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Bush said to be planning cybersecurity board
The Bush administration plans to create a board of
senior national security officials to oversee the
federal government's critical infrastructure
protection efforts, effectively doing away with
the idea of designating a single cybersecurity
"czar," sources said. The move was said to have
been agreed upon during a July 2 meeting with
President Bush, who gave National Security Adviser
Condoleeza Rice and other officials the green light
to prepare a draft executive order setting up a
Cybersecurity and Continuity of Operations Board.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/07/12/cybersecurity.board.idg/index.html

Industry body slams new security bill
The Computing Technology Industry Association (CTIA)
has led a stinging attack on the UK Government's
Private Security Issue Bill (PSIB), claiming that
it is yet another burden on IT and network
professionals. A spokesman for the CTIA said it
would mean that security employees will have to
obtain a licence from the Government in order to
gain employment. The Bill faces stiff opposition
from network professionals mainly because it refers
to workers in physical security, but has left the
definition open to include electronic security.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1123870

European Parliament restricts access to personal data
Cappato report challenges plans to give law enforcement
greater access to electronic communications. The
European Parliament (EP) Civil Liberties Committee
approved a report by the radical MEP Marco Cappato
on Wednesday, in favour of a strict regulation of law
enforcement authorities' access to personal data in
the electronic communications sector. The decision
complicates continuing efforts by the European Council
to give individual countries the power to force telecoms
and other communications providers to keep records of
all voice and data communications of their citizens for
up to seven years.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2091211,00.html

Can Privacy Rights Survive?
When it comes to privacy, ever more intrusive
collection technologies are being rolled out,
such as online tracking mechanisms, spyware,
face recognition systems, location tracking
devices and even thermal imaging, a Senate
Commerce Committee panel was told today. And,
Jason Catlett, president of Junkbusters.com
and a visiting fellow at the Kennedy School
of Government at Harvard, said in a written
statement that "advances in 'cloaking'
technologies are always outstripped by advances
in collection technologies, both in capabilities
and degree of adoption."
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,,3_799411,00.html

Hackers Launch New E-Mail List For Security Bugs
Adding new fuel to an already fiery debate about the
best way to publicize information about security holes
in software, a new mailing list for hackers made its
debut Wednesday at the Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas.
According to its founders, three high-profile computer
security consultants and researchers, VulnWatch will
steer clear of the commercialism and bureaucracy that
they claim have degraded two of the most popular
computer security lists: Bugtraq and NTBugtraq.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167891.html

Wireless networks lure hackers
A new way to attack wireless networks underscores the
lack of security for PC owners using the airwaves to
connect their computers, said security experts speaking
at the Black Hat Briefings conference. On Thursday, Tim
Newsham, a researcher for security firm @Stake, presented
the details of  weaknesses in the password system of
wireless networks that could lead to a break in security
in less than 30 seconds. The flaw is the third to be
uncovered in the so-called Wired Equivalent Privacy, or
WEP, protocol that supposedly secures wireless networks.
"WEP is inherently insecure," said Newsham. "So using WEP
is essentially just throwing another barrier--and a small
one--in front of the attacker."  That barrier can be
overcome in 5 to 30 seconds in certain cases, he said.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5094057,00.html
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6554365.html
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-6554634-0.html

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