 Sunday, 02. February 2003
Germany DDOSing Nazi-Servers?
Nachdem die Bundesregierung mit ihrer Berliner Erklärung ( Berliner Erklärung gegen den Hass im Netz ), die einen Mindestbestand an internationalen Strafbestimmungen festlegen und besonders die Strafverfolgung gegen Neonazis im Internet verbessern helfen sollte, bei den auf das Recht auf "Free Speech" pochenden Amerikanern abgeblitzt war, fuhr Schily in einem Gespräch mit Focus (37/2000) andere Geschütze auf: Damals sagte er, dass sein Haus die Umwandlung des Web in eine neonazistische Propagandaplattform "sehr bewegt". Weiter ließ er die Leser des Magazins wissen, dass er zunächst mit den Providern in den USA und Kanada "reden" wolle, "wo die meisten dieser Schmutzseiten eingespeist werden". Schon damals kündigte er aber an, dass er "noch weiter gehen" würde: "Wir sollten überlegen, solche Websites durch technische Maßnahmen auszuschalten. Sie sollten als Störung von Recht und Ordnung im Wege des Polizeirechts ausgeblendet werden."
Nach dem umstrittenen Töben-Urteil des Bundesgerichtshofs , demzufolge deutsches Strafrecht im Fall der Holocaust-Leugnung weltweit anwendbar sein soll, wurde der Innenminister dann kurz vor Weihnachten gegenüber der Washington Post konkreter: Notfalls müsste man Provider, die ihren Kunden Nazipropaganda ermöglichten, mit Werbe- oder Datenmüll überfluten, erläuterte er seinen Feldzug gegen die Rechten im Netz dem erstaunten US-Reporter. Erstmals schloss Schily also dezidiert eine Art DoS-Attacke in seinen Kampfplan mit ein.
Auch gegenüber der deutschen Presse hielt das Bundesinnenministerium mit seinem Vorhaben nun nicht länger zurück. Hackerattacken im Auftrag des Ministeriums seien keineswegs "im Unrechtsbereich anzusiedeln", argumentierte Schilys Sprecher Dirk Inger. Gerechtfertigt würden die lange verfemten Mittel durch den "Gedanken der Verteidigung unserer Rechtsordnung gegen rechtswidrige Angriffe unter bewusster Ausnutzung der Internationalität des Mediums Internet." ( DoS-Angriffe aus dem deutschen Innenministerium auf Websites im Ausland? )
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Monday, 27. January 2003
Junk-mail Foe Joe Is Caught Spamming
January 26, 2003 -- Hours after announcing he would run for president in 2004, Sen. Joseph Lieberman - a vocal opponent of "spam" - flooded the Internet with his own junk e-mail.
The notice broadcasting Lieberman's candidacy was sent to thousands of addresses purchased from ROPAC, a defunct political action committee that had compiled the list from a variety of sources, The Post has learned.
The tactic was surprising. Two years ago, Sen. Lieberman co-sponsored the anti-junk-mail legislation "CAN-SPAM." He stated at the time: "[Spam] is not requested by the receiver. It almost never contains any information of substance or value . . . only Congress has the power to regulate interstate commerce and address this problem on a national scale."
New York Post Jan 26 2003 6:04AM ET [moreover Computersecurity]
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Saturday, 25. January 2003
Wife tracks hubby with secret GPS bug in his car
"Cops don't need warrants to bug vehicles, Nevada high court
says" http://www.politechbot.com/p-03452.html
"U.K. plans to track all drivers with GPS, charge fees" http://www.politechbot.com/p-03178.html
Oregon's GPS Road toll plan: http://www.odot.state.or.us/ruftf/pdfs/VMTPreferred_Scenario_Nov1502.pdf
(the same is just beeing deployed for trucks in germany)
Wife attaches GPS tracker to car to track husband http://www.theitem.com/CityDesk/030118a_news.cfm
[Politech]
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Tuesday, 10. December 2002
Schneier: Homeland Security Needs Cops
John Young writes "In the September Atlantic Monthly Bruce Schneier explains yet again why cryptography is not the solution to security; what's needed are private cyber cops like his:
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/09/mann.htm
Amazing how Bruce's philosopy matches that of those he once combated in the "crypto wars." He recants crypto security to remind that there is never to be found lasting security, as with the TLAs worldwide, except by well-paid vigilance of those who know best how to protect us. He may be right, or he may smell Starbucks.
