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January 4, 2002

US Army Web Site Goes Dark In Asia-Pacific Region The main U.S.  Army
Web site is unreachable for many Web surfers in the Asia-Pacific region,
according to user reports and network test results.  Web surfers in
Taiwan and New Zealand have reported they are unable to reach the site
(http://www.army.mil ).  Tests conducted today using network trace tools
from Internet addresses in other Asian countries, including India,
Singapore, Korea and Hong Kong produced similar results.  Attempts to
access the Army site from Internet addresses in the U.S.  were
successful.  http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173391.html

India Shuts Down Net Access In Kashmir, Says Pakistan The Pakistan
government claims India has shut down local Internet access in the
troubled region of Kashmir and is policing Internet cafes in an effort
to restrict communications between Pakistan and Kashmir.  Pakistan's
long standing feud with neighbor India has escalated in the past month
after India blamed an attack on the Indian parliament on Pakistan-based
Kashmiri separatist groups. 
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173373.html

Appeals court upholds California's anit-spam law In a victory for anyone
annoyed by the distasteful ``spam'' that clogs e-mail boxes, an
appellate court has upheld California's tough 1998 law regulating
unwanted commercial messages.  A state appeals court ruled earlier this
week that California can require Internet ``spammers'' to identify their
e-mails as advertisements.  The court also said they must provide ways
for recipients to get off their mailing lists. 
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/071931.htm
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/1722610l.htm
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173401.html
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/01/04/antispam.law.reut/index.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/01/04/MN228257.DTL
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/01/04/calif-spam-law.htm

Utah student defends handling of AIM security flaw Brushing back
criticism, a 19-year-old Utah college student said on Thursday he
revealed a security flaw in AOL's popular instant messaging service
because when he tried to tell the media giant privately, he was ignored. 
``We never expected it to get this much attention,'' said Matt Conover,
the college student and one of the founders of w00w00, which bills
itself as the world's largest non-profit security team with more than 30
members in about nine countries. 
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/1722009l.htm

Was AIM hole report ignored?
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2836272,00.html
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8358574.html
Gartner: AIM shows a weak defense
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2836287,00.html
AIM Hole Highlights IM Weakness
http://www.techtv.com/news/hackingandsecurity/story/0,24195,3366733,00.html

Badtrans Victim Database Goes Commercial Rudy Rucker last month refused
to turn over to the FBI his massive database of users infected by a
recent Internet worm.  But the listing has lately become a
treasure-trove for organizations trying to root out Badtrans.B from
their networks.  According to Rucker, operator of Monkeybrains.net, a
small San Francisco-based Internet service provider, companies including
Prudential, Motorola, ETrade, British Petroleum and 3M have paid a small
fee to receive a list of their customers and employees culled from the
database of more than 300,000 accounts infected by Badtrans.B. 
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173402.html

Trojan horse conveys IE users to porn A new Trojan horse is redirecting
Internet users to pornographic Web sites by exploiting an old
vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE).  The JS/Seeker-E
script can arrive by e-mail or can be embedded into a Web page: When a
user opens the e-mail or clicks on the Web page, the script is
activated.  Once activated, Seeker attempts to change the user's IE
settings, such as the start page and search settings, and will redirect
the infected user to a porn site. 
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5101254,00.html
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102008,00.html

Microsoft alerts Passport users to patch IE Microsoft is pressing .Net
Passport users to install a patch for some versions of its browser
nearly two months after it fixed a security flaw that threatens their
personal data online.  The Redmond, Wash.-based company has sent
millions of e-mail notifications in the past month to Passport users,
urging them to visit a special Web page to determine whether Internet
Explorer needs a security upgrade. 
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8355007.html
http://securitycheck.passport.com/default.asp
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2836270,00.html
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102007,00.html
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1127984

Security hole hits patched Internet Explorer A patch issued by Microsoft
for IE 5.5 and 6.0 closed one security hole in the browsers, but appears
to have opened another one that is just as dangerous.  A new
vulnerability has been detected in Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE)
that could allow the execution of malicious code on systems running IE
5.5 and 6.0 of the browser. 
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2101972,00.html
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/zd/zd4.htm

Rare Linux virus on the loose It has emerged in the last week that
another of those rare Linux viruses may be on the loose.  And this one
has strong similarities to October's Remote Shell Trojan (RST) that was
largely dismissed by the Linux community.  In a posting to a security
mailing list at the end of December, SecurityFocus brought 'RST.b' to
the internet community's attention.  http://www.vnunet.com/News/1127965

