Worldcom -- A Perspective on the Telecommunications Industry FTC Wants Paid Search Tools to Offer Full Disclosure New Apache Worm Starts to Spread US Fears al-Qaeda Hack Attack Piracy Fight Gets Serious ICANN Meets in Bucharest Senate backs $345M e-Gov Bill Yaha-E Worm Launches Political Attack Home Theater Update Stratford News
Many US computer sites are being cased from abroad
The surveillance was routed through telecommunications switches in Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and Pakistan
Focused on emergency telephone systems, water storage and distribution, and the power grid and power plants, including nuclear power plants.
Questioning of captured al-Qaeda operatives also found that the terror group was interested in a class of digital devices involved in distributed control systems. Many of these system use Windows OS and are susceptible to common hacks.
Californian congressman Howard Berman has drawn up a bill that would legalize the disruption of peer-to-peer networks by companies who are trying to stop people pirating copyrighted materials.
So far, music companies have only used legal action to stop people spreading pirated pop through net-based peer-to-peer networks, such as Napster, Kazaa and Audiogalaxy.
The music industry wants to employ their own hackers to develop worms and Trojans that would disrupt the exchange of titles, denial of service attacks on popular download locations, etc.
ICANN stands for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
Board voted to eliminate online election of individual Internet users
Board will be drawn from corporations, governments, NGO, technical firms.
Other board descisions included 25 cent tax on new domain name registrations, 30-day period for expired domain names, waiting list for popular domain names.
Department of Commerce is slow rolling complete turnover of the DNS to ICANN
Trojan programmed to launch a DDOS attack against the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
The From and Subject fields of the forwarded message vary but the message body will always contain this text:
"Enjoy this friendship Screen Saver and Check ur friends circle…
"Send this screensaver from to everyone you consider a FRIEND, even if it means sending it back to the person who sent it to you. If it comes back to you, then you’ll know you have a circle of friends."
Yaha-E tries to disable some antivirus and firewall programs. All antivirus programs currently have up-to-date definitions to protect against Yaha-E.