[iwar] [NewsBits] NewsBits - 07/22/02 (fwd)

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July 22, 2002

Spammers hit by Korean fines Six Web sites, including Internet portal
Korea.com, have been fined for bombarding Internet users with spam
e-mails, according to reports.  South Korea's Ministry of Information
and Communication (MIC) announced on Monday that penalties of between 4
million Korean won ($3,440) and 5 million Korean won ($4,300) are being
imposed on the six companies. 
http://zdnet.com.com/2110-1106-945453.html
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2119545,00.html

Cyber-security infrastructure faulted GAO report: At least 50 government
organizations involved Years after orders from the White House to beef
up the security of the nation=92s most important computer systems, the
government is having trouble identifying which organizations should be
involved and how they should be coordinated, according to a new report. 
http://www.msnbc.com/news/784200.asp

Davis pushes for baseline security standards in HSD markup Rep.  Tom
Davis wants to see at least some of his IT security bill, HR 3844,
rolled into Homeland Security Department legislation.  The Virginia
Republican, who chairs the Government Reform Subcommittee on Technology
and Procurement Policy, has asked Reps.  Richard Armey (R-Texas) and
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the leaders of the Select Committee on Homeland
Security, to add provisions of his Federal Information Security
Management Act to the final bill. 
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/19403-1.html

Lawmakers propose volunteer corps to guard nation's technology U.S. 
lawmakers want to enlist scientists and technology experts into a
volunteer defense corps similar to the military's National Guard to
protect the nation's communications systems from terrorists.  The U.S. 
Senate on Friday approved legislation to create the National Emergency
Technology Guard, teams of experts available to prevent and respond to
terror attacks on the nation's communications infrastructure. 
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/473380p-3783273c.html
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0722/web-vol-07-22-02.asp

Internet extends legal reach of national governments Police in Italy
didn't care that five Web sites they deemed blasphemous and thus illegal
were located in the United States, where First Amendment protections
apply.  The police shut them down anyway in early July, simply by
sitting down at the alleged offender's Rome computer.  Talk about the
long arm of the law. 
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3709326.htm
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/07/22/borderless.internet.ap/index.html

MPAA Snooping for Spies Hoping to end the online trading frenzy that has
plagued the music business, the movie industry is hunting down digital
film swappers and getting their Internet service cut off.  The action is
part of intensifying efforts by the entertainment industry to control
piracy, efforts that include invasive technical measures.  The Motion
Picture Association of America uses a special search engine to scour the
Web for copyright movies, which circulate on the same peer-to-peer
software networks as MP3 music files. 
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,54024,00.html

IETF puts weight behind Advanced Encryption Standard The Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF) has published standards for improvements
to SSL which add support for the recently ratified Advanced Encryption
Standard.  Request for Comments (RFC) 3268 adds support for AES to the
TLS protocol (Transport Layer Security - which was formerly known as
SSL).  As well as adding support for AES, the revision makes it easier
and more efficient to support forward secrecy. 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26311.html

Tips for preventing spam It's not exactly poisoning village wells, but
those who generate the tons of bogus and unwanted e-mail messages known
as "spam" ought to suffer ome appropriate punishment in the hereafter -
perhaps having a demon devoted to stuffing flaming pine cones up their
personal inbox.  In the meantime, those of us who originally switched to
e-mail to avoid the junk that came with snail-mail can at least do a few
things to get the electronic equivalent of a flea infestation down to
manageable proportions. 
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/473884p-3788619c.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2002-07-22-avoiding-spam=
_=20 x.htm

Liverpool: I Wanna Hold Your Spam A woman in a major British media
company recently contacted the company's entire, 30,000- strong staff
with an urgent query: "Has anyone got any blu-tack?" This type of
"occupational spam" -- in this case, a plea for the kind of adhesive
typically used to stick posters to walls -- has clogged up e-mail
servers so much that an English city council has banned the use of
internal e-mail one day a week.  External and personal mail is
unaffected by the ban. 
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53868,00.html

High-Flying Schmidt Unstoppable viruses, massive blackouts, hacked
pacemakers? The government's number two cyber security guy wasn't this
apocalyptic when he worked for Microsoft.  This month's dose of demented
prediction comes to you courtesy of Howard Schmidt, chairman vice of the
President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board.  Alleged "zero-day
viruses and affinity worms" will sunder business records, as reported in
Network World Fusion and credited to a Schmidt speech at an Information
Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) conference.  Brokerage
house trading records will be scrambled, corporate networks rendered
molten, CEOs humiliated.  http://online.securityfocus.com/columnists/97

Like it or not--we need Microsoft's security Back in January, the
industry's collective jaw dropped when an internal e-mail from Bill
Gates, clearly intended for wider circulation, announced to the world
that security was now the company's number one priority, even ahead of
new features.  http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-945405.html

Fingerprinting of UK school kids causes outcry The widespread
fingerprinting of UK primary school children has been roundly condemned
by watchdog Privacy International.  The human rights watchdog today
warned that tens of thousands of UK school children are being
fingerprinted by schools, often without the knowledge or consent of
their parents.  This under-reported electronic finger printing is being
conducted as part of a cost cutting "automation" of school libraries. 
Privacy International has condemned the procedure, branding it
"dangerous, illegal and unnecessary". 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26305.html

Do we need a national ID plan? Brad Jansen, an analyst at the Free
Congress Foundation, has long been a dogged opponent of national
identification cards.  In April, Jansen told a Senate panel that a
national ID means "a massive bureaucracy that would limit our basic
freedoms." In the past, he and the Free Congress Foundation have teamed
with the American Civil Liberties Union, forming an ad hoc coalition to
oppose federal standards for driver's licenses. 
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-945373.html
http://news.com.com/2010-1079-945347.html

Face recognition fails in Boston airport Test runs of the Visionics (now
Identix) magical face-recognition terrorist finder at Boston's Logan
Airport have failed miserably, as expected.  According to a story by the
Boston Globe, the security firm which conducted the tests was unable to
calibrate the equipment without running into one of two rather serious
problems.  When it's set to a sensitive level, it 'catches' world + dog. 
When it's set to a looser level, pretty much any idiot can escape
detection by tilting his head or wearing eyeglasses. 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26298.html

FBI fingers problem system The FBI's computer system upgrade is supposed
to enable FBI agents to gain electronic access to information in other
agencies' databases, but one database is likely to prove troublesome =97
IDENT, the Immigration and Naturalization Service's collection of more
than 4.5 million foreign visitors' fingerprints. 
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0722/news-fbi1-07-22-02.asp

First-responders key to strategy Under President Bush's national
strategy for emergency preparedness and response, the proposed Homeland
Security Department would build and oversee a comprehensive national
system for incident management, which would clarify the roles of
federal, state and local agencies in responding to terrorist attacks or
natural disasters. 
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2002/0722/web-local-07-22-02.asp


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