-Caveat Lector-
This kind of ties in with votescam. We have not had free
elections here in feudal/futile America for decades now...as
the perps laugh all the way to the bank, which, of course,
they own too.
Internet terrorism escalates the
new info-war
By GARRY BARKER
TECHNOLOGY REPORTER
Cyber terrorism is the new face of
international warfare,
taking the dangers of Internet crime and
anarchy far
beyond recipes for pipe bombs.
Cyber terrorists have the capacity to
undermine and
disable entire societies without a shot being
fired or a
missile launched, says Dr Matthew Warren, a
lecturer in
information systems at Deakin University and
a specialist
on cyber terrorism.
He cites activity in Mexico, Sri Lanka and
Indonesia
where, during the recent elections,
government networks
were crashed.
Dr Warren will be presenting a paper on this
threat to the
first Australian Institute of Computer Ethics
conference in
Melbourne tomorrow.
While hackers have been active in Australia
for years, no
cyber terrorist act has been reported here
yet. But the
United States Defence Department alone is
said to get 60
to 80 hacker attacks a day.
Dr Warren said the threat was serious enough
for the US
to have established the National
Infrastructure Protection
Centre, which employed more than 500 security
experts
from the CIA, the Secret Service, NASA, the
National
Security Agency and the Defence Department.
Targets
under their surveillance included
telecommunications,
energy, banking and finance, water systems,
air-traffic-control systems and government
and
emergency services.
The Internet is said to carry about 30,000
hacker-oriented sites. One, based in New
York, has
tutorials on how to write viruses,
instructions on how to
choke networks, sites to hack, and even gives
meeting
points in cities all over the world where
hackers can be
contacted.
A search on ``Australia'' for instance,
turned up
``rendezvous'' of ``Melbourne Central
shopping centre at
the Swanston Street entrance near the public
phones''
and ``outside Cafe Celsius, near the Academy
Cinema,
on the corner of Grenfell and Pulteney
Streets,
Adelaide''.
The Internet was now vulnerable expressly
because of its
global nature. ``What was seen as its
strength is now the
source of its weakness,'' Dr Warren said.
Hackers, cyber terrorists and even other
nations could
attack networks in many ways, from e-mail
viruses such
as Melissa, which last May crashed hundreds
of mail
servers around the world, to taking over
whole websites.
A spokesperson for the National Crime
Authority said a
constant watch was kept for Internet money
laundering
and electronic fraud but so far no cyber
terrorist activities
had been detected in Australia.
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