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September 19, 2001

Hard-to-track Nimda worm may be peaking The outbreak of the Nimda
computer worm, which has spread rapidly across the Internet, appeared to
have peaked Wednesday for the powerful server machines that drive the
Web, but the number of infected PCs may never be known, computer
security experts said.  http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/025805.htm

Microsoft deflects charges of worm woes Microsoft refuted claims
Wednesday that the main Web site for its FrontPage software had been
infected by the Nimda virus, despite the antivirus software alarms set
off by viewing the site.  http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7231660.html

Nimda worm slows but hits high-profile sites
<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/630583.asp">http://www.msnbc.com/news/630583.asp>
Net security coalition issues Nimda warning
<a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7226813.html">http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7226813.html>
Nimda virus symptoms and cure
<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/631294.asp">http://www.msnbc.com/news/631294.asp>
Home PCs at most risk from Nimda
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5097175,00.html">http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5097175,00.html>
Security group: Beware of the Nimda worm
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5097154,00.html">http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5097154,00.html>
Nimda spreads--worse than Code Red?
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2813285,00.html">http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2813285,00.html>
Ashcroft: Nimda's not connected to attacks
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/newsbursts/0,7407,2813288,00.html">http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/newsbursts/0,7407,2813288,00.html>
Special Report: Nimda Worm Strikes
<a href="http://www.techtv.com/news/internet/story/0,24195,3348512,00.html">http://www.techtv.com/news/internet/story/0,24195,3348512,00.html>
Nimda hits broadband users
<a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2095663,00.html">http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2095663,00.html>
Nimda worm causes Internet slowdown
<a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2095586,00.html">http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2095586,00.html>
<a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2095594,00.html">http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2095594,00.html>
"Nimda" outbreak spreads worldwide
<a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-7225343-0.html">http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-7225343-0.html>
Nimda worms seen in China
<a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7226444.html">http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7226444.html>
Techies Battle Nimda Worm With Software, By Hand
<a href="http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170289.html">http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170289.html>
Nimda Worms Into 'Hundreds Of Thousands' Of Computers
<a href="http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170278.html">http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170278.html>

Hackers strike Middle Eastern sites Saying the U.S.  government hasn't
sufficiently responded to last week's terrorist attacks, a group of
vigilante hackers has taken matters into its own hands and defaced some
200 to 300 Middle Eastern government Web sites and those of Palestinian
Internet service providers.  The group says it plans to destroy Web
servers and Internet access in Afghanistan.  "This is the 21st century,
the world of technology belongs to us," says a 21-year-old computer
security worker from Ohio who uses the name "Hackah Jak." He is the
founder of the group of 60 computer professionals from around the world
who call themselves the Dispatchers.  http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001/09/19/hack-attack-launched.htm

Hackers lash out at Islamic Usenet group S'kiddies have taken out the
mail server used by the moderators of an Islamic Usenet group in the
latest of a serious of untargeted attacks by "vigilante" hackers
following last week's terrorist attacks on the US.  The admin of
soc.religion.islam told us that hackers threw a mail attack against its
server over the weekend which crashed the old machine it used.  "The
email originated as a flood attack against the newsgroup from a machine
at a Canadian ISP, but since the newsgroup [soc.culture.islam] is
moderated it was converted into a mail bomb by their NNTP server," an
admin at the hosting site told us.  http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/21752.html

ITV Digital falls prey to smartcard piracy Customers are illegally
watching premier digital channels with illicit smartcards.  The head of
ITV Digital has admitted that its digital terrestrial television service
is suffering from piracy, with customers dodging monthly subscription
charges by using illicit smartcards.  http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2095655,00.html

FBI Obtains Terrorist Emails New evidence suggests those behind last
week's attacks used the Web to coordinate their efforts.  There is new
evidence suggesting the terrorists who carried out last week's attacks
in New York and Washington used the World Wide Web to help coordinate
their deadly efforts.  "They used the Internet and they used it well,"
an FBI official said of the 19 men who hijacked four passenger airliners
last Tuesday, steering three of them into the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon.  http://www.techtv.com/news/story/0,24195,3348572,00.html

Internet scam artists see a profit in U.S.  attacks Internet fraudsters
are profiting from last week's attacks on the United States, playing on
public sympathy to rake in ``grubby money'' around the globe. 
Investigators say a number of Web sites purporting to represent
legitimate charities have sprung up to lure unwitting donors into
handing over credit card details.  http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/015113.htm
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/09/19/gen.appeal.fraud/index.html">http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/09/19/gen.appeal.fraud/index.html>

