CRIME NIPC Watch Daily Report 3 May 2002

From: George Heuston (GeorgeH@private)
Date: Fri May 03 2002 - 14:23:56 PDT

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    House committee OKs spectrum auction delay. The House Energy and 
    Commerce Committee today passed legislation to prevent the Federal 
    Communications Commission (FCC) from auctioning off a valuable swath of 
    airwave spectrum. Committee spokesman Ken Johnson said that lawmakers 
    hope to bring the bill to a vote in the full House of Representatives. 
    At issue is a block of airwave licenses in the 700 MHz band that has 
    many wireless companies salivating. Broadcasters currently occupying 
    that spectrum band are expected to vacate the airwaves as they make the 
    transition to digital television. "It is true that the auction of the 
    upper portion of the 700 MHz band has been delayed five times. But 
    conducting the auctions for both the upper and lower parts of the 700 
    MHz band in June would be wrong. These auctions are simply not ready for
    
    prime time," he added. (Washtech.com, 2 May)
    
    Bipartisan group pushes bill to create homeland security department. On 
    2 May A bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers introduced a bill
    
    to establish a Cabinet-level Department of National Homeland Security 
    and a White House Office of Combating Terrorism. Within the department, 
    an office of science and technology would act as an interagency 
    clearinghouse for new technologies to assist in improving homeland 
    security. The department would consist of the Critical Infrastructure 
    Assurance Office; the National Infrastructure Protection Center; the 
    Federal Emergency Management Agency; the Customs Service; the 
    enforcement branch of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the 
    Coast Guard and other agencies. (National Journal's Technology Daily, 02
    
    May)
    
    Hackers set off on a rampage. A group of hackers has defaced dozens of 
    Web sites in the past two weeks and published sensitive data culled from
    
    the sites in what it says is an effort to increase awareness of online 
    security risks. The group, which calls itself the "Deceptive Duo", is in
    
    the midst of a multi-part hacking campaign targeting different sectors 
    of government and industry. Initial victims have included the Federal 
    Aviation Administration, the Department of Defense and Sandia National 
    Laboratories. Sandia National Laboratories spokesman Chris Miller 
    confirmed that a page maintained by the lab had briefly been defaced. 
    (ZDNet News, 2 May)
    WWU Comment: As of this posting another web site maintained by the 
    Sandia National Laboratories had been successfully targeted and defaced 
    by the Deceptive Duo. This cracking team appears to be targeting Windows
    
    based web servers.
    



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