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When I asked Schneier why Counterpane had such Darth Vaderish command centers, he laughed and said it helped to reassure potential clients that the company had mastered the technology. I asked if clients ever inquired how Counterpane trains the guards and analysts in the command centers. "Not often," he said, although that training is in fact the center of the whole system. Mixing long stretches of inactivity with short bursts of frenzy, the work rhythm of the Counterpane guards would have been familiar to police officers and firefighters everywhere. As I watched the guards, they were slurping soft drinks, listening to techno-death metal, and waiting for something to go wrong. They were in a protected space, looking out at a dangerous world. Sentries around Neolithic campfires did the same thing. Nothing better has been discovered since. Thinking otherwise, in Schneier's view, is a really terrible idea.
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Heroes, by god, what we need are more poster boy heroes."
[Openflows Networks Ltd.: Analysis]
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Friday, 29. November 2002
Anger as Microsoft hires EU official
Microsoft hires a European Commission official who was close to Europe's ongoing antitrust case against the company. [BBC News Online]
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Wednesday, 27. November 2002
China accused of jailing net users
Human rights group Amnesty International says Beijing has created a new form of political prisoner - those who express their views online. [BBC News Online]
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Sunday, 24. November 2002
The constitutional basis of litigation?
The New York Times publishes "Is Litigation a Blight, or Built In?", which features law professors who say, in essence, that litigation
has become a
necessity in a nation where the central government has been hamstrung by a constitutional system which artificially restricts its otherwise all-reaching power. (Link suggested by How Appealing)
While countries like Britain, Germany, France or Sweden have a centralized government with powerful regulatory agencies to provide safeguards and with generous social welfare benefits to cushion life's blows, Professor Burke argues, the decentralized American system forces Americans to take their problems to court. So instead of national health care, he says, Americans get proposals for a "patients' bill of rights" that would allow the sick to sue their managed-care companies.
They just never quit, do they?
[The LitiGator]
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Saturday, 23. November 2002
Is the new wave of cyber security just to stop web terrorism ... or is there a hidden agenda?
THE trouble with IT is that the more significant it becomes, the more open it is to attack from the same collection of reactionary fools, simian thugs and intellectual pygmies that have worked so hard to screw up the rest of human endeavour for us.
In moves that will no doubt have delighted Iraqi bunker manufacturers, the CIA this month warned that fundamentalist Muslim terror group Hezbollah is among a gaggle of shadowy miscreants hoping to wreak havoc upon the West with a wave of 'cyber-attacks'. Lawks a lawdy -- this is scary stuff.
With breathtaking serendipity, this stark message was bolstered on the same day by an announcement in London by security specialists mi2g that terrorist-backed hacking attacks on the web have increased 10-fold over the past month. The company, which has a board and advisory committee packed with players from the diplomatic, defence and intelligence services, claims that at least 3001 such incursions took place in October.
Connoisseurs of irony, for whom these are rich and fruitful times, will have enjoyed the fact that if the digital revolution is seriously threatened at all, it is largely by the people making such big pronouncements.
Let's cast our minds back to 2001, when the spectre of Code Red threatened to bring the web grinding to a halt. While off-the-record briefings from the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Centre (NIPC) hinted strongly that the malicious worm was a Chinese cyber-attack responsible for a 30% slowing down in web speeds, it transpired that a non-politically motivated hacker from London was later arrested and the velocity breakdown traced to a train derailment in Baltimore.
By the time the truth was out the damage had been done, but that didn't particularly bother an agency that only days before had been officially censured for its incompetence and was in desperate need of a PR victory. Doubtless the security industry had no regrets over the free publicity either.
There can be no doubt that hacking does pose a very real threat to businesses and governments. Increased use of online services means that malevolent geeks have a multitude of targets to choose from, and clearly these need to be protected.
What's odd, however, is the unbelievably convenient political nature of the threats reported by security agencies. During the trial of Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh it was white supremacists haunting our wires, a danger that was momentarily replaced by the online Cuban menace before switching to the Red Chinese. Since September 11, all the action has apparently been routed from Islam.
