Re: [iwar] [NewsBits] NewsBits - 07/31/01 (fwd)China hearing

From: e.r. (fastflyer28@yahoo.com)
Date: 2001-08-03 09:01:34

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Today there was a hearing on US-China relations-actually a hearing at
which members of a commission,  some of whom are the best China
Scholors in the nation spoke before a Senate Panel- and IWAR was
discussed a great deal. This was not a lame brained bunch of "Made up
specialists" that Bush is using these days.  The guys are the real
deal.

The most important comment  came when one of them mentioned the fact
that the Chinese Government is encourging a "Take Home War".  Use your
PC's, or take your laptops home and hack-for those who have them.  The
specific language is consistant with Chinese thinking and I saw
something in a Bejing paper-in Chinese that said -"let the 10, 000
flowers bloom".  10,000 is a number with cultural significance that
boils down to-let all who have PC's , or a laptop go home and hack. 
They have done some of it in an organized manner with PLA trained IWAR
troops.  Michael Pillsbury-major china scholor- mentioned this and was
on the commission, all of whom were at today's hearing.  It will most
likely be rebroadcast on CSPAN 3. Take a look.




--- Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> wrote:
> July 31, 2001
> 
> DoD Poised to Defend Against 'Code Red' Virus
> DoD is poised to defend department computer networks
> from a revival of the Code Red "worm" virus, DoD
> officials said July 31. "Our Joint Task Force for
> Computer Network Operations is monitoring all of
> our networks very closely," Pentagon spokesman
> Rear Adm. Craig Quigley said. The Code Red virus
> is likely to start spreading again on July 31 at
> 8 p.m. Eastern time, said officials at the National
> Infrastructure Protection Center. The virus has
> mutated, so it may be even more dangerous. This
> spread has the potential to disrupt business and
> personal use of the Internet for applications such
> as electronic commerce, e-mail and entertainment,
> FBI officials said.
> http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jul2001/n07312001_200107312.html
> 
> Code Red worm has cost $1.2 billion so far - study
> http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/1378216l.htm
> 
> Patches seem to keep Code Red cool
> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6734294.html
> Microsoft takes heat for Code Red
> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6730674.html
> 
> Global alert for new round of Code Red
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5094917,00.html
> http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svtop/worm073101.htm
> 
> FACTBOX-Code Red worm is latest Internet scare
> http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/1378378l.htm
> FAQ: The Code Red threat
> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6733503.html
> 
> Internet's Cons Are Pros Unwary, lose $3B a year
> The dot-com stock boom has gone bust, but dot-cons are
> exploding on the Internet, with unsuspecting consumers
> defrauded to the tune of $3 billion a year. Online
> auction hustles, stock schemes, quack health cures,
> identity theft, investment ripoffs and credit card
> swindles are proliferating like superviruses despite
> enforcement efforts by a host of government agencies.
> "The Internet provides great opportunities for quick
> and convenient shopping, but it also provides a
> tremendous opportunity for crooks," said city Consumer
> Affairs Commissioner Jane Hoffman. She noted that New
> York State has the fourth-largest number of reported
> victims after California, Texas and Florida.
>
http://www.nydailynews.com/today/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-120284.asp
> 
> Hackers to the honey
> Hackers surround the Honeynet like bees around a honey
> pot. A decoy computer network set up to record every
> attempt to crack it open and subvert it has revealed
> just how active and determined malicious hackers have
> become. Statistics gathered by the network show that
> computers connected to the web are scanned for
> weaknesses up to14 times per day and that, on average,
> an attempt will be made to break into a net-connected
> computer every three days.
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1464000/1464959.stm
> 


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