CRIME FW: NIPC Daily Report 21 June 2002

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Date: Fri Jun 21 2002 - 08:50:18 PDT

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    Below is the NIPC Daily Report for 21 June 2002.   Please contact the
    NIPC Watch and Warning Center for any questions/concerns.
    
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    NIPC Daily Report  21 June 2002
    
    The NIPC Watch and Warning Unit compiles this report to inform
    recipients of issues impacting the integrity and capability of the
    nation's critical infrastructures.
    
    Private sector urged to shore up networks.  On 18 June the President's
    Critical Infrastructure Protection Board hosted a town hall meeting to
    urge private-sector owners and operators of the nation's critical
    infrastructures to join the federal government in protecting the nation
    from a devastating cyber attack. In addition to building private sector
    buy-in for the effort, the board plans to incorporate suggestions from
    this series of meetings for a "National Strategy for Securing
    Cyberspace" that the administration is expected to publish in the coming
    weeks. Administration officials are concerned that state-sponsored
    terrorist attacks against the country's critical infrastructures could
    be devastating and want to be prepared with a private sector
    partnership. Critical infrastructure protection efforts have focused on
    voluntary cooperation programs such as InfraGard, which is designed to
    allow businesses to share information with the FBI without worrying that
    their company will be hurt by negative publicity. The government then
    compares this data with other information to determine if an organized
    attack is underway.  (Info World, 17 June)
    
    Dartmouth institute examines preparedness for investigating cyber
    attacks.  A report released this week by researchers at Dartmouth's
    Institute for Security Technology Studies (ISTS) examines the state of
    investigative tools needed by law enforcement officials who fight cyber
    crime.  The report, titled "Law Enforcement Tools and Technologies for
    Investigating Cyber Attacks: A National Needs Assessment," details the
    technology hurdles faced by cyber crime investigators and outlines a
    wish list of tools and technologies required to do the job better. The
    report is available on the Internet at www.ists.dartmouth.edu
    <http://www.ists.dartmouth.edu> , and it is primarily intended for law
    enforcement officials at all levels of government. "This report is the
    first step toward establishing a national research and development
    agenda on combating cyber attacks," says Michael Vatis, Director of
    ISTS. Dartmouth's Institute for Security Technology Studies (ISTS)
    serves as a national center for counter-terrorism and cyber security
    technology research, development and assessment. It is funded in part
    through the US Justice Department's National Institute of Justice,
    Office of Science and Technology, and the US Commerce Department's
    National Institute of Standards and Technology. (Dartmouth News Release,
    18 June). 
    
    Strike by air traffic ontrollers disrupts Europe.  Air traffic
    controllers in five European countries walked off the job forcing
    airlines to cancel most flights in France and disrupting air travel in
    much of the rest of the Continent as well.  Unions called for the strike
    in France, Italy, Greece, Portugal and Hungary to protest plans by the
    European Union to restructure the way that air corridors are operated.
    It was the third such strike since last year. (International Herald
    Tribune, 20 June)
    
    FAA controller turnover concern.  Thousands of air traffic controllers
    hired after the 1981 strike are getting ready to retire, and the Federal
    Aviation Administration isn't preparing for replacements according to a
    General Accounting Office (GAO) report. The GAO said almost 70 percent
    of the current 20,000 controllers and supervisors will be eligible to
    retire by September 2011. (Columbian, 18 June)
    
    WWU Comment: The two previous articles highlight the severity of an air
    traffic control disruption.  European issues of this sort can directly
    affect US air carriers.  Strikes may continue as the European Union
    pushes ahead with economic reform. 
    



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