NIPC warns of possible DDoS attacks The National Infrastructure
Protection Center, the FBI's cybersecurity agency, issued an advisory
Tuesday warning against the possibility of increased distributed
denial-of-service attacks coming as a result of the last week's
terrorist attacks against targets in New York and near Washington, D.C. 
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/09/19/nipc.warning.idg/index.html">http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/09/19/nipc.warning.idg/index.html>

Bush Bill Rewrites Spy Laws The Bush administration will ask for more
power to eavesdrop on phone calls, the Internet and voicemail messages,
according to an outline of a bill obtained by Wired News.  In response
to last week's catastrophic terrorist attacks, President Bush plans to
ask Congress to approve far-reaching legislation that rewrites U.S. 
laws dealing with electronic surveillance, immigration and support for
terrorists.  http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46953,00.html

The Terrorists Are Winning the Cyber War In the Internet Age, when
communications speed across national boundaries in nanoseconds,
terrorist groups are winning the cyberspace battle, say intelligence and
security experts.  Terrorists hide their communications with encryption
software.  They set up Web sites to help raise money for their
operations.  Computer hackers break into U.S.  government networks to
research possible targets.  http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000075202sep19.story

Firms may have trampled privacy rules post-attack Many companies, ISPs
gave info to law enforcement Several Internet service providers and
other U.S.  companies breached their own policies on protecting clients'
privacy in response to the attacks on the United States, an expert on
the issue said.  http://www.msnbc.com/news/631223.asp

Fed Court Staffs to Be Monitored Like millions of other American
workers, federal judges and their staffs should have some monitoring of
their Internet activities, judicial leaders said Wednesday.  Monitoring
plans had unsettled some judges, who complained of possible illegal
snooping by administrators in Washington.  The Judicial Conference,
which oversees courts, approved a compromise policy that would allow
some tracking of Internet surfing but no surveillance of e-mail. 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46974,00.html">http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46974,00.html>
<a href="http://news.lycos.com/news/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=246373">http://news.lycos.com/news/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=246373>
<a href="http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/004958.htm">http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/004958.htm>
<a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7230874.html">http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7230874.html>
<a href="http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170288.html">http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170288.html>
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001/09/19/judges-net-monitoring.htm">http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001/09/19/judges-net-monitoring.htm>

A 'Tarpit' That Traps Worms Network administrators now have a hacking
tool that can help them strike back at malicious attackers.  "LaBrea" is
a free, open-source tool that deters worms and other hack attacks by
transforming unused network resources into decoy-computers that appear
and act just like normal machines on a network.  But when malicious
hackers or mindless worms such as Nimda or Code Red attempt to connect
with a LaBrea -equipped system, they get sucked into a virtual tarpit
that grabs their computer's connection -- and doesn't release it. 
<a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,46964,00.html">http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,46964,00.html>
[FC - We have been doing this for several years... but they have great PR...]

AOL anti-Muslim chat room suit gets new attention A discrimination
lawsuit alleging that America Online allowed harassment of Muslims in
chat rooms got little attention when it was filed last month.  Now, the
case may become a national touchstone as the Net has quickly become a
hub for anti-Islamic hate talk and torment after the terrorist attacks
last week.  In the suit filed Aug.  30, Saad Noah, 43, of Crest Hill,
Ill., charged that AOL allowed chat room users to make anti- Muslim
statements in its Islam-related chat rooms, even though monitors
normally step in when notified and warn members that abusive behavior
violates AOL's rules.  "Allah must die" and "All muslims and jews are
terrorist" were among the nearly 100 statements detailed in Noah's suit. 
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001/09/19/aol-chat-room.htm">http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001/09/19/aol-chat-room.htm>

Tech Firms Join Fight Against Terrorism The use of existing and emerging
technologies is essential to the fight against terrorism, analysts say. 
Counter-terrorism is now one of the nation's top priorities, President
Bush said last week.  The government has already allocated billions of
dollars to the cause, and US agencies such as the CIA and the FBI are
expected to bulk up their staffs and resources in the near future.  http://www.techtv.com/news/culture/story/0,24195,3348383,00.html

Americans Still Guard Telephone, E-mail Privacy - Study Last week's
terrorist attacks have prompted a few Americans to say they are more
willing to trade some personal privacy for security, according to a new
study.  However, while some respondents told the Pew Research Center
they generally supported the concept of sacrificing some civil liberties
in order to try to curb terrorism, when asked specifically about
increased government monitoring of personal telephone calls or e-mails,
most balked.  http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170291.html

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