Return-Path: <sentto-279987-5122-1028671674-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 06 Aug 2002 15:09:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 24950 invoked by uid 510); 6 Aug 2002 22:06:41 -0000 Received: from n2.grp.scd.yahoo.com (66.218.66.75) by all.net with SMTP; 6 Aug 2002 22:06:41 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-5122-1028671674-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.67.193] by n2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 06 Aug 2002 22:07:54 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_7_4); 6 Aug 2002 22:07:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 12949 invoked from network); 6 Aug 2002 22:07:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 6 Aug 2002 22:07:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.72.152) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Aug 2002 22:07:54 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g76M83Q13527; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 15:08:03 -0700 Message-Id: <200208062208.g76M83Q13527@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 15:08:03 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [iwar] Italian police arrest 14 in hacker probe (fwd) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.2 required=5.0 tests=RISK_FREE,FREE_MONEY,DIFFERENT_REPLY_TO version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: *** Italian police arrest 14 in hacker probe By Matthew Broersma Special to CNET News.com August 2, 2002, 11:25 AM PT http://news.com.com/2100-1001-948179.html Italian police have arrested 14 suspected hackers who are accused of= thousands of computer intrusions, including attacks on the U.S. Army and= Navy and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Italy's financial police, the Guardia di Finanza, said Thursday that those= arrested included four minors, the security manager of a large Italian= Internet service provider, a network security manager for a computer= consulting company, and several information technology consultants. Some= had close ties to protest groups, police said. They were all members of two hacking groups, called "Mentor" and "Reservoir= Dogs," the police said. The individuals were based in cities throughout= Italy, they said. The arrests are the culmination of several months of investigation, which= began last October and was initiated by the U.S. Secret Service following= the theft of sensitive files from U.S. government and military sites. The= U.S. Army CID (Criminal Investigation Command), U.S. Navy and the U.S.= Secret Service assisted in the investigation. Besides the theft of government documents, the suspects are accused of= running up large bills on credit card numbers stolen from servers and of= using information gained from their attacks to crack an encryption system= called SECA2, used by Italy's Tele+ and Stream satellite broadcasters. Upon carrying out search warrants, police also said they discovered several= hundred pirated DVDs, which were allegedly being distributed by the= suspects. The individuals kept the illegally copied DVD content on= university servers that they had cracked, alleges the Guardia di Finanza. Some of those arrested had used their position as security consultants to= gain illegal access to their clients' servers, the police said. "In certain circumstances, the security systems installed in the private= companies network were actually hiding a back door, which allowed the= hackers to conduct their attacks," said Dario Forte, a technical expert= who runs the Guardia di Finanza's forensics unit. The unit located the= hacking groups. The Reservoir Dogs group has surfaced before. An Estonian security group= called "Domina" recently carried out an interview with a person claiming= to be part of the group. In the interview, Reservoir Dogs was described as= consisting of 10 members, all Italian, between the ages of 16 and 26. The= group focused on hacking Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as= Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris and Irix, the individual said. The unnamed member said that Reservoir Dogs was not interested in politics;= they hacked systems more to demonstrate skill than to prove a point. He or= she said the group hacked at least 100 sites per month, sometimes= including one "serious" system, such as a bank or government server, per= day. The member was unworried by the attentions of law-enforcement: "We have not= had any confrontations with law enforcement, luckily. We think that there= are a few rules to be followed (if you do not want to be) caught. We try= to respect them." The accused hackers could be imprisoned for up to eight years. ZD U.K.'s Matthew Broersma reported from London. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Free $5 Love Reading Risk Free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/09Lw8C/PfREAA/Ey.GAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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