Computerworld Security
April 27, 2009
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In this issue:
1. Internet warfare: Are we focusing on the wrong things?
2. The new ground zero in Internet warfare
3. Software: The eternal battlefield in the unending cyberwars
4. The fog of (cyber) war
5. Cyberwar's first casualty: Your privacy
6. A short history of hacks, worms and cyberterror
7. Douglas Schweitzer: Captcha can getcha too
8. Russia's cyber blockade of Georgia worked. Could it happen here?
9. Jaikumar Vijayan: If a security vendor breaks into a malicious site, is it hacking?
10. Ex-federal IT worker charged in alleged ID theft scam
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Internet warfare: Are we focusing on the wrong things?
Lack of vision and leadership have left the U.S. woefully unprepared for a cyber
catastrophe. Yet tech threats are growing and pose a grave risk to national and
economic security.
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The new ground zero in Internet warfare
Cyber experts concur that the electric power grid is the most vulnerable to
attack of all critical infrastructure in the U.S. But that's about the only
thing they agree on.
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Software: The eternal battlefield in the unending cyberwars
Internet attacks take many forms, but most of them exploit persistent weaknesses
in software. The old protections are no longer enough.
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The fog of (cyber) war
There's no global agreement on the definitions of cyberwarfare or
cyberterrorism, so how does a nation conform to the rule of law if it's
compelled to respond to a cyberattack?
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Cyberwar's first casualty: Your privacy
Opinion: Preston Gralla says that in the era of cyberwar, privacy will be the
first casualty.
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A short history of hacks, worms and cyberterror
From Captain Crunch to Ghostnet, a rogue's gallery of pranksters, hackers and
cybercrooks.
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Douglas Schweitzer: Captcha can getcha too
Sometimes figuring out what those squiggly characters are is tricky and that's
the point. Captchas were designed to require some thinking. Typing in those
letters and numbers that appear in the little colorful box is supposed to be a
challenge and task that only humans carry out. Online criminals can't use their
bots (and botnets) to distinguish letters and numbers that have been altered
beyond their automated recognition capabilities.
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Russia's cyber blockade of Georgia worked. Could it happen here?
Russia's cyber hijacking of Georgia was bad, but the response to it made matters
worse by crippling Georgia's financial systems. Could it happen here?
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Jaikumar Vijayan: If a security vendor breaks into a malicious site, is it hacking?
Security vendors sometimes break into malicious Web sites and systems to gather
data for stopping cyber crooks. How justifiable is that practice?
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Ex-federal IT worker charged in alleged ID theft scam
A former IT analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and his brother were
arrested Friday on charges that they took out loans using stolen information,
including sensitive information belonging to federal employees at the bank.
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network accounts set up for them multiple times in the past. Every time, they
stop logging in to their computers, and 90 days later, their accounts are
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