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Date: 2002-04-17 18:30:00

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Hackers target Israel
Middle East conflict moves into cyber space.
The conflict in the Middle East is being fought
in cyberspace as well as on the ground, showing
that hacking is developing into a recognised form
of international warfare, according to a leading
security analyst. Intelligence agency mi2g said
that the Israeli .il domain suffered 67 per cent
of all significant web defacements over the last
two weeks, while Israeli prime minister Ariel
Sharon has been caricatured in a new wave of
viruses.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1130941

Argentine judge rules in favor of computer hackers
Computer hackers may be the scourge of the digital
age, hunted down by police across borders, but in
Argentina they have found an unlikely ally -- the
very justice system they scorned. Warning of a
`dangerous legal void'' making digital crimes hard
to prosecute, a judge has ruled that hacking is
legal by default in Argentina. The decision came
in the case of cyberpirates who defaced the
Supreme Court's Web page.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3070194.htm
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2108417,00.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24877.html

Senators lambaste official over Bush's proposed tech funding
Irritated senators assailed a Bush administration
official on Tuesday, criticizing President Bush's
decision to cut funding for some technology programs
in fiscal 2003 and arguing that the federal investment
in such programs is paying dividends for the nation.
The Advanced Technology Program (ATP), for example,
"has been tried and true," Senate Commerce, Science
and Transportation Committee Chairman Ernest (Fritz)
Hollings, D-S.C., said in questioning the administration's
proposed reforms of that program and also the decision
to eliminate funding for the Manufacturing Extension
Partnership (MEP).
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0402/041602td1.htm
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175919.html

Government security survey under fire
Is the DTI just pushing products? A government IT
security survey out next week has been criticised
by users for hyping up the number of security
breaches, and being used as a vendor-sponsored
bandwagon to push products. The Department of
Trade and Industry's biennial Information Security
Breaches Survey 2002 found that four out of five
large companies fell victim to viruses, hackers,
fraud and other security breaches last year.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1130940

Behind the Security Breach Hype
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/17273.html

Poor IT security costs British business billions
A government-backed report discovers underinvestment
in IT security, and finds that the number of firms
suffering serious computer attacks has nearly doubled
from two years ago. Hacking and virus attacks are
costing British companies billions of pounds a year
because firms are failing to spend enough money on
IT security, according to an official report due to
be released next week.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2108453,00.html

Harris to defend Army computers
The Army announced April 15 that it has awarded
a multimillion-dollar contract to Harris Corp. to
help protect its worldwide computer networks from
cyberthreats. The award calls for deploying Harris'
Security Threat Avoidance Technology (STAT) Scanner
on more than 1.5 million Army workstations worldwide.
The work to install the vulnerability assessment
tool is already under way, according to a company
spokesman.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0415/web-army-04-16-02.asp

Technology to help local governments fight terror
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and
Public Technology are partnering in an initiative
to enhance local governments' ability to monitor,
detect and report chemical and biological releases
in the atmosphere. The multiyear initiative called
LINC =97 which stands for the Local Integration of
the National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center
with Cities =97 will help local agencies prepare
for and respond to urban terrorist attacks
involving chemicals and biological weapons.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/fcw2.htm

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