[ISN] Microsoft's Digital Rights Management -- A Little Deeper

2002-07-01 Thread InfoSec News
http://bsdvault.net/article.php?sid=527&mode=&order=0 Contributed by DittoHead on Friday, June 28 @ 10:36:24 EDT I read this article about Microsoft's Palladium Digital Rights Management last week, linked from the Drudge Report. The story was reported in many other places, so I didn't submit it

[ISN] Singapore's largest bank hit by hacker

2002-07-01 Thread InfoSec News
http://japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=7&id=221053 Sunday, June 30, 2002 at 18:00 JST SINGAPORE - A 30-year-old Chinese national is believed to have hacked into online accounts at Singapore's largest bank and transferred money to his own account, Singapore's Sunday Times newspaper reported Su

[ISN] Security analysts dismiss fears of terrorist hackers - Electricity,water systems hard to damage online

2002-07-01 Thread InfoSec News
Forwarded from: William Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/30/MN152350.DTL&type=tech Bill Wallace, Chronicle Staff Writer Sunday, June 30, 2002 Despite growing government concern that al Qaeda and its allies may try to use com

[ISN] Falun Gong's on TV

2002-07-01 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,4600356%255E401,00.html By Catherine Armitage in China 29 June 02 MILLIONS of Chinese television viewers got a shock this week when Falun Gong propaganda was beamed into their living rooms as members of the banned sect hijacked one of C

Re: [ISN] Government Not Ready for Cyberattacks

2002-07-01 Thread InfoSec News
Forwarded from: Drew Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well, here we are once again OVERstating the obvious. I can't decide whether the media is just bored, and continues to rewrite the same stupid, non-informing information, or whether these "government agencies" are as clueless as they appear. I th

[ISN] A couple little things...

2002-07-01 Thread InfoSec News
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[ISN] New Apache worm starts to spread

2002-07-01 Thread InfoSec News
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-940585.html?tag=fd_top By Robert Lemos Staff Writer, CNET News.com June 28, 2002, 5:00 PM PT Security experts are rushing to decode a worm program that exploits a 2-week-old flaw to infect computers running vulnerable versions of the popular open-source Apache We

[ISN] Tech managers targeted by cyber criminals

2002-07-01 Thread InfoSec News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_2068000/2068276.stm 27 June, 2002 The head of the UK's cyber police unit has warned that tech managers could become victims of kidnappers and organised crime. Len Hynds, from the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), has told Computing magazine t

RE: [ISN] Cyber-Attacks by Al Qaeda Feared

2002-07-01 Thread InfoSec News
Forwarded from: Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> -Original Message- -> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 3:05 AM -> -> -> Late last fall, Detective Chris Hsiung of the Mountain View, Calif., -> police department began investigating a suspicious pattern of -> surveillan