-----Original Message----- From: NIPC Watch [mailto:nipc.watch@private] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 8:26 AM To: daily@private Subject: NIPC Daily Report 14 August 01 Significant Changes and Assessment - No significant changes International - A group of ultra-nationalist Chinese hackers said Tuesday they had attacked a series of Japanese Web sites in retaliation for a visit by Japan's prime minister to a controversial war memorial. The announcement by the Red Hacker's Alliance came one day after Premier Junichiro Koizumi visited the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors nearly 2.5 million war dead, including 14 class-A war criminals. (Source: AFP, 14 August) Officials of the main interior department of the Moscow region detained a group of hackers who had gained access to the Web server of the Digital Network company. According to officials, they found out in August that some unknown person was selling fake Internet access cards at an Internet auction (www.molotok.ru). It became clear that this person had cracked the Internet site of Digital Network and gained access to its Internet access cards. Investigators then purchased a fake $100 card for $60 and managed to detain the seller who was a 20-year old fourth-year student of the Moscow State Technical University. (Source: RosBusinessConsulting, 13 August) A special team of academics from Indonesia's Bandung Institute of Technology and the University of Padjajaran has completed a draft on first law on cyber crimes and will present it to the government in October. The law would address crimes dealing with the Internet such as credit card fraud and signature fraud that sometimes occurs during transactions on the Internet. It would also address privacy definitions on the Internet, such as how a company should handle confidential information of its customers over the Internet. The law would differentiate crimes committed intentionally for profit and those committed unintentionally; jail terms would be limited between two to four years depending on the seriousness of the crime. (Source: The Jakarta Post, 14 August) The South Korean military will stage its first mock battle to enhance its readiness against possible cyber attacks, during the regular "Ulji Focus Lens" drill in mid-August. The mock cyber battle is aimed at guarding the military's computer networks from possible hacking and virus attacks. The drill will be undertaken at the Joint Chiefs of Staff Headquarters from 20 - 31 August through a counter cyber warfare readiness system called "Infocon" put into operation in April said a military official. If Infocon is enacted by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, all command echelons, formations and units in the army, air force and navy must immediately report any encroachment to their information systems so that countermeasures can be taken. (Source: Seoul Yonhap, 13 August) A Japanese government agency has been implicated in attempts to hack into a medical research institute in New Zealand. Kiwi news service NZOOM cites security consultant Philip Whitmore from PricewaterhouseCoopers to support its allegations of state-sponsored espionage against New Zealand's private sector. Whitmore was reportedly called in to advise an unnamed Kiwi medical institute which was being probed in hacking attacks believed to have originated from South East Asia. According to NZOOM, Whitmore attended an incident where a server containing sensitive information inside a Kiwi medical research institute was targeted in an unsuccessful attack which "originated from a Japanese government agency." (Source: The Register, 13 August) Government - A Web site that allows online access to federal court records suffered a security compromise on 13 August. The hacker group known as Hi-Tech Hate, replaced the home page of the Remote Access to Court Electronic Records (RACER) site operated by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nevada, with a message entitled, "Why do we hack?" According to a scan conducted by the Safemode defacement site, which captured a mirror of the defacement, the Nevada site was running on Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) version 4.0. The main site of the Nevada bankruptcy court, which is at a different Internet protocol address, was still reachable and appeared unaffected by the intrusion. (Source: Newsbytes, 13 August) Private Sector - NTR Military - NTR U.S. SECTOR INFORMATION: Telecommunications - NTR Banking and Finance - NTR Electrical Power - NTR Transportation - NTR Water Supply - NTR Gas and Oil Storage Distribution -NTR Government Services - NTR Emergency Services - NTR NOTE: Please understand that this is for informational purposes only and does not constitute any verification of the information contained in the report nor does this constitute endorsement by the NIPC or the FBI
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