Return-Path: <sentto-279987-4946-1025791024-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 04 Jul 2002 06:58:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 27095 invoked by uid 510); 4 Jul 2002 13:56:43 -0000 Received: from n9.grp.scd.yahoo.com (66.218.66.93) by all.net with SMTP; 4 Jul 2002 13:56:43 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-4946-1025791024-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.67.195] by n9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 04 Jul 2002 13:57:04 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_7_4); 4 Jul 2002 13:57:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 36676 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2002 13:57:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 4 Jul 2002 13:57:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.72.152) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Jul 2002 13:57:03 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g64DvQU14279 for iwar@onelist.com; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 06:57:26 -0700 Message-Id: <200207041357.g64DvQU14279@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 06:57:26 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [iwar] [NewsBits] NewsBits - 06/28/02 (fwd) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=NEWSBITS,RISK_FREE,FREE_MONEY,DIFFERENT_REPLY_TO version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: [FC - Every few hundred issues I remind the forum that Deputy Ron Levine does this news summary and publishes it under NewsBytes]. June 28, 2002 Four Bay Area cities reported suspicious traffic on Web sites Four Bay Area cities received enough hits on their Web sites from Middle East countries last fall that some were shut down and cleansed of potentially sensitive information, the Mercury News has learned. The discoveries took on new urgency in January when computers linked to Al-Qaida hide- outs in Kabul, Afghanistan, were discovered to have been used to visit Web sites with information on digital switches controlling key elements of U.S. infrastructure, such as electrical grids, water systems and communication networks. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3560320.htm Tip from Mtn. View sparked online terror probe http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3554398.htm Related Documents and Resources On The Web http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50712-2002Jun26.html Soon al-Qaeda will kill you on the Internet The Business Software Alliance (BSA), known for kicking doors with dogs and brownshirts to sniff out expired licenses and for extorting vast sums of cash from non-compliant victims even more frightened of a visit from that federal Copyright -911 force also known as the FBI, has taken it upon itself to cobble up a survey which, in the addled minds of the mainstream press, indicates that al-Qaeda has obtained the weapons of mass, digital destruction, and is poised to use them. Western Europe and North America will be razed by a holy onslaught of SYN floods and VB worms and buffer overflows. All Christendom will be laid waste. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25938.html FBI nets broadband hackers Police swoop on $200,000 bandwidth thieves. FBI agents and US police have raided several homes in Toledo and seized computer equipment believed to belong to part of a hacker ring. Houses in Sylvania Township, Perrysburg and Oregon were searched following a four-month investigation into the alleged $200,000 theft of broadband access from the Buckeye Cablesystem network. Police maintain that the hackers altered the cable firm's equipment, giving them enhanced access to its Buckeye Express broadband service. http://www.vnunet.com/News/1133080 Hacking fears delay tax email service Taxpayers left with snail mail option only. The Inland Revenue has stalled plans to introduce an email service for taxpayers because of security fears. The department had planned a national email service, and has already installed more than =A3200m worth of computers. But, according to an inter- office memo, the taxman fears that hackers could intercept emails or infiltrate the network and masquerade as Nick Montagu, the department's chairman, for the purposes of reading and sending emails. http://www.vnunet.com/News/1133056 Music industry swamps swap networks with phony files Major record labels have launched an aggressive new guerrilla assault on the underground music networks, flooding online swapping services with bogus copies of popular songs. The online music sites know they're under attack. Darrell Smith, chief technical officer of StreamCast Networks, parent of the popular file-swapping service Morpheus, said he first noticed the practice about a year ago, but chalked it up to ``rogue teenage hackers just being obnoxious. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3560365.htm Spain's new e-commerce law worries privacy advocates Campaign against the Law on Services for the Information Society. Opponents of Spain's new e-commerce law - which requires Internet service providers to keep tabs on users - vowed Friday to challenge it in court as a violation of constitutional rights. But the head of a national Internet users association applauded the protections it offers for online consumers. The Law on Services for the Information Society is one of the first to comply with a European Union directive on regulating the Internet in the 15 member countries. http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/450481p-3603787c.html China targets unlicensed cyber-cafes China has threatened the operators of unlicensed Internet bars with criminal prosecution as part of a safety crackdown launched after a fire at an Internet cafe in Beijing killed 25 customers, state media reported Saturday. From July 1 to August 31, unlicensed cyber cafes will be shut down and the owners prosecuted, Xinhua News Agency quoting Ministry of Culture official Liu Yuzhu as saying. No new Internet bars will be allowed to open during that period, the report added. http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/451372p-3611890c.html Ballmer to China: 'Steal all the software you want, so long as it's ours' Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has signed a memorandum of understanding with China's State Development Planning Commission (SDPC) worth $750 million over three years, involving both software and services, Reuters reports. "We want the Chinese industry to grow. The success of Microsoft in every market, including China's, is highly dependent upon the growth of local industry. What's good for the local industry in every country is good for Microsoft," the wire service quotes him as saying. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25932.html Should bosses read our email? EU asks citizens 'What's he on about?' we wondered when EDS Chief Security and Privacy exec Paul Clark lashed out over European privacy legislation in a release on Wednesday. "EDS welcomes the recognition that privacy is a business as well as a legislative issue," he'd apparently told a meeting of privacy officers in Stuttgart last week: "However, political bodies should not use the business community as its 'foot soldiers' to impose their views on privacy standards on the rest of the world. Any involvement in commercial contracts potentially could increase the bureaucracy and complexity of compliance." http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25944.html In-Q-Tel, Investing In Intrigue CIA Unit Scours Country For Useful Technologies Like "Q," the gadget-maker who keeps James Bond perpetually ensconced in the latest high-tech gear, Gilman Louie is looking for technologies and ideas to give American spies an edge. Louie is the founding chief executive of In-Q-Tel, the venture capital unit of the CIA that -- no kidding -- named itself after the movie character. The group, created in 1999, has made about a dozen investments in technologies that could potentially be used in information gathering and analysis of America's enemies. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5577-2002Jun30.html ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Free $5 Love Reading Risk Free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/Pp91HA/PfREAA/Ey.GAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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