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July 31, 2002

RIAA Site Hit With Denial-of-Service Attack
Attack began just one day after controversial
legislation was proposed to crack down on
peer-to-peer piracy. The Recording Association
of America's Web site was knocked offline over
the weekend in what appeared to be a denial-
of-service attack, an RIAA representative
says Tuesday.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,103451,00.asp
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3764979.htm

Cybersecurity czar encourages hacking
A presidential adviser encouraged the nation's
top computer security professionals and hackers
Wednesday to try to break computer programs, but
said they might need protection from the legal
wrath of software makers. Richard Clarke,
President Bush's computer security adviser,
told hackers at the Black Hat conference that
most security holes in software are not found
by the software maker. "Some of us, here in
this room, have an obligation to find the
vulnerabilities," Clarke said.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2002-07-31-security-hacking_x.htm
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-947409.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-947409.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/788216.asp
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/19486-1.html

EU solicits anti-cybersquatter advice
The European Union is looking for suggestions
about how to deal with cybersquatting as it
prepares to launch the .eu domain, Matthew
Clark writes. The European Commission's Internal
Market Directorate-General is looking for help
from businesses or individuals that have faced
cybersquatting in the past. In this vein, the
Commission has launched an on-line questionnaire
for interested contributors wishing to provide
information. The deadline for submission is 31
October 2002.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/23/26459.html
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2120092,00.html

HP invokes DMCA to quash Tru64 bug report
Hewlett Packard has threatened to use computer
crime laws and the controversial Digital
Millennium Copyright Act to muzzle a group
of security researchers who unearthed
a flaw in its Tru64 operating system.
The threat comes in a letter to SnoSoft
from HP Veep Kent Ferson warning that
the security researchers "could be fined
up to $500,000 and imprisoned for up to
five years" for its role in publishing
code that demonstrated the vulnerability,
CNET's Declan McCullagh reports.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26468.html
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1134030
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-947325.html

U.K. surveillance laws may be illegal
The United Kingdom's Regulation of Investigatory
Powers Act (RIPA), which gives U.K. law enforcement
agencies access to consumers' mobile phone and
Internet data, may be illegal, according to U.K.
information commissioner Elizabeth France. The
act, passed two years ago, may violate human
rights laws because of a loophole under which
law enforcement agencies may access data that
has been retained specifically for use in cases
involving national security. The information
commissioner warned the U.K. government's Home
Office of this conflict in a legal opinion
issued this week.
http://zdnet.com.com/2110-1103-947414.html
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2120139,00.html

Pentagon to impose limits on wireless devices
The wireless soldier may be getting some new
strings attached. The Defense Department,
concerned that hackers or spies might eavesdrop
on classified meetings or secretly track the
locations of top U.S. officials, is imposing
new limits on its workers use of the latest
generation of wireless devices inside military
buildings.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2002-07-31-pentagon-wireless_x.htm
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3769089.htm
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0702/073002tdpm.htm

Feds look to secure wireless nets
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0729/web-wire-07-31-02.asp

Wi-Fi users warned of pirates
AT&T Broadband is warning customers to secure
their Wi-Fi networks after an unusual case
in which a subscriber played an unwitting
role in dispatching a pirated movie over
the Internet, the company's spokeswoman
said. The movie pirate lived next door to
the subscriber, but was able to access his
neighbor's Wi-Fi wireless network and use
it to send the movie out over his neighbor's
AT&T Broadband's high-speed Internet service,
according to AT&T Broadband spokeswoman Sara
Eder.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-947496.html

Copyright, Security, and the Hollywood Hacking Bill
Proposed copyright enforcement legislation may
circumvent fundamental constitutional protections
and create chaos on the Internet. Copyright
enforcement, the attempt by the entertainment
industry to prop up their obsolete business
models, is increasingly a danger to the
legitimate use of information technology
and, by extension, the future of the
Internet community.
http://online.securityfocus.com/columnists/99

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