In much the same way that fear of terrorist attack has been used to introduce levels of surveillance and executive power in the US that would once have been considered massively unconstitutional, the spooks are now moving to cover the online world. The net is too democratic and makes information and ideas too accessible for such agencies to control, and consequently they're going to do something about it. Sunday Herald Nov 23 2002 3:32PM ET [moreover Computersecurity]
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Friday, 22. November 2002
Justiz für PR missbraucht
Die Klage eines Spam-Unternehmens gegen einen Spam-Gegner wurde nun endgültig zurückgezogen. Nach Angaben des Klägers, wurde der gewünschte Werbeeffekt erreicht. [intern.de]
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Agency Weighed, but Discarded, Plan Reconfiguring the Internet
he Pentagon research agency that is exploring how to create a vast database of electronic transactions and analyze them for potential terrorist activity considered but rejected another surveillance idea: tagging Internet data with unique personal markers to make anonymous use of some parts of the Internet impossible.
The idea, which was explored at a two-day workshop in California in August, touched off an angry private dispute among computer scientists and policy experts who had been brought together to assess the implications of the technology.
The plan, known as eDNA, called for developing a new version of the Internet that would include enclaves where it would be impossible to be anonymous while using the network. The technology would have divided the Internet into secure "public network highways," where a computer user would have needed to be identified, and "private network alleyways," which would not have required identification.
[New York Times: Technology]
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Why is mi2g so unpopular?
Richard Forno, author of The Art of Information Warfare and security consultant to the US Department of Defense, has launched a broadside against mi2g, accusing the UK-based security consultancy of spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt about cyberterrorism risks.
In a critique entitled Security Through Soundbyte: The 'Cybersecurity Intelligence' Game, Forno questions mi2g's estimates of damage caused by cyber attacks and the whole basis of its 'cybersecurity intelligence' business.
Much of Forno's criticism of mi2g chimes with that of VMyths editor Rob Rosenberger, who features mi2g high up in his hysteria roll call of security industry Prophets of Doom.
Rosenberger's "relentless caricatures of the company's press releases, publicity blitzes, and founder, DK Matai" earned his pages - rather than mi2g's - top billing on Internet searches for the term "mi2g controversy", and provoked a nastygram from mi2g back in July. mi2g was also unhappy about Rosenberger's use of PR-supplied pictures of mi2g's founder Matai in his satirical stories.
[The Register - Security]
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Net activism offers lessons for ministers
The increasing use of the internet by political activists could provide valuable lessons for the UK Government say experts. At a summit of ministers, business leaders and net experts in London this week, officials acknowledged that the government needed to do more to get citizens engaged in the political process online.
And there were plenty of people on hand to offer advice.
Dr Ian Kearns, head of the Digital Society Project at think-tank the Institute for Public Policy Research told the conference that e-democracy must walk hand-in-hand with e-government.
[BBC News Online]
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Blueprint hacker duped
Dutch police have just disclosed that they searched the house of a computer hacker in Leusden on July 16, at the request of the American authorities.
The 19-year-old man had evidently hacked the network of Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum (HOK), an American architectural company involved in renovation work at the US Department of Defence, gaining access to alarm-system and other blueprints of the Pentagon and several FBI buildings.
Reporting on the website WebWereld, the hacker said that he had accepted an offer by the firm of architects to help identify flaws in its network security in exchange for US$3,600, and had subsequently submitted his report.
However, after disclosing his address the hacker found the police on his doorstep. Europemedia.net Nov 23 2002 6:10PM ET [moreover Computersecurity]
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Thursday, 21. November 2002
The Cult of Hackers
Hackers are typically portrayed as one of two stereotypes: digital Robin Hoods taking on the Internet's wired establishment or sinister masterminds who can upend everyday users' lives with their technical exploits.
In reality, hackers -- who tend to resist that blanket term in favor of more specialized designations, such as cracker, white hat or black hat -- are usually tech-savvy individuals experimenting with their skill sets by probing applications and Web sites for vulnerabilities, security expert Ryan Russell told NewsFactor.
But how did hacker myths arise? What sparks our fascination with those who illicitly explore computer systems?
Comic Book Characters
Gartner research director Richard Stiennon told NewsFactor that the public's desire to view real-world individuals as fictional good guys and bad guys is the driving force that determines how hackers are perceived.
