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Vijay Mukhi, President of the Foundation for Information Security and Technology says, “The terrorists know that if they use machines at home, they can be caught. Cybercafes therefore give them anonymity.”

“The police needs to install programs that will capture every key stroke at regular interval screen shots, which will be sent back to a server that will log all the data.

The police can then keep track of all communication between terrorists no matter, which part of the world they operate from.This is the only way to patrol the net and this is how the police informer is going to look in the e-age,” added Mukhi.

Is anyone talking about the societal implications of this sort of wholesale surveillance? Not really:

“The question we need to ask ourselves is whether a breach of privacy is more important or the security of the nation. I do not think the above question needs an answer,” said Mukhi.”As long as personal computers are not being monitored. If monitoring is restricted to public computers, it is in the interest of security,” said National Vice President, People Union for Civil Liberty.

The Pentagon got owned pretty hard with 1,500 accounts being taken offline due to a hack attack. For once however they did admit the incident and didn’t try to cover it over or brush it off.

I guess the amount of attacks they get is exponentially more than other networks…but still, I would have thought they should be super secure.

About 1,500 unclassified e-mail users at the Pentagon had their service disrupted yesterday when a hacker infiltrated the e-mail system, forcing the accounts to be taken offline.

In a briefing today with reporters in Washington at the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates confirmed the incident and said that the users were disconnected from the system after the intrusion was discovered.

“The reality is that the Defense Department is constantly under attack,” Gates said during the briefing. “Elements of the [Office of the Secretary of Defense] unclassified e-mail system were taken offline yesterday afternoon, due to a detected penetration. A variety of precautionary measures are being taken. We expect the system to be online again very soon.”

The funny thing is the Secretary of Defense himself doesn’t even use e-mail…so I doubt he even noticed what had happened.

Hopefully the government will sharpen up it’s ideas.

Gates said that he was not sure why the 1,500 users were removed temporarily from the system. “Well, I don’t know the answer to that, and they’re still investigating it.”

Gates said he doesn’t use e-mail, so he didn’t know if his account was affected.

“I don’t do e-mail,” he said. “I’m a very low-tech person.”

A spokesman at the Department of Defense late this afternoon said he had no additional information about the incident.

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traffic which can be used for KoreK-style WEP-key recovery.

This tool can be used to mount fake access point attack against WEP-based wireless clients.

Wep0ff is new tool to crack WEP-key without access to AP by mount fake access point attack against WEP-based wireless clients.

It uses combination of fragmentation and evil twin attacks to generate
traffic which can be used for KoreK-style WEP-key recovery.

This tool can be used to mount fake access point attack against WEP-based wireless clients.

You can download it here:

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A hacker stole sensitive data from a computer in the offices of French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, police said, fueling his fears that rivals used it to try and keep him out of the presidential race.

The security breach at Le Pen’s National Front party headquarters comes as the campaign intensified ahead of the April and May election with several candidates facing smear scandals in recent weeks.

Le Pen, who shocked France by finishing second in the 2002 presidential election, is struggling to secure the backing of at least 500 elected officials needed to run this time round.

He says he has been the target of a well-prepared offensive to persuade the officials, including mayors, not to sign and asked police to open an investigation after suspecting that a mole might have leaked the names of his potential backers.

After a visit to the headquarters of his National Front party on Friday, the police said the list of officials who had agreed to back Le Pen had been stolen by a hacker.

The hacker had gained access using an Internet site specializing in breaking entry codes. A National Front employee who used the computer that was hacked into was detained but later released.

News of the electronic break-in, came just a week after the Socialist party demanded an investigation into what it said was a spate of burglaries targeting its campaign team.

Le Pen has until March 16 to gain the sponsorship of at least 500 of France’s 42,000 elected representatives, including parliamentarians and mayors, to become a candidate.

He says he is 100 short and has accused a far-right rival of trying to poach his sponsors.

Despite his success in 2002, when he won 16.8 percent of the vote, Le Pen’s National Front party does not have any mayors and he has criss-crossed France for months to find backers.

Supporters of mainstream conservative candidate Nicolas Sarkozy have appeared increasingly uneasy at the prospect of Le Pen being blocked from running.

They believe National Front supporters will prove a vital pool of potential voters in an expected second-round run off between Sarkozy and Socialist candidate Segolene Royal, and fear a high abstention rate if Le Pen is shut out of the first round.

Among other candidates who may not make the sponsorship grade are anti-globalization leader Jose Bove who says he has accumulated just 350 signatures. Greens candidate Dominique Voynet says she has 500 pledges, but only 15 returned forms.

The candidates fear some mayors will not come good on their promises and say they need at least 600 pledges to feel safe.

Source: Reuters

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According to a March 10th eWeek article by Lisa Vaas, a self-proclaimed Romanian hacker posted eBay member information at an eBay forum (“Romanian Hacker Broadcasts eBay Customer Accounts”) . The hacker, who calls himself “Born_To_Scam_American_Guys”, also posted what amounts to a critique of American and Canadian computer users and their alleged helpful stupidity.

Many of the posts were valid while some were for unvalidated membership requests. eBay is working to notify affected users. Information provided by the hacker included “…Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, credit card verification numbers, bank account and routing numbers, ATM PIN numbers, mothers’ maiden names, birth dates, driver’s license
numbers, as well as home addresses and full contact information.”

Source: TechnRepublic