Re: [iwar] [fc:Youth.plot.to.'take.down'.internet,.FBI.claims]

From: Brian McWilliams (brian@pc-radio.com)
Date: 2002-01-15 20:42:15

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Fred,

For some reason this story has been making the rounds today, despite being 
published a year ago.

The risks of relying on Moreover.com for news filtering?

Brian

At 11:14 PM 1/15/2002, you wrote:
>Youth plot to 'take down' internet, FBI claims
>Reuters, 1/15/2002
><a 
>href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=168369&thesection=technology&thesubsection=general">http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=168369&thesection=technology&thesubsection=general>
>
>LOS ANGELES - A group of teen and young adult computer hackers allegedly
>planned an international conspiracy in which they hoped to "take down
>the internet" on New Year's Eve, federal agents in Los Angeles said.
>The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Friday it has seized computers,
>floppy disks, CD-ROMs and other related equipment for further
>investigation but have not made any arrests in the United States.
>FBI Special Agent Matt McLaughlin said four Israeli youths were arrested
>in their country in connection with the alleged conspiracy.
>The agent added that the FBI was contacted by Dalnet, an international
>provider of Internet chat rooms, last October and told that several
>young people using their chat rooms had disabled some of their computer
>systems and were discussing cyber-terrorism online.
>A 16-year-old Lynnwood, Washington, resident under investigation had
>boasted on a personal Web site that a plot to sabotage communications
>hardware on the Web would "take down the internet on New Year's Eve
>2001."
>The teenager later told the Los Angeles Times in an interview published
>in Friday's editions that the case is overblown and based on his
>misguided efforts to impress his friends in cyberspace.
>However FBI agents took the boy's online missives seriously. They
>searched his mother's house December 22 and seized computer equipment,
>McLaughlin said.
>Youths from California, Michigan and Israel were also found to have
>discussed cyber-terrorism in some chat rooms and are suspected of trying
>to inject a malicious computer code into the Web servers that form the
>communications backbone of the internet, he said.
>That would have allowed them to shut down some chat rooms and other
>realms of the internet, and possibly gain access to some peoples'
>personal computers, the agent said.
>"There is an ability with the proper program to take over another
>person's private computer and make that a robot where you can operate it
>remotely," McLaughlin said.
>"A lot of identity theft occurs as a result of hackers going into
>private computers, taking the information there and doing with it what
>they will."
>FBI agents said it is difficult to know whether the teens were
>exaggerating because agents thwarted an alleged attack before it was
>able to occur.
>"The severity of the threat was such that it required a preemptive
>search. It's just not worth allowing something like this to happen where
>there is probable cause to believe it will. I say there was probable
>cause because a federal search warrant was signed regarding this
>matter," McLaughlin said.
>
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