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February 5, 2002

Computer Hacker Sentenced to 21 Months
A computer hacker from Mission Viejo was sentenced
to 21 months in federal prison Monday for breaking
into high-security systems at NASA and several
universities and for using stolen credit card numbers
to obtain money and merchandise over the Internet.
Jason Allen Diekman, 21, hacked his way into some
systems while out on bail after his first wave of
computer break-ins.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-000009016feb05.story
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174238.html
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/02/05/hacker-sentenced.htm
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1128962

Teen protester charged with posting weapons information online
One of the demonstrators arrested during the World
Economic Forum which ended Monday is accused of
posting information about making weapons of mass
destruction on the Internet. Sherman Austin was
ordered detained Monday pending a Thursday bail
hearing. Austin, 18, of Sherman Oaks, Calif.,
was arrested during a demonstration Saturday on
city charges of disorderly conduct and unlawful
assembly.
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/240544p-2288701c.html

Economic Forum site crashes; groups take credit
The Web site of the World Economic Forum crashed
Friday, and cyber-activists claimed they took it
down in a "virtual sit-in." Forum officials said
they were trying to determine what brought the
site down. They originally attributed the failure
to "overuse," but messages posted on a Web site
called Indymedia.org. took credit for the crash.
Anti-globalization groups urging Internet users
to join the cyberattacks identified themselves
as Electronic Disturbance Theater, Electronic
Civil Disobedience and the Federation of Random
Action.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/02/04/virtual-sit-in.htm
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/240777p-2289814c.html

Millions at risk from chat flaws
An Irish security consultant published details this
weekend of two software bugs in a popular chat program
--bugs that could be used to install malicious programs
on a victim's computer. The flaws make users of mIRC--
a common Windows program that lets people chat in real
time over a network of "Internet relay chat" servers
--susceptible to attack if they connect to a compromised
server, said James Martin, the independent security
consultant who found one of the flaws.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-830081.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-829887.html

Cybersecurity Research Vote Expected Thursday
Legislation aimed at strengthening U.S. cyberdefenses
by boosting research funding is scheduled for a vote
Thursday in the full U.S. House of Representatives.
Sponsored by House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood
Boehlert, R-N.Y., the Cyber Security Research and
Development Act would earmark roughly $900 million
to be divvied up between the National Science
Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) for use in
cybersecurity research efforts.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174237.html

Bush Eyeballs Heavy Tech Spending
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50223,00.html

State, Silicon Valley win, lose under plan
With its anti-terrorism emphasis, the president's
2003 budget plan would directly benefit Silicon Valley
and California but at a cost to transportation and
community development funding. Major increases in
spending for high-tech research, such as cyber security
and developing countermeasures to biological attacks,
would boost Silicon Valley's biotech and computing
industries.
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/front/docs/california05.htm

NIPC head: Communication key and must be improved
Though communication between the government and
private sector in the area of cybersecurity has
been good, the U.S. National Infrastructure
Protection Center (NIPC) has areas in which it
can improve, according to NIPC director Ronald
Dick, whose keynote speech kicked off the
CyberCrime 2002 conference here on Sunday.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/05/nipc.communication.idg/index.html

Pentagon official emphasizes 'creative approach' to defense
The U.S. military must embrace a "more entrepreneurial,
more creative approach" to acquiring the tools necessary
to combat enemies abroad and to protect the homeland,
the Defense Department's director of force transformation
told reporters Tuesday. Retired Adm. Arthur Cebrowski,
who was appointed to the newly created office last
October, explained that the rapid proliferation of
information technology has made the future of warfare
much harder to predict.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0202/020502td1.htm

U.S.: Critical Government Computers Under Threat
Analysts are less worried about the vulnerability
risks from the average hacker than about international
espionage and fraud on a global scale. Government
computers responsible for doling out Social Security,
tax refunds and other payments were found to have
significant security flaws, a government agency
reported on Monday, leaving the systems vulnerable
to hackers, cyber-terrorists and internal fraud.
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/16171.html

Size matters in fending off hacker attacks.
When a small Internet service provider called Cloud
Nine Communications Ltd. crashed to earth, it blamed
hackers for overwhelming its networks with bogus
traffic. The blitz cut short Cloud Nine's six-year
existence and underscored the mounting costs of
protecting online businesses against increasingly
sophisticated attackers.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/066047.htm
http://www.techtv.com/news/security/story/0,24195,3370593,00.html
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/01/hack.attack.reut/index.html

Spammer appeals to state court
An alleged spammer is appealing its case to the
California Supreme Court a month after an appeals
court upheld the state's anti-spam law, ruling that
it does not violate the U.S. Constitution. Ira Rothken,
attorney for Friendfinder and Conru Interactive, said
he filed a brief Tuesday asking the state supreme
court to review the ruling.
http://zdnet.com.com/2110-1104-829978.html
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174252.html

Navy taps rear admiral to head new NMCI office.
The Navy will establish a new program office to serve
as a central point of authority for the Navy-Marine
Corps Intranet. Rear Adm. Charles L. Munns will manage
the office; Marine Corps Col. Robert Logan will be his
deputy. The office is scheduled to open Feb. 11, but
a Navy spokesman said it was unclear when Munns would
assume his post.
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/17924-1.html

Outside Hackers vs. the Enemy Within: Who's Worse?
SecurityFocus incident analyst Ryan Russell told
NewsFactor that far more internal attacks go
unreported because companies are better able
to keep them quiet. The 2001 Computer Crime
and Security Survey from the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and the Computer Security Institute
makes it clear that cybercrime is on the rise.
But for the first time, according to survey
respondents, incidents precipitated by outside
hackers outnumbered those originated by internal
threats.
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/16157.html

Who=92s benefiting from Net attacks?
Selling security software may be as close as it comes
to a recession-proof business in the computer industry
these days. Software makers have their hopes set that
the gravy train keeps running. Security software
companies including Symantec, Network Associates
and SonicWall are enjoying a boom time in the middle
of an overall economic slump. They're selling more
packages for locking down networks and Web sites
thanks to increased worries among big companies
and consumers alike about sophisticated threats
such as the Nimda worm and the SirCam and Code
Red viruses, along with new dangers.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-829686.html
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2103776,00.html
http://news.com.com/2009-1001-829889.html

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