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April 10, 2002

FBI information systems still at 'substantial risk'
The FBI runs major risks of having its information
systems infiltrated despite the agency's recent
overhaul efforts, top FBI officials said Tuesday.
After the capture of Robert Hanssen, who worked
at the FBI for more than 20 years while spying for
the Soviet Union, the FBI has taken steps to bolster
its security and revamp its information management
practices. But Kenneth Senser, the FBI's assistant
director for security, told members of the Senate
Judiciary Committee that the agency, along with
other U.S. intelligence departments, still suffers
from the threat of security breaches.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0402/040902td1.htm

California Fax Spam Bill Clears State Senate Committee
A California State Senate committee Monday
approved a bill that would ban the delivery
of unsolicited faxes. The bill, S.B. 1358,
is sponsored by State Sen. Debra Bowen,
D-Redondo Beach, who late last year lost
her bid to create an employee e-mail
surveillance bill, and won in her efforts
to create stronger identity theft
protections in California.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175756.html

Spam: the ultimate anti-terrorist weapon
Junk mail technology could help the fight
Spam technology could be the key to defeating
terrorism, according to former US president
Bill Clinton. Talking to the BBC, Clinton
said that information management systems
used by junk mail companies could provide
an early warning about suspicious behaviour.
"More than 95 per cent of the people in
the US at any given time are in the computers
of companies that send junk mail, and you
can look for patterns there," he explained.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1130817

Fed report: Spam destabilising the Net
According to Federal Government findings,
spam accounts for 10 to 20 percent of e-mail
passing through commercial servers and is
starting to invade other Internet messaging
services. Australia's minister for information
technology Senator Richard Alston acknowledged
that spam has become a threat to the stability
of Internet services in a progress report on
the National Office for the Information
Economy's (NOIE) investigation into bulk
unsolicited e-mail.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,2000024985,20264515,00.htm

Net users out to sink anti-piracy bill
A digital-copyright bill introduced last month
has inspired howls of protest from consumers
and high-tech firms who say it could slow
technological advances and dictate how
consumers listen to music or watch videos
at home. Well-connected lobbyists and everyday
users alike have flooded Congress with faxes
and e-mails over the last several weeks to
lodge complaints against a bill that would
prevent new computers, CD players and other
consumer-electronics devices from playing
unauthorized movies, music and other digital
media files.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-879629.html

Andreessen: Copy protection efforts are doomed
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3031836.htm
CD copying war heats up
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2108122,00.html
US retailer joins in CD copy protection fracas
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2108111,00.html
Professor says Disney, other firms typify what's wrong with copyrights
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3034892.htm
Recording industry collects $1 million fine
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3030777.htm

Chat rooms a haven for hackers
Computer security expert Chad Harrington regularly
surfs Internet Relay Chat (IRC), one of the oldest
chat technologies on the Web. The IRC networks
have names like Dalnet and EFnet, but he agrees
that another name works just as well: eBay for
hackers. "Once the hacker or someone in the
underworld has personal information, credit
card numbers, social security numbers, address,
whatever it may be," says Harrington, once the
hacker "has that information and wants to sell
it, often they'll go to a hacker chat room,
a place on the Web using an Internet Relay Chat
which provides them some anonymity and allows
them to mention that they have this personal
information and they want to trade.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/04/10/hackers.chat.rooms/index.html

Fears of a Security Brain Drain
Some computer security professionals are already
feeling the pinch from a new Defense Department
policy discouraging contractors from hiring non-
citizens. The Pentagon says it's about loyalty;
visa holders call it classic xenophobia. When the
Washington Post reported last month that the U.S.
Department of Defense was crafting a new person-
nel policy, industry went on red alert. The new
policy stated that IT companies with defense
contracts would no longer be allowed to employ
non-U.S. citizens on unclassified projects.
http://online.securityfocus.com/news/367

Cost, Mistrust Hold Back Security Outsourcing
Fears about costs and reluctance to trust
a third party are holding back firms from
outsourcing security. That's among the main
conclusions of a survey of 100 IT managers
by the McAfee security division of Network
Associates, which revealed widespread
confusion about the financial pros and cons
of letting third parties handle anti-virus
protection.
http://online.securityfocus.com/news/366

Buffer overloads: the big security hole
Last month, Microsoft reissued its buffer-overflow
vulnerability announcement for Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP), which is included
within every edition of Windows except Windows Me.
This follows Microsoft's announcements earlier
this year of buffer-overflow vulnerabilities
in ISAPI in Microsoft Commerce Server 2000,
Microsoft SQL Server, and Telnet Server in
Windows 2000.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-879619.html

Agencies need to coordinate homeland security research
A great deal of money for homeland security and
research for new technologies to combat terrorism
is tucked in agency budgets across the government.
The trick is to coordinate efforts throughout
government to ensure that efforts are not
duplicated and that the research results will
be effective, senators said during a Wednesday
hearing.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0402/041002td3.htm

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