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Hackers put pornography on Hamas Web site
Hackers invaded the Internet site of the
Muslim militant group Hamas to make it
show pornography on Tuesday, after the
fundamentalist organization claimed
responsibility for a suicide bombing that
killed three Israelis. Web surfers trying
to access www.hamas.org were re-routed
automatically to a pay-for-view pornographic
site offering a fare ranging from ``kinky
co-eds'' to ``Latina fetish.'' Sheikh Ahmed
Yassin, spiritual leader of the political
wing of Hamas, accused Israeli intelligence
of being behind what appeared to be the
latest attack in an Israeli-Arab cyberwar
on the sidelines of a five-month-old
Palestinian uprising.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/927382l.htm
Japanese Hackers Attack Government Web
Site Over Territorial Row With China
The Saitama prefectural government closed
its web site Monday after discovering that
hackers had pasted on the site messages
criticizing Japan over a territorial row
with China, prefectural officials said.
The top page of the site had been replaced
with a picture of a Chinese tank and Chinese
language messages, one of which claimed the
disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China
Sea - known as the Diaoyu Islands in Chinese -
belong to China.
http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=302245
EC Data Protection Laws Not
The application service provider (ASP)
industry has warned the European Commission
(EC) of the dire need to review its data
protection laws across Europe. Simon Lloyd,
a spokesperson for the ASP Industry Consortium,
told Newsbytes that the warning comes after
research showed there are gaps in country
by-country data protection legislation. "The
problem is that the European Union (EU) data
protection legislation stems from the original
1995 data protection directive," he said, adding
that, although the law has been updated, the
original legislation was drawn up before the
ASP model was even conceived.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/162766.html
Council of Europe debates international treaty on cybercrime
As Europe moves closer to an ambitious
international treaty on cybercrime,
Internet industry specialists on Tuesday
raised concerns that the final version
might endanger users' privacy. Four years
in the works and now in its 25th draft,
the Council of Europe's treaty is likely
to be ready for signature by year's end.
But some industry observers say the
convention could stifle the Net's
free-for-all nature by giving governments
too much power. On Tuesday, the Council of
Europe's parliamentary assembly convened a
panel of private Internet experts, police
officers and academics in Paris to debate
the controversial text in front of reporters
for the first time.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/073504.htm
Security consultants to be licensed
IT security consultants could soon join
wheel-clampers and bouncers in having to
apply for licences. The UK government's
Private Security Industry Bill proposes
the creation of an authority to set
standards of conduct and training for
consultants, and to carry out inspections.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1118593
Revenge of the Nerds
Cyber-terrorism poses new threats to national
security, and U.S. defense policy must anticipate
the menace. You wake up one morning and realize
that your power is out. The phone that acts as
your lifeline to the world is also inoperative.
The entire infrastructure on which you depend
has been attacked and reduced to shorted
circuits. Does this situation sound somewhat
far-fetched? It may very well be. Almost all
discussion of the significance of cyber-terrorism
includes such a scenario as a plausible reality,
but the United States has yet to fall victim.
http://www.hpronline.org/us/vivero.cyberterror.shtml
The Great Security Debate: Linux vs. Windows
Microsoft operating systems have often been
attacked for their vulnerability, but the
perception that the software titan's systems
are insecure is changing as the company shores
up its servers and applications. Meanwhile,
supposedly stronger Unix and Linux systems have
suffered security breaches of their own.
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/7907.html
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