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Trail of hackers who targeted U.S.  Navy leads to German university
Hackers who stole a top-secret U.S.  Navy program that manages spy
satellites commandeered a university computer in provincial Germany for
the break-in, police and academics confirmed Wednesday.  SWR4 radio in
Germany reported earlier that the program was stolen in December from a
navy site in Washington D.C.  using two computers at the University of
Kaiserslautern, 100 kilometres southwest of Frankfurt.  Whoever took
over the computers has not been identified.  The radio report said that
just the economic value of the program was huge: an annual licence to
use it would cost 60 million dollars.  But the software was also
strategically valuable as it would allow someone to control the
espionage satellites. 
http://www.AntiOnline.com/2001/05/16/eca/0186-0609-Germany-Crime..html

Washington state Web site hacked The Washington state Legislature's Web
site was defaced with Chinese characters, possibly the latest attack in
an Internet skirmish over a spy plane incident.  The attack was
discovered Saturday and repaired quickly, said Cathy Munson, director of
the Legislative Service Center.  "We're at this point assuming it's
Chinese hackers, but since we don't know Chinese characters we don't
know exactly who it is," Munson said, adding no information was lost and
there was no permanent damage. 
http://www.uniontrib.com/news/computing/20010516-0147-webattack.html

2600 hackers hijacked Hacker group 2600 has been subjected to a domain
name hijacking.  Due to a database error at domain registrar Network
Solutions (NSI), a company called NB Productions was recently able to
register 2600.com illegally.  According to 2600, the problem dates back
to June 2000 when the domain's registration was transferred from NSI's
registrar database, apparently by using a false email address. 
According to a statement from the hacking news site: "This resulted in
our site both existing and not existing at the same time, as it was
entered into the registry database but not into NSI's internal cosmetic
database."
http://www.silicon.com/public/door?REQUNIQ=989998222&6004REQEVENT=&REQINT1=44418

Copy-protected CD hacked--or is it? Free copies of songs from country
music singer Charley Pride's latest album appeared on the Internet this
week, just shortly before a version of the CD incorporating new
anti-copying technology was released in US stores on Tuesday.  The CD,
released by Nashville-based, Music City Records, features Pride's new
album, "A Tribute to Jim Reeves." Eight of the 15 songs on the CD were
posted, on Monday, on a private Web page hosted by Yahoo.  The
appearance of MP3s from the album muddies the debate over the
effectiveness of CD encryption schemes in one of the first such
commercial releases.  Phoenix-based SunnComm, which provided the
copy-protection technology for the CD, said the leaked songs did not
come from a cracked CD but were likely copied from an unprotected set of
2,000 CDs released in Australia. 
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2001/19/ns-22845.html

Cheese worm: A Linux fixer-upper? System administrators worldwide
reported signs Wednesday that another self-spreading program --or
worm--had started to infect Linux systems.  This worm appears to be
different, however: Dubbed the Cheese worm, the program is basically a
self-spreading patch.  It enters servers that have already have been
compromised by a previous bit of malicious code--the 3-month-old 1i0n
worm --and closes the back door behind it, adding security to the
system.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5949401.html

An Outlook worm to jam NSA's Echelon UK-based anti-virus outfit Sophos
is reporting a new variant of the LoveBug Outlook worm which contains a
large amount of hidden text, apparently designed to attract the US
National Security Agency's Echelon spy satellite network and overload
it.  Comments within the executable file include large swaths of text
such as: "NSA national security agency code PGP GPG satellite cia yemen
toxin botulinum mi5 mi6 mit kgb .mil mil base64 us defence intelligence
agency admiral diplomat alert! BATF," and so on.  As for social
engineering, this worm looks like a total non-starter.  The subject line
reads, !!!; the body reads, :-) MuCuX...; and then there's an attached
file: echelon.vbs.  We don't expect it to get very far. 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19004.html

Eurocops want seven-year retention of all phone, Net traffic The
official EU body that represents the member governments will recommend
the long- term retention of personal data at a meeting with the European
Commission later this month, according to documents leaked to
London-based civil liberties journal Statewatch.  The Council of the
European Union, which represents the 15 member governments, will discuss
implementing a policy originally designed with the FBI six years ago. 
It calls for the retention of "every phone call, every mobile phone
call, every fax, every e-mail, every website's contents, all internet
usage, from anywhere, by everyone, to be recorded, archived and be
accessible for at least seven years," notes the journal.  The proposal
gives law enforcement agencies powers far beyond authorised, approved
interceptions.  Existing provisions permit data to be retained for the
length of the billing period, up to 90 days. 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/19003.html

Potential Cyberattacks Worry U.S.  Sen.  Ron Wyden didn't think Cuba
posed a military threat to the United States and believed that Rear Adm. 
Thomas Wilson would reinforce that view when he raised the subject with
Wilson at a Senate hearing.  Wilson's answer surprised Wyden, D-Ore. 
Wilson, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said Cuba has the
potential to use ``information warfare or computer network attack,''
enabling the country ``to disrupt our access or flow of forces to the
region.'' Moments later, the public portion of the Senate Intelligence
Committee hearing ended and the participants continued their discussion
in secret.  The little-noticed exchange took place in February.  Wyden
acknowledged later to a reporter that he had thought Cuba was too weak
to be a threat to the United States.  After hearing Wilson's testimony,
Wyden said he believes the issue ``warrants further review.''
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010516/tc/cuba_cyberterrorism_1.html

White House plans to overhaul computer security plan The Bush
administration's approach to computer security will focus on realigning
federal agencies' responsibilities for their own computer networks
before revising the national plan that details how the government and
the private sector should work together to combat threats from hackers
and cyberterrorists, administration officials said Tuesday.  The
realignment of government responsibility may involve changes to the
current patchwork of agencies that each oversees a piece of the problem,
said Kenneth Juster, who was sworn in Monday as the new head of the
Bureau of Export Administration.  Amplifying a White House statement on
cybersecurity last week, Juster said the agency review would be
completed over the next several weeks. 
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0501/051601td.htm

NIST launching security review The National Institute of Standards and
Technology next month will begin reviewing agency security programs and
practices as part of an initiative started by the Clinton
administration.  The NIST Computer Security Expert Assist Team (CSEAT)
is a group established to help agencies comply with Presidential
Decision Directive 63, the May 1998 order requiring agencies to protect
the systems that support the nation's critical infrastructure.  Such
systems include essential services like the power grid and the National
Airspace System. 
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0514/web-team-05-16-01.asp

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