Return-Path: <sentto-279987-5127-1028691535-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 20:41:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 4566 invoked by uid 510); 7 Aug 2002 03:37:43 -0000 Received: from n1.grp.scd.yahoo.com (66.218.66.64) by all.net with SMTP; 7 Aug 2002 03:37:43 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-5127-1028691535-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.67.199] by n1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 07 Aug 2002 03:38:55 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_7_4); 7 Aug 2002 03:38:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 42835 invoked from network); 7 Aug 2002 03:38:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 7 Aug 2002 03:38:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.72.152) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Aug 2002 03:38:55 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g773d6224675 for iwar@onelist.com; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 20:39:06 -0700 Message-Id: <200208070339.g773d6224675@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 20:39:06 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [iwar] [fc:FBI.plays.cyber-fear.card.again] Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.7 required=5.0 tests=EXCUSE_3,DIFFERENT_REPLY_TO version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: ** FBI plays cyber-fear card again By Thomas C Greene in Washington Posted: 06/08/2002 at 21:24 GMT There's a new warning from the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), an elite cyber squad famous for infecting its own network with SirCam, and which consistently manages to worry us about the wrong things at the wrong time. Today it's a blistering cyber attack from Europe targeting American ISPs and Web sites. Only it seems not to have occurred, in spite of being based on 'credible information'. One has to wonder if the original source might be an IRC channel full of boastful young wannabes. "On the afternoon of August 05, 2002, the National Infrastructure Protection Center received credible, but non-specific information that wide-scale hacker attacks against U.S. Web sites and Internet Service Providers (ISP) are being planned for later tonight, possibly emanating from Western Europe. The purpose of this alert is to recommend that Web site and ISP administrators heighten their awareness of network traffic during this period and encourage them to report suspected malicious activities to their local FBI office or the NIPC and to other appropriate authorities." One imagines from the wording that devastating DoS attacks, a minor nuisance requiring no skills, were feared. Perhaps the would-be attackers couldn't quite figure out how to accomplish their diabolical mission. Of course there's always the possibility that the announcement itself, exhibiting the NIPC's remarkable vigilance and incredible powers of infiltration, discouraged them. Or perhaps it was just another piece of alarmist fluff cooked up by the NIPC public relations office. It's been a while since NIPC was in the news (and ages since it was in the news for something other than ridicule), so the PR bunnies may well have felt it time for a little publicity stunt. We note that the venerable cyber-sleuth agency is slated to be removed from FBI auspices and assimilated by the proposed Department of Homeland Security, an even vaster bureaucracy in which, we expect, it will continue to languish peacefully as it has, or more so. ® ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Will You Find True Love? Will You Meet the One? Free Love Reading by phone! http://us.click.yahoo.com/it_ffB/R_ZEAA/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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