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Subject: [iwar] [NewsBits] NewsBits - 02/08/01 (fwd)
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February 8, 2001
Hackers say 'love bug' was ammo in cyberwar
Welcome to hackers' paradise, where cyberspace is
a battle ground, computers are fortresses that rival
gangs try to wipe out with sophisticated viruses and
Onel de Guzman, the suspected author of the "love bug,"
is revered as "The Terminator." Hackers here are
convinced that the love bug went out of control last
May during a cyberspace war between rival local gangs.
The bug is widely considered to have been history's
worst computer virus and may foreshadow worse to come,
some experts fear.
http://sns.chicagotribune.com/technology/sns-lovebug.story
E-envoy to wage war on hackers
Andrew Pinder, the newly appointed UK government E-envoy,
is spearheading a security crackdown to stop the spate of
website hacking that has so embarrassed Whitehall. "We
will press hard on standards for security," he said. "It
is important that government sites conform to reasonable
standards so that people feel that government is secure
and cannot be brought down. We will define strong
guidelines to prevent the sorts of attacks that we have
seen recently." Pinder's pledge comes just before the
first meeting of the UK's National Crime Squad, which
will announce how its newly formed National Hi-Tech Crime
Unit (NHCU) will improve incident reporting procedures
and evidence gathering on security breaches. The European
Commission is also proposing a network of similar units
to enforce an international computer misuse law.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1117450
Reps. Saxton, Chambliss Intro Cyber-Terrorism Measure
Reps. James Saxton, R-N.J., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.,
this week introduced legislation that calls on the
government to develop a new legal framework to prosecute
hackers and other Internet criminals. Saxton and Chambliss
offered a House resolution that also labels cyber-terrorism
"an emerging threat to the national security of the United
States which has the potentiality to cause great harm to
the nation's critical infrastructure..." The resolution
also calls for a public-private industry partnership to
combat cyber-crime, and a multi-agency study to assess the
threat of cyber-terrorism to the US. The study would be
conducted by the Commerce and Defense Departments, along
with the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence
Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Cyber-crime
is a high priority not only in the US at this time, but
throughout the world. How to fight it is an issue that has
received far from unanimous agreement, however. The Council
of Europe has adopted a draft-cyber-crime treaty, but many
privacy advocates as well as a number of corporate lobbying
groups have signaled their opposition to it.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/161746.html
Stop using the boogeyman to sell security
The boogeyman may be a childish cliche, but security
professionals use him all the time in their attempts
to convince corporate management to buy into whatever
project they're advocating. The security industry has
for years been in the business of selling fear. Its
dire warnings of catastrophic events have become so
commonplace, management has tuned them out.
http://www8.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2680126,00.html
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