Legal Fight Costs Federal Agencies Web Access, E-Mail A protracted legal
battle over mismanagement and poor computer security has left the U.S. 
Department of Interior, the National Park Service and a slew of other
agencies without e-mail and Internet access for nearly a month.  Now,
the hardship of living in the technological dark ages is beginning to
take its toll.  http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173393.html
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/01/04/interior-dept-offline.htm

New York Deletes Sensitive Information from Web Internet security
experts say removing information from the Web, while not a perfect
solution, can control who has access to it.  An unprecedented state
order to remove sensitive information from government-run Web sites has
prompted 10 agencies to delete a range of content, including the
addresses of nuclear power plants and driving directions to New York's
two emergency stockpiles. 
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/15594.html

Feds take minimal role in patching holes in cyberspace In the early
1800s, Prussian strategist Carl von Clausewitz wrote that even the
simplest things are difficult to accomplish during war.  Now, almost two
centuries later, he would probably laugh at the truth of his statement:
The United States has computers in just about every office and in most
homes, yet even the simplest computer-security defense plans are proving
difficult to implement. 
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0102/010402nj1.htm

Rise of Net 'Borders' Prompts Fears for Web's Future It is the
modern-day equivalent of a border sentry.  When visitors try to enter
UKBetting.com, a computer program checks their identification to
determine where they're dialing in from.  Most people are waved on
through.  Those from the United States, China, Italy and other countries
where gambling laws are muddy, however, are flashed a sign in red
letters that says "ACCESS DENIED" and are locked out of the Web site. 
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173389.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/681900.asp

Experts Foresee More Mass-Mailing Viruses In 2002 The forecast this year
calls for more mass-mailing viruses that shut down corporate servers and
more Trojan code that opens up backdoors into computer systems,
according to security experts.  The forecast this year calls for more
mass-mailing viruses that shut down corporate servers and more Trojan
code that opens up backdoors into computer systems, according to
security experts. 
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cmp/20020103/tc/inw20020103s0004_1.html

Tenacity Carries The Cybersecurity Message When national cybersecurity
czar Richard Clarke talks about the danger that cyberterrorists pose to
the nation's computer systems, it's clear he believes a major attack is
simply a matter of when.  He warns of a "digital Pearl Harbor," in which
an attack on one portion of the nation's IT infrastructure would have a
domino effect on other systems, halting operations at hospitals,
airports, and utilities.  "Our enemies know our technology as well as we
do, and our enemies will use our technology against us," he says.  "Our
enemies will find the fissures and the seams in our high-tech economy."
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20011221S0014

Information Operations New course explores using information as a weapon
Recent events both in America and abroad have shown that the nature of
warfare is changing.  Information has become both a weapon and
battlefield.  The Army has developed a new Functional Area - Information
Operations - to train soldier to fight and win on this new battlefield. 
The TRADOC Commander saw a need to increase the Army's IO capability and
directed that IO courses be set up immediately to support the ongoing
military operations. 
http://www.ftleavenworthlamp.com/display/inn_news/news3.txt

Sept.  11 myths abound online Tales embellished as they speed across the
Web.  The way most people heard it, a "friend of a friend" received a
letter on Sept.  10 from a former boyfriend, an Afghan, begging her not
to fly on commercial airplanes on Sept.  11.  The story was passed
around in early October because the boyfriend had also warned her not to
visit malls on Halloween.  http://www.msnbc.com/news/681820.asp

A Deadly Collection of Information Killer Paid Online Data Broker for
Material Obtained Through Trickery.  On the last day of her life, Amy
Boyer could not have known a killer was waiting for her on her way home
from work.  But her stalker knew exactly where she would be.  As the 20
year-old dental assistant slipped into her Honda Accord on a quiet road
just off Main Street here one day in October 1999, the obsessed young
man pulled up, shot her repeatedly and then turned the gun on himself. 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59329-2002Jan3.html
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/173387.html

Study: Face-recognition system flawed, a failure A network of
surveillance cameras tied to face- recognition technology run by the
police in this city is flawed and has not led to any arrests, according
to an ACLU study released Thursday.  Tampa was the first city in the
United States to install the permanent camera surveillance system along
public streets.  Thirty-six cameras were deployed June 29 in Ybor City,
the city's nightlife district. 
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/01/04/police-cameras.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23559.html


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