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Microsoft: Mideast piracy costs $100 million
Computer software piracy in the Middle East
costs U.S. industry giant Microsoft Corp.
$100 million a year, although piracy has
declined in some parts of the region, a
senior company official said on Monday.
"Software piracy is costing the company
yearly about $100 million in the Middle
East and $12 billion worldwide," Bahram
Mohazzebi, Microsoft's general manager
for the Gulf and Eastern Mediterranean,
told Reuters. He said the level of piracy
was declining in some regional states,
including the United Arab Emirates,
Jordan and Lebanon.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/12/11/mideast.microsoft.reut/index.html
Pentagon reports more hacker attacks
The Defense Department suffered more than 22,000
electronic attacks on its computer systems in 1999
and about 14,000 in the first seven months of this
year, the Pentagon's chief information officer said.
The vast majority of those attacks were either harmless
or caused only petty harassment, but in a few cases,
hackers believed to be working for foreign countries
have broken into unclassified computer systems and
downloaded large amounts of information, said Arthur
Money, the assistant secretary of defense for command,
control, communications and intelligence. Pentagon
officials said that, to the best of their knowledge,
the Department of Defense's classified computer
systems have not been breached.
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/042207.htm
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/1204/web-afcea-12-08-00.asp
India@sleep over new anti-hacker rules
The group of Pakistani hackers who run the website
f...india.org boast of having defaced 642 Indian
websites. Among their more recent victims: Indian
Science Congress and Zee Networks. The internet's
lack of central control has allowed such hate sites
to flourish. However, Indian authorities remain in
the dark about recent changes in web governance
that could knock such sites out of cyberspace.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/101200/detFRO04.asp
Overseas offices fall prey to crackers
Security experts have warned that overseas offices
are being targeted by cybercriminals looking for
weak links in IT security policies. Crackers are
increasingly attacking US or European companies
by defacing the websites of their satellite offices.
Experts warn that this pattern may be repeated in
industrial espionage aimed at compromising general
network security.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1115279
Cyber Corps proposals due soon
Students who want to make a living fighting
hackers soon could have more money at their
fingertips -- provided they're willing to
work for the government for a couple years.
On Friday, President Clinton promoted an ROTC
like federal program known by the nickname
Cyber Corps, which is designed to train the
network security specialists of the future.
Universities have until Wednesday to submit
preliminary proposals for such programs.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/bursts/0,7407,2663296,00.html
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1200/121200p1.htm
Personal firewalls not so safe
It's one thing to rush an application to market
without thinking about security. It's another to
rush a security application to market. But that's
what's happened with several personal firewalls -
a product category that was a virtual nonentity
a year ago but is now standard fare for anyone on
a broadband connection, including telecommuters.
Personal firewalls are designed to block suspicious
incoming and outgoing traffic on a client or even
block an application from using the Internet
altogether. It's an important job, since broadband
connections are always on and, hence, easy prey for
hacker programs that can sniff out their IP
addresses. But many of these personal firewalls
have a design that's easy to compromise with just
a few lines of code, according to several sources.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2663028,00.html
The era of cyberwar has arrived
The Internet offers some incredible benefits. Not
only is it fast becoming the backbone of a newly
emerging global economy (for better or worse), but
perhaps more important, it now offers people the
opportunity to communicate with others around the
world almost as if they were neighbors. Unfortunately,
however, it hasn't taken long for the idea, and
practice, of war to also come to the Internet. This
perhaps isn't ironic. The Internet, after all, was
designed by the U.S. military for war, as a way
to maintain communication networks even in the case
of a massive attack. The distributed nature of the
Internet makes this possible.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20001212wo63.htm
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