general internet news - 14 November

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

Crime gangs extort money with hacking threat
Evidence of a new type of international extortion racket
has emerged with revelations that blackmailers have got
millions from companies with threats to cripple websites.

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1066565805264&p=1057562182635

Investigators comb Web for terror clues
Cyber investigators are scouring the World Wide Web for
clues on any future suicide bomb attacks, deploying
satellites and other high-tech wizardry to hone in on
suspicious Web surfing activity.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=3805894

Internet isn't to blame for online fraud
Consumer carelessness rather than technology is the cause
of a lack of trust in ecommerce and increased levels of
online fraud, according to research.
 http://www.vnunet.com/News/1148478

.us - Security execs form advisory group
Ten top security executives plan to announce a new group on
Wednesday that is aimed at helping companies protect their
information systems better, CNET News.com has learned.
Called the Global Council of CSOs, the group will bring
together chief security officers from nine companies and
one government agency.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5105962.html

Is cyberterrorism a phantom menace?
Gartner's information security and risk research director
has dismissed cyberterrorism as a "theory."
 http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-5105732.html

Zombie machines fuel cybercrime wave
The rapid growth of broadband home computer connections may
inadvertently fuel what police suspect could be the start
of a new crime wave--cyberblackmail.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5106171.html

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2003-11-12-zombie-blackmail_x.htm

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3805770&section=news

.us - DHS plans cybersecurity summit
Officials in the Information Analysis and Infrastructure
Protection Directorate of the Homeland Security Department
plan to announce details of the upcoming Cyber Security
Summit soon, a department spokesman said. 
 http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/24151-1.html

.nz - ISG Applauds Decision in Child Porn Case (news
release)
The Internet Safety Group (ISG) today applauded the
decision in the Waitakere District Court by Judge Philip
Recordon in the case of child pornography offender Stephen
John Laing.
 http://www.netsafe.org.nz/isgnews/isgnews_childporn.asp

.nz - Cruel email chain-letter targeting kids (news
release)
The Internet Safety Group (ISG) today announced that a
chain-letter is circulating among New Zealand children and
young people with a very specific death threat and a grisly
photo that the email describes as being of a dead child. 
The creator of the email threatens that if the sender
doesn’t immediately forward the email to 15 people then ‘I
will appear by your bed with a knife and kill you.’  The
email usually has the subject line ‘This is really wrong.’
 http://www.netsafe.org.nz/isgnews/isgnews_chainletter.asp

.jp - Cops break huge yakuza kiddy porn ring
A massive crackdown on a yakuza-run kiddy porn ring has
resulted in the arrest of eight men and seizure of tens of
thousands of pedophile videos, police said Tuesday.

http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20031111p2a00m0dm015000c.html

.at - Man tried to prompt suicides for sexual kicks
Austrian police say they have arrested a man suspected of
encouraging people over the Internet to kill themselves for
his own sexual pleasure.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=3796182

.us - Senate Bill Targets Internet Pirates
People who steal copies of films and albums and post them
on the Internet before their official release dates could
face felony charges under legislation scheduled to be
introduced Thursday in the U.S. Senate.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33028-2003Nov12.html

Spam set to soar this Christmas
Net filtering firms report that senders of spam are already
starting to change the messages they send in an attempt to
cash in on the festive season.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3258179.stm

Ireland implements new spam and cookies law
New rules to deal with unsolicited commercial e-mail,
cookies and other privacy issues in electronic
communications became effective in Ireland this week,
implementing the European Privacy and Electronic
Communications Directive.

http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=irelandimplementsn1068646201

The Future of Email
While people may debate the death of email, there is no
question that many email servers are already overloaded
with spam. Current spam solutions are beginning to address
the problem, but so far they all suffer from the arms race
issue - as fast as we come up with new ways to fight spam,
spammers are finding new ways to deliver it to us. While
the functionality of email will certainly continue, the
current system must change. When the change comes, it will
deliver the future of email to Microsoft.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/370_0_1_0_C

Singapore calls for chatroom crackdown
SINGAPORE has urged internet access providers to follow
Microsoft's lead in clamping down on unregulated chatrooms
to prevent them from becoming havens for sex predators.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,7833641%5E15342%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html
 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031111/323/edlj4.html

Korea: Beeping Prevents Peeping
Camera phones, easily concealed, can be used to take
pictures the shooter has no business taking. This is a
particular problem in South Korea, which now decrees that
all new handsets emit a beep whenever a picture is taken.
 http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,61197,00.html

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3803009

Australia suffers billion-dollar identity fraud
Identity fraud is costing the Australian economy more than
A$1bn a year, according to a government report.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39117821,00.htm

.au - Broadband 'too expensive'
An inquiry into Internet provision has heard that
Australians are paying too much for broadband access
because of a lack of competition.
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s988512.htm

Broadband Britain nears three-million milestone

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,39020336,39117828,00.htm

http://www.silicon.com/networks/broadband/0,39024661,39116882,00.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/insideit/story/0,13270,1083080,00.html

SCO, IBM battle heats up
Subpoenas are flying in the high-profile lawsuit between
The SCO Group and IBM, as both companies try to buttress
their legal claims by turning to third parties for
information.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5106450.html

http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031112.gtscoo1112/BNStory/Technology/

Bangladesh legalises net calls
BANGLADESH has legalised internet telephone services that
provide cheap international calls through computer modems.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,7845203%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Microsoft, EU square off
The software giant and the European Commission face off at
closed-door hearings on EU regulators' charges that
Microsoft abused its dominance of desktop computer
operating systems.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5106172.html
 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/13/technology/13soft.html

Microsoft Clashes with EU Regulators

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3808282

Microsoft to counter EU charges

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=3812560

'Microsoft thinks search engines are the key to internet
use: it's building Google-style functionality into its next
operating system'
The search engine market just got a lot more vicious. The
tales have begun to leak out that earlier this year
Microsoft simply went along to Google and offered to buy
it, for upwards of $10bn.

http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/features/story.jsp?story=462989

.au - Bill cracks down on pokie advertising
Gaming operators that advertise poker machines will be
fined $2000 and risk losing their licence under new laws
proposed in State Parliament yesterday.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/06/1068013329489.html

.uk - Schools website launched
A new interactive schools directory is being launched for
children across Northern Ireland to share their creativity
on the internet.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/3262201.stm

Australia slams door on IT immigrants
Australia's revised Migration Occupations in Demand list
(MODL) has dropped all information and communication
technology (ICT) specializations.

http://ups.asia.cnet.com/c/as.ch.nt.stories/asia.cnet.com/newstech/industry/0,39001143,39157646,00.htm


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