[iwar] [NewsBits] NewsBits - 09/24/01 (fwd)

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Date: 2001-09-24 18:39:14
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September 24, 2001

New 'war vote' Virus deletes Computer files Security experts on Monday
warned of a brand new virus masquerading as a program that will allow
people to vote whether the United States should go to war over the
deadly Sept.  11 hijacker attacks, but which deletes computer files
instead. 
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/1513741l.htm
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7285953.html
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5097375,00.html
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001/09/24/war-vote-virus.htm

Nimda worm keeps going and going=85 The multifaceted Nimda worm
continued to spread over the weekend, hitting North America on average
five times harder than any other region.  Antivirus company Trend
Micro's World Virus Tracking Center reported that 120,000 new infections
were detected worldwide in a 24-hour period ending noon Monday PDT,
bringing the total number of copies of the Nimda worm found by Trend
Micro to 1.3 million. 
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5097369,00.html

Nimda still a global threat
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7285499.html
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2001/0924/web-nimda-09-24-01.asp
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170438.html

IT could play big at security office The Office for Homeland Security,
which President Bush announced last week in his speech to a joint
session of Congress, could rely heavily on information technology to
maintain domestic security, according to federal IT experts. 
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0924/news-home-09-24-01.asp

Homeland security plan could resemble year 2000 effort. 
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/17187-1.html

Lawmakers Grill Justice Dept.  On Anti-Terrorism Proposal The Chairman
of the House Judiciary Committee today announced that he would postpone
a planned vote on a sweeping new anti-terrorism proposal so that members
of his committee could have more time to reconcile their concerns over
the legislation, which would rewrite several federal rules governing
electronic surveillance.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170446.html

Civil Libertarians Seek To Weaken 'Anti-Terrorism' Bill
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170435.html
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/09/24/civil.liberties.idg/index.html
Why Liberty Suffers in Wartime
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,47051,00.html

Panel releases guidelines for battling terrorism A congressionally
mandated panel that has the ear of the Bush administration and key
lawmakers detailed its anti-terrorism recommendations on Monday,
offering its thoughts on the use of the military in response to
terrorist threats, border security, cybersecurity and the national
health and medical networks. 
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0901/092401td1.htm

FBI Agents Ill-Equipped to Predict Terror Acts The FBI in the past
decade has tripled its spending to stop terrorism, quintupled the number
of intelligence gatherers and revamped its bureaucracy to share
information about terrorists across the government.  None of it was
enough to stop the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S.  history. 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14081-2001Sep23.html

Terrorist Leader Encrypted Messages Osama bin Laden used encryption
technology to thwart National Security Agency intelligence efforts,
experts say.  There was a time when the US government's National
Security Agency could eavesdrop on Osama bin Laden's every word.  But
the agency's surveillance all but stopped a few years ago when the
terrorist leader started communicating through encrypted emails. 
http://www.techtv.com/news/culture/story/0,24195,3349203,00.html

Taliban Threatens U.N.  Techies The Taliban have threatened to execute
any U.N.  worker who uses computers and communications equipment in
Afghanistan, forcing a near halt to the remaining relief work in the
country, U.N.  officials said Monday.  The militia raided U.N.  offices
in Kabul, the capital, and Kandahar, where the Taliban leadership is
based, during the weekend and sealed their satellite telephones,
walkie-talkies, computers and vehicles to bar them from use, according
to U.N.  spokeswoman Stephanie Bunker. 
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,47074,00.html

Serbia: Law on Computer Crimes to Be Drafted The Federal Ministry of
Internal Affairs has confirmed that petitions to punish those who have
been abusing numbers of other people's credit cards and invading Western
European and American web sites, considering it a patriotic act, have
started to come from abroad. 
http://www.antionline.com/showthread.php?threadid=3D113823

Laid-off techies swiping goods on way out When a Cleveland-based
business-to-business start-up failed several months ago, executives
planned to follow a well-paved dot-com death pattern: Lay off workers,
sell assets and reimburse creditors.  Employees had a different plan. 
Between the layoffs and the asset auction, they stole $35,000 worth of
laptops, handheld computers, monitors and laser printers. 
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-7285664.html

Linux Experts Wine Over Virus There was much mocking in the Linux camp
this weekend when it was discovered that the Sir Cam virus will run
under the Open Source operating system - but only under the Wine Windows
emulator.  Although Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) is not technically a
Windows emulator for Linux, it is a compatibility layer allowing Windows
binaries to run on the Linux OS.  http://www.vnunet.com/News/1125594

Air Force techs acted fast to save systems The quick thinking of systems
workers at the Air Force Pentagon Communications Agency=92s command and
control directorate may have saved computers in the National Military
Command Center from crashing following the terrorist attack Sept.  11. 
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/17188-1.html

IT replacement gear streams into Pentagon The Defense Department is
continuing to assess and rebuild its information technology
infrastructure following the Sept.  11 attack on the Pentagon.  DOD
officials ordered more than 1,000 proprietary Secured Desktop Gateway
communications enclosures for immediate delivery from Holocom Networks. 
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0924/news-pentagon-09-24-01.asp

Brits want ID cards, not worried about privacy
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/21849.html

Terrorist tracking center gets cracking The foreign terrorist asset
tracking center at the Treasury Department is up and running, Treasury
Secretary Paul O=92Neill said today.  The center identifies and
investigates the financial infrastructure of international terrorist
networks.  President George W.  Bush today signed an executive order
that freezes U.S.  assets of 27 entities, including what he called
terrorist organizations and individual terrorist leaders. 
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/17189-1.html

In terror war, high-tech military tools could hunt low-tech foes Spy
satellites.  Drones.  Motion sensors.  Smart bombs.  These are some of
the high-tech weapons the U.S.  military may wield in the gathering
campaign against terrorism.  The shadowy National Security Agency is
already believed to be directing spy satellites to photograph and listen
to suspects' camps, while the agency's supercomputers search recordings
for clues to militants' identities and whereabouts. 
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/038656.htm

Cyberterrorists: our invisible enemies As Attorney General John Ashcroft
fielded reporters' questions last Tuesday about the attack on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon, one journalist asked if a new computer
worm, discovered only hours earlier, was in any way related to the
terrorist strikes.  It was not, Ashcroft assured the nation --or at
least, there was as yet no evidence linking it to Osama bin Laden and
his ilk. 
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2814190,00.html

Hacker's changes to Yahoo articles highlight quiet Web danger.  The
dangers of Internet worms and viruses are well known, but security
experts are warning of a more pernicious and potentially more damaging
kind of attack -- the manipulation of content on trusted Web sites. 
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/070395.htm


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