Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1212-989195641-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); Sun, 06 May 2001 17:40:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 25464 invoked by uid 510); 6 May 2001 23:40:29 -0000 Received: from fj.egroups.com (64.211.240.231) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 6 May 2001 23:40:29 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1212-989195641-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.54] by fj.egroups.com with NNFMP; 07 May 2001 00:34:01 -0000 X-Sender: fc@all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 7 May 2001 00:33:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 93786 invoked from network); 7 May 2001 00:33:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 7 May 2001 00:33:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta1 with SMTP; 7 May 2001 00:33:59 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id RAA06075 for iwar@onelist.com; Sun, 6 May 2001 17:33:59 -0700 Message-Id: <200105070033.RAA06075@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: Sun, 6 May 2001 17:33:59 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] news Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit May 4, 2001 Hackers storm White House Web site Online vandals launched a denial-of-service attack on the Bush administration's Whitehouse.gov domain Friday, similar to assaults that crippled Yahoo and seven other major Web sites more than a year ago. While government and FBI representatives would not confirm whether the site was indeed under a denial-of-service attack, two Internet service providers said they found evidence of a coordinated strike on government information servers that support the site. Between 5 a.m. and 8 a.m. PDT, page requests to the Whitehouse.gov address went unanswered, said Dan Todd, chief technologist for public services for Internet performance service Keynote Systems. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5082369,00.html http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5825982.html http://www.msnbc.com/news/568952.asp China sounds fresh hacking alarm over Web showdown Chinese Internet security officers have alerted Web sites to the likelihood of more attacks in a ''hacking'' war kicked off by the Sino-American spyplane standoff, the China Daily said Friday. The Computer Network and Information Security Management Office told Web operators an average of 100 sites a day had seen ``some form of attack,'' higher than normal, the paper quoted an official at the Web security office as saying. http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/1162015l.htm Hackers Hit 'Genius Grants' Web Site The Web site of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a major philanthropic organization best-known for its yearly "genius grants," has been defaced by hostile computer hackers or "crackers" with a waving red-and-yellow Chinese flag. http://63.108.181.201/2001/05/04/uu/0000-0379-bc-china-us-cyberwar.html Chinese hack vital Web sites For two whole days this week, the American public was denied access to the Web site of the Albuquerque office of the Department of Energy by hackers purportedly operating out of the People's Republic of China. Those who turned for solace to the railroad site run by the Department of Transportation were out of luck, too: hackers struck that site as well as some sites run by the Labor Department, the Department of the Interior and the National Institutes of Health. Hackers also hit the United Press International site, amazing many who didn't even know the UPI was still in business, let alone had a Web site. http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctweek.htm Chinese Hackers Step Up Attacks On US Web Sites http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/165327.html U.S. Hackers Retaliate Against Chinese Attacks http://www.idg.net/ic_528092_1794_9-10000.html US 'National Security' surveillance up in 2000 US federal agents filed a record 1,005 applications to perform electronic surveillance and covert physical burglaries in supposed terrorism and espionage investigations last year, all of which were granted, according to US Department of Justice (DoJ) figures made public Wednesday. The FBI's national security wiretapping in 2000 shattered the previous record of 886 applications in 1999, and took up the slack from an overall decrease in surveillance in conventional criminal investigations during the same period, according to figures the Department of Justice reported to Congress last week, obtained by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) under the Freedom of Information Act. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/18730.html Cyberwar? More Like Hot Air Hackers on both sides of the Chinese-American cyberwar suddenly seem to have lost interest in their war games. For sure, there is still some fussing and feuding - Chinese hackers' sites are filled with pleas to launch denial- of-service attacks against U.S. government sites. Messages on U.S hackers' sites urge all patriotic hackers to join in the campaign against China. And the website defacements continue, with each side claming to have despoiled hundreds of sites. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,43520,00.html ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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