Return-Path: <sentto-279987-4039-1008040968-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.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, 10 Dec 2001 19:24:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 20466 invoked by uid 510); 11 Dec 2001 03:23:04 -0000 Received: from n7.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.57) by all.net with SMTP; 11 Dec 2001 03:23:04 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-4039-1008040968-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [216.115.97.166] by n7.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 11 Dec 2001 03:22:46 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_2); 11 Dec 2001 03:22:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 14223 invoked from network); 11 Dec 2001 03:22:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m12.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 11 Dec 2001 03:22:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.125.69) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Dec 2001 03:22:45 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id fBB3NEj23451 for iwar@onelist.com; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 19:23:14 -0800 Message-Id: <200112110323.fBB3NEj23451@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, 10 Dec 2001 19:23:13 -0800 (PST) Subject: [iwar] [NewsBits] NewsBits - 12/10/01 (fwd) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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