[iwar] [NewsBits] NewsBits - 04/23/02 (fwd)

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April 23, 2002

Rumbled Russian hackers banged up
Five-year sentences for $1m ATM fraudsters
The ringleaders of a Russian hacker group that
misappropriated almost $1m from foreign bank
accounts have been put behind bars. Russian
newspaper Kommersant reported yesterday that
Zviadi Beria and Vladimir Medvedov had been
sentenced to five years in prison. Between
1999 and 2000 the duo, along with a number
of other hackers, fraudulently manipulated
ATM machines around Moscow and stole almost
$1m from foreign accounts.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1131176
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/373274p-3003779c.html

Norwegian jailed for Web racism
A Norwegian extremist has been jailed for
posting racist and anti-Semitic propaganda
via a server based in the United States.
It is the first time anyone in Norway has
been jailed for racist Web postings and
campaigners say there could be repercussions
beyond Norway's borders. Tore Tvedt, 59,
was sentenced to 75 days in jail with 45
days suspended and two years probation
after being convicted on anti-racism charges.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/04/23/norway.web/index.html

Porn star debuts vicious virus
'Jenna Jameson' worm sucks, say experts.
A "highly aggressive" virus using the name
of a well known porn star to aid infection
has been spotted in the wild.  Antivirus
firms have warned that the 'Jenna Jameson'
virus has a "large potential for spreading"
because it tricks users into executing the
code by tempting them with links to free
pics of the porn star doing the nasty.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1131174

Over 4,500 Domains Point Users To Webcam Porn Site
Ben Edelman just wanted to find a good bicycle
repair shop nearby. Instead, he stumbled onto
one of the biggest schemes on the Internet
for generating traffic to pornography sites.
According to Edelman, a senior at Harvard
College, 4,525 Internet domains currently
funnel unsuspecting visitors to an adult
entertainment site called Tina's Free Live
Webcam.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176060.html

Vermont Child-Porn Monitoring Law Struck Down
Free-speech advocates, including the American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), have convinced
a federal judge to hobble a Vermont law that
prohibits the online transmission to children
of certain sexually oriented images and text.
U.S. District Court Judge Garvan Murtha, in
a ruling last week from Brattleboro, Vt.,
agreed with the ACLU and groups that included
the publishers of sex-education Web site
SexualHealth.com, that the year-old Vermont
law trampled on First Amendment rights with
a broad definition of nudity and sexually
explicit material summed up as "harmful to
children."
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176086.html

Start-up defends DVD-copying software
In a pre-emptive strike to stave off the wrath
of the movie industry, a small software company
is asking a federal judge for permission to sell
and market its product for copying DVDs. In a
complaint filed Monday in federal court in San
Francisco, 321 Studios asked the court to declare
that its DVD Copy Plus program does not violate
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. "This
lawsuit involves the ability of a small Internet
company to market and sell an instruction manual
and bundled computer software that teaches legal
owners of DVD movies to make legitimate backup
copies of the contents of a DVD for their own
personal use," the suit states.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-889915.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-889455.html
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176080.html

Europe plans to jail hackers
The European Commission has unveiled new
proposals that could send Internet hackers
and spreaders of computer viruses to jail
for years. Industry and security experts
welcomed the proposals, but said more needed
to be done to get companies, cautious of bad
publicity, to report Internet attacks and to
boost law enforcement resources in the fight
against cybercrime.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-889332.html
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2108982,00.html

=91Brute force=92 card thieves attack
Hackers just dial through account numbers
until they find one. You might call it the
least creative way to steal credit card
numbers =97 but it works, and it=92s costing
merchants thousands of dollars. In the past
several weeks, computer criminals have taken
to running thousands of nickel and dime
charges through merchant accounts, picking
credit cards numbers at random. Most are
declined. But the few that are authorized
mean the criminal has struck gold.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/742677.asp

Computer Forensics Lab Teaches High-Tech Sleuthing Methods
'Just because something is deleted from a hard
drive doesn't mean that it's gone. It just means
that the pointer to it is gone,' assistant
professor David Dampier told NewsFactor. 'The
first thing you want to do is freeze the system,
so no one has the opportunity to attempt to
destroy evidence.' At Mississippi State
University (MSU), college students will be
learning to investigate crime using advanced
computer forensic techniques. MSU faculty
members recently equipped a lab designed to
teach students to track the activities of
computer-based criminals -- such as hackers,
embezzlers and child pornographers.
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/17398.html

National laboratories accelerate counterterrorism efforts
The military's spectrum pitch: 'Our calls must
go through' The military will need more spectrum
to complete its transformation to a network-
centric organization and to keep the nation
safe from attack, officials from all branches
of the military told a House panel on Tuesday.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0402/042302td1.htm

Coast Guard official warns of gaps in information systems
The Coast Guard must bridge "significant gaps"
in its information and communications capabilities
in order to fight terrorism abroad, protect
maritime commerce and prevent high-risk cargo
from entering U.S. ports, a top Coast Guard
information official said Monday. "We have
a significant challenge in building information
systems that support our operational assets ...
so that these people can make decisions right
on the spot," Chief Knowledge Officer Nathaniel
Heiner said during a "knowledge management"
conference sponsored by E-Gov.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0402/042302td2.htm

Technology industry must innovate in fight against terrorists,
Ridge says. The technology industry must invent
and invest in new ways to undermine terrorists
targeting the United States, Homeland Security
Director Tom Ridge said Tuesday night.  And the
country's leading high-tech firms must also make
sure they are watching their own backs, Ridge
told members of the Electronic Industries Alliance
attending a conference at a Washington hotel.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3124954.htm

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