Mobilizing for the first e-war (ZDNet)
Declan McCullagh comments on the prospects of infowar and current Petagon thinking on the matter of cyber attack. From ZDNet
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Asia fingered as Sapphire's birthplace (CNET)
Some security experts are pointing to the Far East as the birthplace of the worm that wreaked havoc over the weekend for Internet servers worldwide. The Sapphire worm–also known as Slammer and SQLExp–exploits vulnerabilities in Microsoft SQL 2000 Web servers and causes increased traffic between servers. From CNET
Take Back the Net, UofT (ProfD Column in Independent Weekly
Hey U of T students, here’s a suggestion: plan a major in applied hacking. You’re going to need it – assuming, that is, you care at all about the society in which you live. From the Independent Weekly
"I poisoned P2P networks for the RIAA" – whistleblower (The Register)
“Gobbles”, the German hacker who improbably claimed to have infected peer-to-peer file sharing networks and to “0wn” your computer this week, has confirmed that his brag was a hoax. That much, you probably suspected, as Goebbels (as we must now call him) failed to offer a shred of evidence in support of the notion that… Read more »