Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1626-998163609-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, 18 Aug 2001 12:41:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 2397 invoked by uid 510); 18 Aug 2001 19:40:29 -0000 Received: from n29.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.79) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 18 Aug 2001 19:40:29 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1626-998163609-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.55] by b05.egroups.com with NNFMP; 18 Aug 2001 19:40:09 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 18 Aug 2001 19:40:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 97407 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2001 19:40:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 18 Aug 2001 19:40:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta2 with SMTP; 18 Aug 2001 19:40:06 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id MAA11465 for iwar@onelist.com; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 12:40:06 -0700 Message-Id: <200108181940.MAA11465@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: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 12:40:06 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [NewsBits] NewsBits - 08/17/01 (fwd) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Internet service banned in Vietnamese province as security threat Although Internet service is booming elsewhere in Vietnam, it was banned in a central province by local security officials who said it could threaten national security, official media reported Friday. The Phu Yen provincial post office offered public Internet service in the provincial capital in late 1998 and it flourished for six months, the Lao Dong (Labor) trade union newspaper reported. http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/078148.htm Pentagon Hides Behind Onion Wraps Onions may be the secret ingredient in protecting the Pentagon's classified information. During an afternoon presentation at the Usenix Security conference on Thursday, a researcher at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory described a technology known as "Onion Routing," which preserves anonymity by wrapping the identity of users in onion-like layers. "Public networks are vulnerable to traffic analysis. Packet headers identify recipients, and packet routes can be tracked," said Paul Syverson, who works at the NRL's Center for High Assurance Computer Systems. "Even encrypted data exposes the identity of the communicating parties." http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46126,00.html Schools help government develop `soldiers' to fight cyberterrorism The first group of cyberterrorism students reporting for ``duty'' this week at the University of Tulsa pulls together an eclectic mix of computer talent. The 14 students were hand-picked as part of the University of Tulsa's $5 million federally funded program to conduct cyberterrorism research and to help develop ``soldiers'' for a national ``cybercorps. ''The university was designated as a Center for Information Security by the National Security Agency. http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/046731.htm MS withdraws claim about XP's protection against viruses, hackers. A promotional Web site for Microsoft's soon-to- be-released Windows XP operating system said it would offer the same protection from viruses and hackers that major corporations use. Not so, said a Microsoft executive who had the reference removed from the Web site after The Associated Press questioned it. ``I'm sure that was an unintentional over exuberance there,'' said Mark Croft, manager for the new Windows product due in stores in October. http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/071744.htm We won't tell you what this patch does, but apply it NOW There's an extremely serious security problem with GroupWise that requires an immediate patch, but the problem is apparently so bad that Novell can't even bring itself to tell its users what it is. The Utah-based software firm has issued an email to its GroupWise 5.5 Enhancement Pack or GroupWise 6 users asking them that to apply the "Padlock Fix" to their servers immediately but isn't telling anybody why it's needed, lest hackers exploit the problem on unpatched systems. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/21115.html Broward Officials Want Students to Try Hacking Mock Election Broward County officials considering the $20 million purchase of a touchscreen voting system want students to try to tamper with the computers during a mock election. "One of the biggest concerns raised is whether there is the potential for computer abuse, and we really need to see how foolproof or tamperproof this equipment is," county commission Chairman John Rodstrom said. "If there is a problem, it will happen now or later. And some of these kids are pretty smart." http://ap.tbo.com/ap/florida/MGAJ6W8YGQC.html Florida Voting Systems Won't Be Kid-Tested http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/169164.html Yahoo! guilty! of! kidnapping! rape! torture! Yahoo! is to blame for incidences of kidnapping, rape and torture reckons some god-awful, blinkered and self-satisfied member of the American Family Association. Patrick Trueman has taken the recent example of a 15 year-old girl from Massachusetts who was kidnapped and then subjected to days of abuse to embark on a fire and brimstone crusade. The case itself is pretty shocking: the girl, who had run away from home, was abducted by a bloke and a woman and raped. She was then "lent" to another person who raped her, beat her and tied her up in a closet. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21100.html D.C. Wants to Catalog Its Kids Big Brother met little brother this week in the nation's capital when Washingtonians learned of a plan to keep digital fingerprint and photograph files of the city's schoolchildren. Officials in the District, where police are caught up in the unsuccessful hunt for missing intern Chandra Levy, claimed that the massive central database of children from 2 to 14 years old would help locate kidnapped or runaway tots. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46135,00.html ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get VeriSign's FREE GUIDE: "Securing Your Web Site for Business." Learn about using SSL for serious online security. Click Here! http://us.click.yahoo.com/KYe3qC/I56CAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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