Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1244-990283954-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); Sat, 19 May 2001 07:53:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 27568 invoked by uid 510); 19 May 2001 13:54:13 -0000 Received: from hm.egroups.com (208.50.99.198) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 19 May 2001 13:54:13 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1244-990283954-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.52] by hm.egroups.com with NNFMP; 19 May 2001 14:52:34 -0000 X-Sender: fc@all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 19 May 2001 14:52:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 74337 invoked from network); 19 May 2001 14:52:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 19 May 2001 14:52:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta2 with SMTP; 19 May 2001 14:52:32 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id HAA05305 for iwar@onelist.com; Sat, 19 May 2001 07:52:31 -0700 Message-Id: <200105191452.HAA05305@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: Sat, 19 May 2001 07:52:31 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] news Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit May 17, 2001 "Mawanella" worm sends political message Hundreds of companies worldwide have fallen prey to another mass-mailing worm created by the virus toolkit that unleashed the AnnaKournikova worm, antivirus companies said Thursday. Called Mawanella--the name of a Sri Lankan village--the worm carries a Sri Lankan political message, but does no real damage besides clogging networks with e-mail. The worm has mainly affected companies in Australia and Europe, said Vincent Gullotto, director of the antivirus emergency response team at security company Network Associates. "We got lots of reports coming in throughout Europe within a two or three-hour period," he said. "While it's blasted Europe, it's been spotty in the U.S." http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5961595.html http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/165828.html http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5083078,00.html http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/05/17/sri.lanka.worm.idg/index.html Pentagon says it is under daily computer attack Unidentified hackers have been trying to break into Defense Department computer networks in a constant push to disrupt U.S. military forces, the Pentagon's chief information officer said Thursday. ``DoD is probed on a daily basis by those who are trying, or planning to disrupt our nation's military capabilities,'' acting Assistant Secretary of Defense Linton Wells told a House Armed Services subcommittee. Last year, attackers pierced unclassified Defense Department networks 215 times, up slightly from 1999, but classified systems remained inviolate, said Army Maj. Gen. David Bryan, commander of the military's recently renamed joint task force for computer network operations. http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/000650.htm Professor warns of threat to free speech Edward Felten, the Princeton University professor who was muzzled from giving a speech about cracking digital watermarks, warned Thursday that if it happened to him, it could happen to you. Speaking in a packed Stanford University lecture hall, Felten said he thinks he will eventually win the rights to publish his work, which so far has been quashed by the entertainment industry. "The music industry was seeking control over what we could write in our paper," Felten said. "That's a dangerous precedent." The Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI)--a group working to protect digital mater asking participants to try to break some watermark technology it was considering using. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5965326.html Scientists see parallels in computer, biological viruses Scientists studying how diseases spread believe there are many parallels between computer viruses and biological ones, enough so that when doctors want to know how AIDS engulfed a village in Africa, they may do well to look to their computers. Contrary to the idea that computer viruses immediately explode into a pandemic, the scientists found that the infection rate starts out very slowly among a small group of friends or a single company. A computer virus can ``exhibit clique behavior, with pairs of connected individuals sharing many common neighbors, reducing the opportunities for secondary infection events,'' scientists Alun Lloyd and Robert May write in Thursday's edition of the journal Science. http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/037790.htm [FC - 17 year old results published by 'real scientists' make the big time.] ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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