[...] [NewsFactor Cybercrime & Security]
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Germany, Austria take stand against EU ISP data retention laws
Big Brother laws welcomed by other European govts [The Register]
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Streit um Bugtraq-Eintrag: Aufklären oder schweigen?
Spätestens seit Microsofts Forderung, Sicherheitslücken geheimzuhalten, bis entsprechende Bugfixes verfügbar sind, herrscht ein Streit darüber, ob Security-Alerts hilfreich sind oder Hackern als Anleitung dienen. Viele Experten sind der Ansicht, Hersteller würden Patches nur sehr langsam oder überhaupt nicht zur Verfügung stellen, wenn nicht öffentlich vor in betreffenden Anwendungen entdeckten Lecks gewarnt würde. Andere, wie der oberste US-Sicherheitswächter Richard Clarke, meinen, Anbietern müsste eine angemessene Frist zur Entwicklung der Fehlerbereinigungen eingeräumt werden.
Nun erhitzt ein Eintrag in die Mailing-Liste Bugtraq erneut die Gemüter. Der Autor beschreibt darin detailiert einen so genannten Exploit (Exploit = Anwendung, mit der sich gezielt einzelne Sicherheitslücken ausnutzen lassen), der die Festplatten von Anwendern der Versionen 5.5 und 6.0 des Internet Explorers formatiert, wenn diese manipulierte Web-Seiten aufrufen. Er verstehe nicht, sagte der unabhängige Sicherheitsexperte Richard Smith, inwiefern die Veröffentlichung des Exploits die Sicherheit betroffener Systeme erhöhe.
Vielmehr helfe der Anitivirenhersteller Symantec, der die Mailing-Liste hostet, Script Kiddies, Internet-Seiten entsprechend zu präparieren. Offenbar werde das Forum nicht mehr moderiert, nachdem es von Symantec übernommen wurde. Der Eintrag sei explizit zur Veröffentlichung in Bugtraq freigegeben worden, erwiderte Symantec-Sprecherin Genevieve Haldeman. Die Mailing-Liste gelte als unabhängige Kommunikationsplattform für Sicherheitsexperten und habe die Aufgabe, vor Gefahren dieser Art zu warnen, bevor sie "in the wild" auftauchen.
[ComputerWoche: Nachrichten]
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Wednesday, 20. November 2002
ISC "Irresponsible" for Withholding BIND Patches
The Internet Software Consortium is taking heavy criticism for the way it handled the release of patches for a new BIND vulnerability last week. ISC knew about the security holes in late October, but initially only provided fixes for paying members of its early-alert services. The advisory went public on November 12, though it took nearly a day longer for the patches to be readily available. Considering that BIND is critical DNS software running on millions of servers, and that the vulnerability could yield root access, many in the security community felt withholding the patches was both extortionary and irresponsible. [Hideaway.Net]
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Software Retailer Uses FOIA to Spam Students
Aan enterprising software retailer used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain a list of students' names and addresses from West Virginia University--then used the list to send the students spam. [GrepLaw]
See also http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1037720184301450468,00.html
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Tuesday, 19. November 2002
UK - Hopes raised for Internet grooming ban
(ZDNet UK)
Internet grooming, the practice by which paedophiles use the Web to cultivate relationships with children with the aim of making contact and abusing them, could soon be made illegal. The Queen's Speech, which lays out the government's legislative agenda for the next 12 months, included a commitment to bring forward a bill to review the laws on sexual offences. The precise details of the bill will not be published until later this year, but it is likely that this bill will outlaw the grooming of children by paedophiles, following pressure from child protection charities. [Quick Links Computercrime/Cybercrime]
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More detail on NSW police anti-terrorism powers
More details are emerging of the proposed new anti-terrorism powers for NSW police. Premier Bob Carr has emphasised that the new powers for warrantless searches are only available following a terrorist strike or "credible threat". Coincidentally, the Australian federal government today issued a warning of a "credible terrorism threat" that will last "the next couple of months".
"Police only exercise these powers in the wake of a credible threat or a... [zem]
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How Much Hack Info Is Too Much?
When security company Symantec publishes details of a Web browser bug that lets hackers control affected computers -- and even erase the hard drives -- industry insiders wonder if full disclosure is a good thing. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]
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Minor compromise on ASIO detention powers
Australia's opposition Labor party has proposed a compromise to the government's ASIO bill. The new proposal isn't much of a compromise however: non-suspects can still be detained and interrogated for an indefinite period, and there's no mention of a solution to earlier concerns that the new powers could be used to intimidate journalists .
