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September 20, 2001

FBI pursuing clues to terrorists on Internet and in e-mail Attempts by
terrorists to cover their tracks in cyberspace as they planned last
week's attacks may have backfired because they accessed the Internet
from computers in public libraries, computer forensic experts said
Tuesday.  At the behest of the FBI, a federal grand jury ordered two
libraries in Broward County, Florida, on Tuesday to turn over electronic
files from their computers. 
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/hottopics/attack/fbinet092001.htm

Terrorists Leave Paperless Trail Federal agents retracing the steps of
the 19 hijackers suspected in last week's attacks are finding a digital
trail that leads from one Internet connection to another.  According to
various media reports, at least some of them went online to plan the
attacks, purchase airplane tickets, and coordinate their moves. 
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46991,00.html
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001/09/20/attacks-cybertrail.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/57/21790.html

Tech-Savvy Terrorists Experts say prime suspect Osama bin Laden has the
tech know-how to have pulled off last week's coordinated strikes.  As US
law enforcement officials continue to hunt for the terrorists behind
last week's attacks, security experts say that Osama bin Laden, the
government's prime suspect, likely has access to enough sophisticated
technology to have pulled off the coordinated strikes against the World
Trade Center and Pentagon. 
http://www.techtv.com/news/story/0,24195,3348731,00.html

FBI, SEC on hunt for attack-related trading America's top markets
regulator said Thursday that several U.S.  agencies, led by the FBI,
were investigating whether those behind last week's attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon tried to turn a grisly profit by playing
the markets.  http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/007092.htm

FBI Investigates Web Domains Officials probe suspicious domains such as
"www.worldtowerattack.com" registered before last week's terror attacks. 
Federal investigators are reviewing more than 20 unusual domain names
for possible clues in last week's attack on New York's World Trade
Center, TechTV has confirmed. 
http://www.techtv.com/news/story/0,24195,3348936,00.html - - - - - - - -
Nimba Virus Called More Potent Than Predecessors A rogue computer
program has been copying itself from computer to computer since Tuesday
morning, causing slowdowns for many Internet users as it grabs network
bandwidth and individual computers' system resources. 
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170300.html

Microsoft 'admits' spreading Nimda worm
http://www.theinquirer.net/200901203.htm Microsoft software targeted
again in latest worm attack
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/002571.htm

Expert: Worm-spreading server owners are 'criminal'
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/newsbursts/0,7407,2813621,00.html
Nimda spreads its venom
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/specialreport/0,12737,6021501,00.html Nimda
computer virus rampant in Asia
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2095697,00.html Nimda falls into
retreat as firms fight back
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/1504638l.htm
Security firm caught out by Nimda
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/21762.html Nimda winds down;
companies recover http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7239193.html
Nimda worm damage assessed
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-7225343-0.html States are reeling
from Nimda infections
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/17148-1.html Nimda Worm Having
'Slight' Effect On Web Performance
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170345.html WinZip Security May Spare
Popular Utility From New Worm
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170333.html 'Nimda' - Norwegian For
'Nasty' http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170324.html Nimda worm runs
riot on IT sites http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/21772.html
Viruses are getting faster, tougher
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/09/20/faster.virus.idg/index.html

European Cyber-Crime Treaty Clears Penultimate Hurdle Key
representatives for the Council of Europe on Wednesday signed off on the
so-called Convention on Cyber-crime, a global treaty to harmonize laws
against crime committed via the Internet.  The Council of Europe's
Deputy Ministers approved the treaty without alteration, clearing the
way for formal adoption by the Foreign Affairs Ministers at their
meeting in Strasbourg on Nov.  8. 
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170341.html

Court workers curbed on net use The Judicial Conference of the United
States has cracked down on federal court employees' personal use of a
nationwide court data com- munications network.  The "model appropriate
use policy" approved Sept.  19 by the Judicial Conference bans court
employees from using their office computers to access such file- sharing
services as Napster and Gnutella. 
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0917/web-use-09-20-01.asp

Surge of New Technologies Erodes U.S.  Edge in Spying For decades, the
United States used its technical expertise to gather electronic signals
and eavesdrop on the intimate conversations of its adversaries,
including Kremlin leaders in their limousines.  Fleets of satellites
blanketed the globe, overhearing all manner of signals, messages and
conversations, day and night.  (NY Times article, free registration
required) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/national/20SPY.html

After the attack: Privacy vs.  security The Sept.  11 attacks on the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon provoke a dramatic shift in the
debate over computer and Internet privacy.  Before, it was a tug of war
between protectors of civil liberties on one side and government
intelligence gatherers on the other.  Now, it's an emotional weighing of
personal rights vs.  national security. 
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/specialreport/0,12737,6021498,00.html

Civil Liberties Groups Rally Against Anti-Terrorism Law A broad and
politically diverse coalition of public interest groups today urged
Congress not to blindly approve a sweeping new anti- terrorism law
proposed by the Justice Department in the wake of last Tuesday's
terrorist attacks.  http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170335.html

Americans want Uncryption Three in four Americans favour tough anti-
encryption laws, in the wake of last week's terrorist atrocities, a
survey finds.  Seventy-two per cent believe anti-encryption laws will be
"somewhat" or "very" helpful in combating terrorism, according to the
survey, conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates. 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/21791.html

Watching You, Watching Me In the wake of last week's terrorist attacks
in New York and Washington, Americans are now vaguely aware of the fact
that their lives are going to change as more stringent security measures
are put in place to try to prevent further carnage.  Daily life as we
know it is probably going to change, not only at the airport but in the
workplace and in mass transit. 
http://www.forbes.com/2001/09/19/0919securetech.html

Is there a plan to DoS defacement sites off the Internet? Is there a
co-ordinated attempt taking place to force defacement archives off the
Internet? After Safemode.org told us that a distributed denial of
service attack against it had caused its ISP to drop it, the question
needs to be asked.  The attack against Safemode.org, as described to us
by its admin and co-founder Mystakill, occurred at the same time as
attacks against Alldas.de, which also resulted in that site becoming
unavailable.  There are some subtle differences in the mode of attack
though.  http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/21782.html

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