Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1607-997791880-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, 14 Aug 2001 05:26:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 22981 invoked by uid 510); 14 Aug 2001 12:25:02 -0000 Received: from n8.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.58) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 14 Aug 2001 12:25:02 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1607-997791880-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.55] by fk.egroups.com with NNFMP; 14 Aug 2001 12:24:40 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 14 Aug 2001 12:24:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 8414 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2001 12:24:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 14 Aug 2001 12:24:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta1 with SMTP; 14 Aug 2001 12:24:39 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id FAA25769 for iwar@onelist.com; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 05:24:39 -0700 Message-Id: <200108141224.FAA25769@big.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, 14 Aug 2001 05:24:39 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] Japan implicated in Kiwi hacking probe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Japan implicated in Kiwi hacking probe By John Leyden, The Register, 8/13/2001 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/20985.html A Japanese government agency has been implicated in attempts to hack into a medical research institute in New Zealand. Kiwi news service NZOOM cites security consultant Philip Whitmore from PricewaterhouseCoopers to support its allegations of state sponsored espionage against New Zealand's private sector. Whitmore was reportedly called in to advise an unnamed Kiwi medical institute which was being probed in hacking attacks believed to have originated from South East Asia. According to NZOOM, Whitmore attended an incident where a server containing sensitive information inside a Kiwi medical research institute was targeted in an unsuccessful attack which "originated from a Japanese government agency". Quite what form this attack took isn't explained in the article, which goes off on a tangent about the "US-China" cyberwar. The possibility that the "attack" may have been generated by a zombie agent on a Japanese government system or a server compromised by the Code Red worm isn't explored in the article. Anyone who has a firewall knows that probes and scans go on all the time, so leaping from a scan to "Japanese govt behind spy hacks" is quiet a leap. Last week, a Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection was set up in New Zealand and we're left wondering if the story is an attempt to give a sexy news hook. In the absence of more substantive evidence this would seem to be the case. ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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