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contributed by mea culpa
Echelon is a vast mythical eavesdropping network set up by various
governments including the US, UK, Canada, Australia and others in order
to monitor the world's electronic communications (telephone, email, fax,
etc.) for subversive keywords. There seems to be two separate attempts
to jam the service by overflowing it with numerous emails filled with
key words. On October 18 the American Justice Federation has planned one
such activity. Another grass roots movement has been scheduled for the
day before Stop Police Brutality Day on October 21 in the hopes that
legal authorities will be too busy chasing down bogus leads to stop any
planned activities for the day.
Links to
Info about Echelon
Wired
On both of these days netizens around the globe are implored to send out
at least one email with at least one of the key words. While the actual
list of words is not known it is assumed that words such as these will
trigger the system: Kill FBI CIA NSA IRS ATF BATF DOD Militia gun weapon
manifesto terrorism bomb Special Forces SOF Delta Force Constitution
Mossad NASA MI5 Revolution Terrorist
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contributed by netmask
Michael Vatis of the National Infrastructure Protection Center has
created a second international incident. Last week he blamed India and
Israel among others for introducing back doors in Y2K code fixes. Now
Russia is upset over implications that it attacked US cyber defenses in
an operation known as Moonlight Maze. Russia's Foreign Intelligence
Service has denied allegations that a Kremlin sponsored cyber-spy ring
stole information from U.S. military computers. Michael Vatis of the
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation told a Senate sub-committee
Wednesday that the FBI and NIPC thought computer intruders located in
Russia had filched sensitive information from U.S. military networks.
(Someone should have a sit down talk with Vatis before someone gets
pissed and really does attack the US.)
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contributed by Ender
An Interview with someone who not only knew the phonemasters personally,
he learned phones from them. The PhoneMasters where a group recently
arrested by the FBI for bilking the nations phone companies out of
millions of dollars. The Interview tells us not about what the
phonemasters did -- but about who they were and what they DIDN'T do.
Sure, they could have turned off phone service to thousands of people.
But they didn't. Find Out Why.
Aviary
Mag
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contributed by evilwench
In a truly shocking move the GAO released yet another report yesterday
titled ""Critical Infrastructure Protection: Comprehensive Strategy Can
Draw on Year 2000 Experience" which states the government's computer
infrastructure remains dangerously vulnerable to terrorist attack.
Perhaps if they quit writing specially commissioned reports and start
tackling the problems with actions instead of rhetoric they could see
some progress.
CNN
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contributed by Michelle
A study entitled 'New World Coming: American Security in the 21st
Century' has been released by the U.S. Commission on National Security.
It covers a lot of areas including electronic threats. It also
introduces a new term 'Weapon of Mass Disruption'.
U.S. Commission on
National Security
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contributed by evilwench
Normally this sort of adverticle doesn't generate much interest for
us here at HNN. However, if you read this article carefully it sure
looks like Ernst & Young is charging up to $100k for the use of common
script kiddie techniques by their assessment staff. The quote at the
end of the piece is worth a good chuckle.
FUD Factor - 8
Blatant Commercial Plug Factor - 10
The
Star Telegram
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contributed by Space Rogue
Issue 36 of HWA.hax0r.news has been
released. Version 1.53 of Donald
Dick has been released. It now claims to be a polymorphic backdoor
trojan.
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