Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1236-989932727-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); Tue, 15 May 2001 06:20:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 23821 invoked by uid 510); 15 May 2001 12:20:34 -0000 Received: from n4.groups.yahoo.com (HELO hk.egroups.com) (216.115.96.54) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 15 May 2001 12:20:34 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1236-989932727-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.52] by hk.egroups.com with NNFMP; 15 May 2001 13:18:48 -0000 X-Sender: fc@all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 15 May 2001 13:18:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 3135 invoked from network); 15 May 2001 13:18:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 15 May 2001 13:18:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta3 with SMTP; 15 May 2001 13:18:22 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id GAA30947 for iwar@onelist.com; Tue, 15 May 2001 06:18:21 -0700 Message-Id: <200105151318.GAA30947@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: Tue, 15 May 2001 06:18:21 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] news Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sino-US cyber war spreads to South Korea South Korean computers have been attacked by Chinese and US hackers who have been involved in a cyber war over a US spy plane detained by China, officials said Monday. A South Korean government computer security agency said 164 cases of hacking of sites run by universities, companies, research and private groups had been blamed on the Sino-US cyber war since May 4. A Korea Information Security Agency official said the most recent case affected a site run by Seoul National University on Sunday. The hacker changed the opening page to a screen containing abusive statements about the US government. http://63.108.181.201/2001/05/13/ANA/0042-0043-SKorea-US-China-Internet....html Iran police close hundreds of Internet cafes TIranian police have closed down more than 400 Internet cafes in the capital Tehran, demanding that the owners obtain licenses to stay in business, newspapers and cafe owners said Sunday. Owners said telecommunications authorities had banned the use of Internet sites offering cheap telephone connections to relatives abroad, citing a state monopoly on long distance calls. ``The police closed down 400 Internet cafes throughout Tehran in five days, they say you have to have a license,'' cafe owner Mohammad Chizari told Reuters. http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/1187633l.htm GPO Web Site Hit by 300,000 Attempted Hacks Agency Losing Revenue As Information Is Downloaded at The Rate of 32 Million Publications Per Month. In the first four months of this year, the Government Printing Office Web site was the target of about 300,000 hacker attempts, according to Public Printer Michael DiMario. All of the attempts have been detected by the system's anti-intrusion systems, and no hacker has been able to penetrate the protective fire wall, although one intruder did get into an HTML page. "I'm not saying we're the most secure, but we've got a very, very good [security system]," DiMario said last week. http://63.108.181.201/2001/05/14/RLCL/0000-0645-KEYWORD.Missing.html Interpol posts advice against IT crime on website The international police organization Interpol has stepped up its action against cybercrime with a new section on its Web site on how to combat malicious computer viruses. ``Transnational crime of this nature can be particularly difficult to investigate,'' Interpol's Secretary-General Ronald Noble said in a statement Monday. ``Computer viruses are a real threat. Our virus alert section will enable computer users to keep up to date, '' Noble said in the statement, released by Interpol's Lyon headquarters. http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/1189122l.htm http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/newsbursts/0,7407,2760022,00.html http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/05/14/interpol.reut/index.html http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-05-14-interpol-cybercrime-site.htm U.S. Military Plans Mandatory Cyberdefense The Pentagon wants to mandate application and network security services for the military, and later this summer plans to issue guidelines that the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines will need to follow to protect Web-based resources from cyberattacks. The Defense Department recently told military brass that computer network defense will be mandatory. It will propose guidelines on use of firewall, intrusion-detection and antivirus technologies that it wants deployed across its sprawling global networks that include three million users at 1,500 locations. http://www.nwfusion.com/archive/2001/120659_05-14-2001.html MSN UK fails IE6 privacy standards - apparently One of the wondrous innovations in IE6 is its P3P-awareness. This is illustrated by the little warning sign you'll see at the bottom of the page if the site you're visiting doesn't have a privacy statement that is P3P-readable. If you've got IE6, you can check this on The Register front page, because we don't have such a thing, and quite frankly we're a bit grouchy about having to go to the trouble of knocking one up. Hell, we've got a privacy statement. Mainly because IBM told us they wouldn't book ads if we didn't get one, but it's not always the thought that counts. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18944.html Rolling Blackouts Roll into a Provider Near You With California's power problems so apparent in the news (and even more apparent to those living in the state), the following question is posed: Are power outages a security concern and what, if any, risks do they pose? On May 8th, 2001, the hosting service provider Exodus was temporarily knocked offline by an explosion in a generating electric company, underneath the provider's building. No one intended for this to happen, and by all accounts it was an "accident" due to the problems that the state is currently facing with its power supply. Was this to be considered a Denial of Service? Many would argue that since this was more an "Act of God" than a malicious attack, then No, it shouldn't be something for security professionals to concern themselves with. There are, however, some inherent risks that are compounded when something unfortunate happens such as this. http://www.securityportal.com/articles/blackouts20010514.html ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-~> SearchSecurity.com is your free resource that aggregates the best security news and resources from around the Internet daily. So you have a partner that does all of the research that you don't have time to do - from the most comprehensive daily news, to the largest collection of security links and interactive community features anywhere. http://us.click.yahoo.com/PnDLcC/uGiCAA/EGNFAA/kzAVlB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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