyer said the
attacks were systematic, extensive, and appeared to be
government-sponsored. 
http://home.abc28.com/Global/story.asp?S=3D515707&nav=3D0zGK2RaY5GaQ

China sentences computer hacker to two years According to Chinese media,
the hacker posted a message in English advocating the splitting up of
China.  Police arrested Lin Qican after tracing the defacement to a
computer at the bank he worked in.  The court also ordered the
27-year-old to pay around =A3360 in compensation. 
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_431829.html

Indian news sites hacked Two of India's leading news organisations are
reviewing their cyber security after their websites were hacked,
allegedly by Pakistani-based groups.  Zee News and India Today were at
the receiving end on Tuesday when their portals were hacked by the
Pakistani-based Gforce Pakistan and Pakistani Hackerz Club. 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1617000/1617478.stm

Taiwanese hackers reportedly broke into Army Web site Taiwan's
Investigation Bureau is looking into a claim that local hackers broke
into a U.S.  military Web site in the wake of the Sept.  11 terror
attacks, officials said Wednesday.  "An investigation is now under way,"
a bureau official told AFP in response to a report by the Liberty Times
newspaper.  He declined to give details. 
http://www.nandotimes.com/world/story/156851p-1482681c.html

Window Security Site Defaced With Anti-XP Message As Microsoft Chairman
Bill Gates was celebrating the release of Windows XP in New York today,
Web vandals replaced the home page of Windowsecurity.com with a
derogatory message about Redmond's new operating system. 
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171523.html

Senate clears anti-terror bill for Bush signature The U.S.  Senate
Thursday gave final congressional approval to a landmark bill that would
expand the power of law enforcement to track down terrorists.  President
Bush, who has sought such legislation since shortly after the Sept.  11
attacks on the United States, is expected to sign the measure into law
Friday.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/017978.htm
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/020818.htm
http://www.techtv.com/cybercrime/privacy/story/0,23008,3356335,00.html
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/17374-1.html
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171520.html
http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47893,00.html
http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47858,00.html
http://www.usatoday.com/hphoto.htm

Ashcroft to speed Net search for terrorists
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5098796,00.html

Politics: House's anti-terror bill requires judge to
monitor FBI's use of e-mail surveillance system.
The anti-terror bill passed Wednesday by the
House will require a judge to monitor the FBI's
use of an e-mail surveillance system that has
raised concerns about privacy.
http://www.nandotimes.com/politics/story/156953p-1484013c.html
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001/10/24/carnivore.htm

House passes bill to add leeway in searches, wiretaps
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/hottopics/attack/bill102501.htm
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/049828.htm

White House asks industry to develop secure network.
President Bush's special adviser on cybersecurity
on Wednesday told hundreds of information
technology specialists that he wants the private
sector's recommendations on how to build a secure
nationwide intranet for government agencies and
their estimates on its cost.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1001/102501td1.htm

German Carriers Told To Install Cyber-Snooping Tech The German
government has rushed through proposals forcing telcos to install
cyber-snooping technology that would give police and security agencies
access to most German communications.  While the proposals have been on
the table for almost five years, their progress was held back prior to
the events of Sept.  11 because of consumer privacy issues and the costs
of installing surveillance systems at smaller Internet service providers
(ISPs).
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171516.html

Devastating Attacks on the Net "imminant" A new wave of devastating
internet attacks is just waiting to happen, says a report by a US
internet watchdog.  What is more, there is there is currently little
chance of preventing it.  The threat is a variation of the "denial of
service" (DoS) attack, commonly used by malicious hackers to block a
website by bombarding it with spurious requests.  However, the new
threat would target routers, key hubs of the internet's infrastructure,
instead of individual websites. 
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=3Dns99991477

Alert System Sought for Internet Attacks News of cyberattacks, viruses
and hoaxes often spreads through the computer security world in the same
haphazard way as gossip.  Jonathan Disher, who oversees the security
network for Internet Pictures Corp., for instance, gets his information
from several Web sites, two e-mail lists, pages and phone messages. 
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171505.html

Hacktivists take sides in war.  GForce is one of the most prolific
hacker groups.  Online graffiti artists are taking the war on terrorism
to cyberspace.  It is not the kind of cyber-warfare that some have
envisioned with state-sponsored super hackers targeting key networks and
wreaking offline havoc as water, power and transportation systems go
down. 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1614000/1614927.stm

'Jam Echelon Day' called a success An international day of protest
designed to jam the US-led communications spy system Echelon was a
"rousing" success according to its organizers, who claim that the
cyber-demonstration helped to raise public awareness about the
surveillance system.  Jam Echelon Day took place on October 21, and
encouraged members of the Internet community to send out as many e-mail
messages as possible, containing so-called trigger words that the
Echelon system is believed to pick up on. 
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/newsbursts/0,7407,2820233,00.html

Tool lets users copy a hard drive without a trace.  Law officers use
this forensic kit, even though it can take a half an hour.  Even before
the terrorist attacks, the Secret Service and other law enforcement
agencies were using the Image MASSter Solo 2 Forensic Kit, a three-piece
hardware kit for covertly copying a suspect=92s computer files. 
http://www.gcn.com/20_31/reviews/17323-1.html

XP vulnerable to DoS attacks "It suffers from being very complicated,"
Steven Gibson says, trying to explain why he thinks a little-known
feature of some operating systems could spell doom for businesses on the
Internet. 
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2819030,00.html

Big Brother Is E-Watching You A new digital video surveillance system is
a real eye-opener.  Biscom Inc.  has unveiled Webeyealert and its cache
of weapons aimed at keeping tabs on work environments, schools, airports
and other venues via live video on the Web, or via mobile devices. 
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171522.html

Bin Laden hack-meister in defacement, financial debacles Shameless
German glam-h4x0r Kim Schmitz aka Kimble, who recently stole headlines
with his YIHAT (Young Intelligent Hackers Against Terrorism) publicity
stunt and his unsubstantiated claims to have hacked a Sudanese bank with
/bin/laden accounts, has been fingered in a defacement of
SecurityNewsPortal (SNP) which prompted the site's sudden closing.  Oh,
and the flamboyant Schmitz is broke, too. 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/22457.html
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171473.html

Homeland Cyber Security =96 We Need a Czar, Not a Coordinator President
Bush has appointed a National Advisor on cyber-security; but without the
means to enact real change, the appointment will be another in a long
line of failed initiatives.  Coordinator =96noun- An equal, one who
fosters consensus and agreement toward a shared goal.  Czar =96 noun =96
A person with great authority. 
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/32

County tries virtual terror training Florida's Osceola County is looking
to virtual reality tools to help it test the terrorism section of its
Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP), the detailed strategy
all municipal organizations have to prepare and keep up-to-date. 
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2001/1022/web-fla-10-25-01.asp

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