[iwar] [NewsBits] NewsBits - 06/28/02 (fwd)

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[FC - Every few hundred issues I remind the forum that Deputy Ron Levine
does this news summary and publishes it under NewsBytes].

June 28, 2002

Four Bay Area cities reported suspicious traffic on Web sites
Four Bay Area cities received enough hits on their
Web sites from Middle East countries last fall that
some were shut down and cleansed of potentially
sensitive information, the Mercury News has
learned. The discoveries took on new urgency in
January when computers linked to Al-Qaida hide-
outs in Kabul, Afghanistan, were discovered to
have been used to visit Web sites with information
on digital switches controlling key elements of
U.S. infrastructure, such as electrical grids,
water systems and communication networks.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3560320.htm

Tip from Mtn. View sparked online terror probe
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3554398.htm
Related Documents and Resources On The Web
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50712-2002Jun26.html

Soon al-Qaeda will kill you on the Internet
The Business Software Alliance (BSA), known for
kicking doors with dogs and brownshirts to sniff
out expired licenses and for extorting vast sums
of cash from non-compliant victims even more
frightened of a visit from that federal Copyright
-911 force also known as the FBI, has taken it
upon itself to cobble up a survey which, in the
addled minds of the mainstream press, indicates
that al-Qaeda has obtained the weapons of mass,
digital destruction, and is poised to use them.
Western Europe and North America will be razed
by a holy onslaught of SYN floods and VB worms
and buffer overflows. All Christendom will be
laid waste.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25938.html

FBI nets broadband hackers
Police swoop on $200,000 bandwidth thieves. FBI
agents and US police have raided several homes
in Toledo and seized computer equipment believed
to belong to part of a hacker ring. Houses in
Sylvania Township, Perrysburg and Oregon were
searched following a four-month investigation
into the alleged $200,000 theft of broadband
access from the Buckeye Cablesystem network.
Police maintain that the hackers altered the
cable firm's equipment, giving them enhanced
access to its Buckeye Express broadband service.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1133080

Hacking fears delay tax email service
Taxpayers left with snail mail option only. The
Inland Revenue has stalled plans to introduce an
email service for taxpayers because of security
fears. The department had planned a national email
service, and has already installed more than =A3200m
worth of computers. But, according to an inter-
office memo, the taxman fears that hackers could
intercept emails or infiltrate the network and
masquerade as Nick Montagu, the department's
chairman, for the purposes of reading and
sending emails.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1133056

Music industry swamps swap networks with phony files
Major record labels have launched an aggressive
new guerrilla assault on the underground music
networks, flooding online swapping services with
bogus copies of popular songs. The online music
sites know they're under attack. Darrell Smith,
chief technical officer of  StreamCast Networks,
parent of the popular file-swapping service
Morpheus, said he first noticed the practice
about a year ago, but chalked it up to
``rogue teenage hackers just being obnoxious.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3560365.htm

Spain's new e-commerce law worries privacy advocates
Campaign against the Law on Services for the
Information Society. Opponents of Spain's new
e-commerce law - which requires Internet service
providers to keep tabs on users - vowed Friday to
challenge it in court as a violation of constitutional
rights. But the head of a national Internet users
association applauded the protections it offers
for online consumers. The Law on Services for the
Information Society is one of the first to comply
with a European Union directive on regulating the
Internet in the 15 member countries.
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/450481p-3603787c.html

China targets unlicensed cyber-cafes
China has threatened the operators of unlicensed
Internet bars with criminal prosecution as part
of a safety crackdown launched after a fire at an
Internet cafe in Beijing killed 25 customers, state
media reported Saturday. From July 1 to August 31,
unlicensed cyber cafes will be shut down and the
owners prosecuted, Xinhua News Agency quoting
Ministry of Culture official Liu Yuzhu as saying.
No new Internet bars will be allowed to open
during that period, the report added.
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/451372p-3611890c.html

Ballmer to China: 'Steal all the software you want, so long as it's ours'
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has signed a memorandum
of understanding with China's State Development
Planning Commission (SDPC) worth $750 million over
three years, involving both software and services,
Reuters reports. "We want the Chinese industry to
grow. The success of Microsoft in every market,
including China's, is highly dependent upon the
growth of local industry. What's good for the
local industry in every country is good for
Microsoft," the wire service quotes him as
saying.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25932.html

Should bosses read our email? EU asks citizens
'What's he on about?' we wondered when EDS
Chief Security and Privacy exec Paul Clark lashed
out over European privacy legislation in a release
on Wednesday. "EDS welcomes the recognition
that privacy is a business as well as a legislative
issue,"  he'd apparently told a meeting of privacy
officers in Stuttgart last week: "However, political
bodies should not use the business community as
its 'foot soldiers' to impose their views on privacy
standards on the rest of the world. Any involvement
in commercial contracts potentially could increase
the bureaucracy and complexity of compliance."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25944.html

In-Q-Tel, Investing In Intrigue
CIA Unit Scours Country For Useful Technologies
Like "Q," the gadget-maker who keeps James
Bond perpetually ensconced in the latest high-tech
gear, Gilman Louie is looking for technologies and
ideas to give American spies an edge. Louie is the
founding chief executive of In-Q-Tel, the venture
capital unit of the CIA that -- no kidding -- named
itself after the movie character. The group, created
in 1999, has made about a dozen investments in
technologies that could potentially be used in
information gathering and analysis of America's
enemies.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5577-2002Jun30.html

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