The compromise would allow Australians to be detained and questioned at ASIO's behest for an unspecified period, even if... [zem]
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USA lehnen Verbot rassistischer Sites ab
[The US will not sign the EU cybercrime-treaty hate-speech ban]
Die von europäischer Seite gehegte Hoffnung eines weltweiten Verbotes fremdenfeindlicher Sites wird enttäuscht. Die USA lehnen ein solches Verbot als verfassungsfeindlich ab. [intern.de]
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Slate: Spam is killing e-mail
One-third of the 30 billion e-mails sent worldwide each day are spam. That's 10 billion daily pitches for herbal Viagra, Nigerian scams, and genital-enlarging creams piling up in our inboxes. Neither legislation nor litigation against spammers has stemmed the tide, and they're not going to have much of an effect in the future, either. It's time to give up: Despite the best efforts of legislators, lawyers, and computer programmers, spam has won. Spam is killing e-mail.
...Or at least it's about to destroy the e-mail we're used to: the tool that lets a stranger respond to something you posted on your Web site or that lets a potential client contact you after reading an article you wrote. E-mail is pervasive because it's simple to use, remarkably flexible, and it reaches everyone. The trouble is that e-mail is too good at that third task. Because e-mail inboxes are open to anyone, longtime Internet users now receive hundreds of spams per day, making e-mail virtually unusable without countermeasures.
SPAMMERS AND FILTERS
The most common countermeasure, server-side filtering, has serious limitations. No automated system can identify spam as well as a human can. Internet service providers certainly try: They block known spammer addresses and use algorithms to identify spam based on an e-mail's contents, subject line, or other headers. AOL and MSN both trumpet spam filtering systems like this in their latest software, and Yahoo! and Microsoft's Hotmail offer junk-mail filters for their Web-based e-mail services.
But the filters are running out of gas. The spammers keep multiplying, and they keep finding clever ways to fool the systems designed to stop them. Promising newcomers such as CloudMark, which taps the collective power of e-mail recipients to identify spam, may improve things for a while. But there will always be a trade-off between catching all the spam and ensuring that every piece of legitimate e-mail gets through.
RISE OF `WHITELISTS'
So, sophisticated Internet users are turning to a new approach. Instead of trying to block spam while allowing everything else, these users employ software that blocks everything except messages from already known, accepted senders. These systems, called "whitelists," change e-mail from an open system to a closed one.
Whitelist applications available today include MailFrontier , ChoiceMail from DigiPortal, Vanquish, and the freeware Tagged Message Delivery Agent. There's also a whitelist option built into Hotmail, known as the "exclusive" setting. Though it's hidden in the preferences menu (click "Options," then "Junk Mail Filter"), more than 10 percent of Hotmail users reportedly invoke it. Before long, expect all e-mail applications to offer this function.
Whitelists typically allow e-mail from everyone in a user's existing address book. Other, unknown senders receive an automated reply, asking them to take further action, such as explain who they are. Or senders may be asked to identify a partially obscured image of a word. A person can make out the word, but automated spammer software can't.
[LinuxSecurity.com]
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Sunday, 17. November 2002
EU-Rat will Anti-Hacker-Gesetzgebung verschärfen
Geht es nach dem Willen des Rats der Europäischen Union, drohen Sicherheitsprüfern im IT-Bereich und gutwilligen Hackern bald dieselben Strafen wie Cyberterroristen. In einer Stellungnahme zum umstrittenen Rahmenbeschluss der EU-Kommission zu Angriffen auf Informationssysteme, die heise online vorliegt, plädiert die Vertretung der EU-Mitgliedstaaten in Brüssel für eine gravierende Verschärfung des Kommissionsvorschlags. Auf Druck von Ländern wie Frankreich, Portugal, Großbritannien, Griechenland und Spanien wurde aus einem der Kernparagraphen der Vorlage, dem Artikel 3, das Privileg für Security-Experten zum freien Testen von Systemen gestrichen.
