[iwar] [NewsBits] NewsBits - 04/12/02 (fwd)

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April 12, 2002

Trade-Secret Case Is Expanded
A new federal indictment handed up here today says
three Chinese citizens accused of stealing trade
secrets from Lucent Technologies also victimized
four other companies. Two of the three men are
scientists who worked at Lucent's headquarters
in Murray Hill, N.J. The three now face 24 counts,
including the original conspiracy charge, 14 counts
of possessing trade secrets and 9 counts of wire fraud.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/12/technology/12LUCE.html
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-881597.html
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175855.html
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/04/12/lucent-trade-secrets.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/24825.html

Murdoch company 'leaked rival's TV codes'
A News Corporation whistleblower has claimed
that NDS, a software subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's
pay television empire, directed an employee to leak
secret codes belonging to its closest rival to
internet pirates. Oliver Kommerling, a software
security consultant, on Thursday said in a written
deposition to a California court that Chris
Tarnovsky, an NDS employee on the West Coast,
arranged for Canal Plus Technologies' codes -
enabling smart cards in pay-TV boxes - to be
published on the internet.
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3DEBE1XZC

Another Computing Platform Gets Its First Virus
SAPvir, the first virus to infect programs and
reports used by the high-end SAP R/3 business
information system, was posted to an online virus
library this week. Experts said the proof-of-concept
code is the latest effort by virus writers to target
"exotic" computing platforms. The 24-line program,
written in SAP's Advanced Business Application
Programming (ABAP) language, is designed to spread
to other programs on the local SAP system but does
not appear to be destructive or network-aware,
according to a preliminary analysis of the code
by Jochen Hein, an independent SAP consultant
based in Germany.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175855.html

Anti-spam law upheld in Calif. court
The California Supreme Court has upheld the
constitutionality of its state anti-spam law after a
long-running legal dispute, saying that the law does
not violate U.S. interstate commerce laws. In 1999,
California resident Mark Ferguson sued interactive
services companies FriendFinder and Conru Interactive,
alleging that they had sent him and others unsolicited
e-mail advertisements that were deceptive, misleading
and in violation of state law.
http://zdnet.com.com/2110-1105-881550.html
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175859.html

ICANN warns of domain-dispute swindle
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers is warning of a swindle by an organization
claiming to be an approved domain-name dispute
solver. ICANN, the organization that oversees
the Internet's addressing system, said this week
that it has received many reports of domain name
registrants receiving mailings from an entity
calling itself XChange Dispute Resolution and
claiming to be an ICANN authorized arbitrator
in domain name dispute cases, which it is not.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/04/12/domain.fraud.idg/index.html

Databases to flag suspected terrorists
Federal authorities plan to share with state and
local police information on tens of thousands of
suspected terrorists to try to improve homeland
defense, Justice Department officials say. Justice
officials, who after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks
were criticized by some local authorities for not
sharing enough information about potential threats,
say more than 100,000 suspects' names will be
entered into three computer databases. Because
of the varying quality of the information, it
is unlikely that all of the suspects will wind
up in each database.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/04/12/terrorist-databases.htm

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