Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1162-988333459-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:05:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 1932 invoked by uid 510); 27 Apr 2001 00:05:34 -0000 Received: from ej.egroups.com (64.211.240.230) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 27 Apr 2001 00:05:34 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1162-988333459-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.56] by ej.egroups.com with NNFMP; 27 Apr 2001 01:04:20 -0000 X-Sender: fc@all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 27 Apr 2001 01:04:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 62107 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2001 01:04:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 27 Apr 2001 01:04:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta1 with SMTP; 27 Apr 2001 01:04:18 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id SAA28632 for iwar@onelist.com; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:04:18 -0700 Message-Id: <200104270104.SAA28632@all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:04:18 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] news Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: U.S. Government cyberdefense lacking U.S. General Accounting Office reviews of 24 agencies (including Treasury, the IRS, and Social Security) reveal that security gaps place ``a broad range of critical operations and assets at risk from fraud, misuse, and disruption.'' During the year 2000, 155 federal computer systems (some with sensitive information) were taken over by unauthorized users who gained full administrative privileges. The military recorded 715 serious attacks in that period. [Source: Study of government computers faults security, by Poornima Gupta, Reuters, 5 Apr 2001; PGN-ed http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/1053144l.htm] Bush comment inflames China: "President Bush stoked a new controversy on US-China relations yesterday by saying unambiguously that the United States would do 'whatever it took' to defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese attack, even if that meant using US military forces," says the Washington Post. The New York Times also led with the story. http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A66-2001Apr25.html http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/26/world/26PREX.html Anti-US sentiment growing: "Anti-Americanism is rising at ... an alarming rate in Europe," says the Daily Telegraph. Britain's shadow foreign secretary worries the US will be driven "into the chill embrace of isolationism." http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=3D004867320648907&rtmo=3DLxLbG3Ld&atmorrrrrrrq&pg=3D/et/01/4/26/wmaud26.html Aborted plot: A USA Today item asserts that, after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, "the Kennedy administration considered a plan to blow up a US Navy ship, fake casualties, and blame it on Fidel Castro." ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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