Übrig blieb allein die Formulierung: "Mitgliedsstaaten sollen mit Hilfe der notwendigen Maßnahmen sicherstellen, dass der absichtliche, nicht erlaubte, ganz oder teilweise erfolgende Zugang zu Informationssystemen strafrechtlich verfolgt werden kann." Die Definition von "Informationssystem" ist dabei denkbar weit gefasst und bezieht sich auf "Computersysteme und elektronische Kommunikationsnetzwerke sowie die durch sie bereitgehaltenen, verarbeiteten, empfangenen oder übertragenen Daten." "Nicht erlaubt" wird -- kaum stärker eingrenzend -- näher erläutert als "nicht durch den Besitzer oder Rechteinhaber des Systems autorisierter Zugang". Deutschland, Österreich und Italien wandten sich zwar gegen die Neufassung, konnten sich mit ihrem Votum allerdings nicht durchsetzen.
Experten fürchten nun, dass die Sicherheit des Netzes durch die verschärfte Klausel beeinträchtigt werden könnte. So wirft das Ratspapier, das in der zweiten Novemberhälfte in Brüssel weiter verhandelt wird, etwa die Frage auf, ob das Aufdecken von Schwachstellen selbst dann strafrechtlich relevant würde, wenn Systemadministratoren keine oder nur äußerst unzureichende Schutzvorkehrungen getroffen haben. Eine klare Festlegung des Gesetzgebers erscheint hier vor allem angesichts der sich in letzter Zeit häufenden Fälle notwendig, in denen findige Nutzer mit Cracker-, Einbruchs- und Diebstahlvorwürfen konfrontiert werden. So wurde jüngst etwa der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters vorgeworfen, sich durch die Eingabe einer noch nicht verlinkten Webadresse unrechtmäßiger Weise in den Besitz börsenrelevanter Informationen gebracht zu haben. Die Online-Versicherung HUK24 rief die Polizei, als Datenschutzexperten auf ähnliche Weise einer umfangreichen, vollkommen ungesichert im Web vorgehaltenen Kundenliste auf die Spur kamen. Nun drohen paradoxerweise nicht der nachlässigen Firma, sondern den Aufdeckern der klaffenden Lücke strafrechtliche und berufliche Konsequenzen.
In seinen Vorüberlegungen zur Änderung des Rahmenbeschlusses schreibt der Rat zwar, dass eine "Überkriminalisierung vermieden" werden müsse. Kleinere Vorfälle sollten nicht tragisch genommen werden. "Autorisierte Personen wie legitime private oder geschäftliche Nutzer, Manager, Controller und Netzwerkbetreiber" sollten genauso wenig ins Visier der Ermittler geraten wie "Personen innerhalb der Firma oder Externen, denen die Erlaubnis zum Testen der Sicherheit eines Systems gegeben wurde". Doch die gute Absicht der Verfasser des Papiers wird durch die dann folgenden Artikel weitgehend ad absurdum geführt.
Lebenslange Haftstrafen, wie sie das US-Repräsentantenhaus für böswillige Angreifer in besonders schweren Fällen befürwortet, sieht der EU-Rat zwar bislang nicht vor. Auf das Eindringen in Informationssysteme sollen mit ein bis zwei Jahren Gefängnis aber dennoch recht empfindliche Bußen stehen. Zusätzlich oder alternativ sollen die Mitgliedsstaaten Geldstrafen implementieren. Auf das Cracken oder Stören von IT-Systemen im Rahmen einer kriminellen Organisation oder in Fällen, in denen ein Angriff auf kritische nationale Infrastrukturen zielte oder substanziellen ökonomischen oder physischen Schaden anrichtete, stehen laut Plan des Rats mindestens zwei bis fünf Jahre Gefängnis. EU-Ländern soll es zudem überlassen bleiben, noch schärfere Strafen zu verhängen. Als Umsetzungsfrist für die strafrechtlichen Vorgaben ist weiterhin der 31.12.2003 im Gespräch. [heise]
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AU: NSW terror laws increase wiretapping, detention powers
NSW state police will be given increased wiretapping powers and the ability to interrogate suspects without a lawyer present, under a new government anti-terrorism plan. The new laws, which will be announced in parliament on Tuesday, will also allow the use of military forces at civilian utilities.
Under Premier Bob Carr's anti-terrorist strategy, NSW police will be given enhanced powers to investigate and detain terrorist suspects.
It will include electronic surveillance of... [zem]
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