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Courtesy the Overseas Security Advisory Council

Tuesday April 08, 2003
All Quiet on the Cyber-war Front (Original)
Since the war in Iraq began, the Internet has not seen a dramatic rise of malicious activity, said Jim Melnick, director of threat intelligence for the security analysis firm iDefense Inc., Reston, Va...

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Apache Urges Update Ahead of DoS Risk Alert (Original)
The Apache Software Foundation has updated its popular Web server software to guard against a serious, as yet unspecified, denial of service risk.

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Australia Leaves the Hack Door Open to Cyber Sabotage (Original)
Australia's critical information infrastructure is at risk because of the Federal Government's focus on physical infrastructure and terrorism, the head of Australia's Computer Emergency Response Team ...

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Databases Ripe for Attacks (Original)
The SQL Slammer worm played a major role in a recently reported spike in security incidents during the first three months of 2003.

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Dawn of the Superworm (Original)
The attack came swiftly and without warning. At 12:30 a.m. eastern standard time, January 25, a single packet of data containing the Slammer worm began spreading across the Internet. Within 10 minutes...

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Hackers Can Tap Alien Intelligence Screensaver (Original)
A vulnerability has been discovered in Seti@home, the desktop screensaver used by 500,000 people worldwide that runs a peer-to-peer scan for extraterrestrial intelligence.

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Hackers Shoot the Messenger -- Iraqi Conflict Category at StumbleUpon.com Draws Attack (Original)
An attempted denial-of-service attack on StumbleUpon.com appears to be an attack against freedom of information on the Internet. A person or persons attempted to shut down the popular web community in...

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Handle Corporate Security As Single Entity, Users Say (Original)
Stress that IT security can't be divorced from physical, personnel security plans.

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Increase in Computer Hacking Tied to War (Original)
Computer hacking attacks and other Internet security breaches grew at an alarming rate in the first quarter of this year, in part because of sentiments over the war in Iraq.

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Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems (Original)
On a normal system, if an attacker gains root or administrator access, he or she can run rampant. Not so on a trusted system -- at least so long as it is properly configured.

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Samba Flaw Threatens Linux File Servers (Original)
The Samba Team released a patch on Monday for the second major security flaw found in the past few weeks in the open-source group's widely used program for sharing Windows files between Unix and Linux...

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Security Attacks Jump in Q1 (Original)
Security incidents and attacks were up 36.6 per cent over the first three months of this year.

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Vicious Internet Activities Targeted (Original)
China is trying to erect a national boundary to reign in the Internet, which has long been considered a cyber territory with no demarcation line between countries.

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