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December 10, 2001

Arrested Goner Creators Left Obvious Online Trail
Despite efforts to hide behind nicknames and
stolen Internet accounts, four Israeli teenagers
responsible for creating the Goner Internet worm
were easy to identify, investigators said. The
names of the teens, who were arrested Friday by
police in the northern city of Nahariya, were
not disclosed under Israeli law.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172821.html
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2831287,00.html
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/029004.htm
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/1700027l.htm
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/1699938l.htm
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2100605,00.html
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-8127515.html
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,48969,00.html
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172821.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/23278.html
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/190175p-1841930c.html

How Goner suspects were tracked down
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/23292.html

Anti-India Hackers Turn Attacks on US Systems
The security of five Internet servers operated
by the U.S. General Accounting Office was
breached Sunday by a hacking group known as
Anti India Crew. Laura Kopelson, a spokesperson
for the GAO, confirmed that a network intrusion
had taken place and said the agency was
investigating. According to Kopelson, the
agency's main Web site at http://www.gao.gov
was not affected, but she declined to provide
further information.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172829.html

Interior Dept. Sites Still Down
Web wanderers looking for information on
national parks, government mapping services
or geological disasters will need to get
their information from non-official websites
for a while. A hired hacker's ability to
easily penetrate computer systems operated
by the Department of Interior has resulted
in a legal order taking the entire system
offline until the network can be secured.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48980,00.html

Sifting through crisis info
A Utah congressman's amendment to a bill
approved last week by the House Science
Committee includes a provision to set up a
research center to investigate ways technology
could help government agencies respond to
crises. Rep. Jim Matheson's (D-Utah) amendment
to the Networking and Information Technology
Research Advancement Act provides up to $10
million a year over the next five years for
a Crisis Management Enabling Technology Center.
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2001/1210/web-crisis-12-10-01.asp

Oracle paints a bull's-eye for hackers
Since Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison
began boasting that his software was
"unbreakable," hackers have taken that as
a challenge to try to crack the company's
code and the confidence behind its brash
marketing effort, executives said this
week. In the seven weeks Oracle's
"Unbreakable" ad campaign has been running,
hacking attempts on the company's Web site
have increased ten-fold, Ellison said
during his Oracle OpenWorld keynote
this week.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2831288,00.html
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/018731.htm

Online birth records spark privacy debate
In California, a family history buff uses
Internet birth records to track down long-
lost relatives. In New York, celebrity-
hunters employ a voter information Web
site to figure out where Jerry Seinfeld
and Uma Thurman live. In New Hampshire,
a deadly stalker pays an online detective
to track down the Social Security number
and work address of his victim.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/prvcy120901.htm

ESPN Reclaims Lost Domain Name Through Dispute Process
Forget to pay registration fees for that
great Internet address of yours and some
quick-fingered speculator might snap it
up faster than you can type your credit
card number at the Web site of your
favorite domain registrar. Or, say there's
some technical glitch and your registrar
- and mother ship registry Network Solutions
- spits your domain into the open market.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172820.html

IT in play at Olympics
State Department visa system screens coaches,
athletes for terrorist connections. The State
Department has issued more than 9,000 visas
to Olympic participants using a new high-tech
security system that makes it possible to check
their backgrounds for terrorist connections
before electronically issuing a forgery-proof
document.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/1210/news-oly-12-10-01.asp

MicronPC gives thumbs-up to security
Wireless networking may be the height of
fashion for the notebook about town, but
MicronPC is going a step beyond with a new
security design. On Monday, both MicronPC
and Gateway began offering new notebooks
that let people connect wirelessly to
corporate networks that use the 802.11b
standard.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-8128595.html

Eye in the sky will track Calif. parolees
The California Corrections Department is
developing a program to track parolees via
the Global Positioning System. The department
signed an agreement last month with Digital
Angel Corp., a subsidiary of Applied Digital
Solutions Inc. of Palm Beach, Fla. The
Riverside, Calif., subsidiary makes devices
for monitoring an individual's whereabouts
and vital statistics.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/17632-1.html

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