Tuesday, September 30, 2003

AT&T developing early warning tool, by Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World. Worms don't always fire off and work perfectly. We see all the test attempts. We see the fizzled versions of stuff in advance, says Ed Amoroso, chief information security officer at AT&T. We're trying to change the nature of our relationship with customers so when we see . . . indicators of something that fizzled, we tell everybody. . . . Network attacks are clearly on the rise, says Hossein Eslambolchi, AT&T CTO, CIO and president of AT&T Labs in a recent conference call with the media. We have seen more attacks in the last six months than we've seen in the last 10 years. . . . We do [traffic analysis] better than anybody, Amoroso says. By traffic analysis, I mean pulling information from the network such as statistics and routing information. . . . It turns out that building security tools around traffic analysis is as good a theme as any.' 3:10:49 PM    comment []

Quotable quote: Folk-rock-with-sitar is a very lightly traveled subgenre For more of Richie Unterberger, talking folk-rock and about his book, Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock, check out the conversation in The Well's Inkwell conference. Or, to see what's newest, go to http://www.well.com/inkwell/ . 1:10:31 PM    comment []

E-Spying on Your Lover Could Be Illegal - Experts, by Elinor Mills Abreu, Reuters. A company calling itself Lover Spy has begun offering a way for jealous lovers -- and anyone else -- to spy on the computer activity of their mates by sending an electronic greeting, the equivalent of a thinking-of- you card, that doubles as a bugging device. Computer security experts said the Lover Spy service and software appeared to violate U.S. law, but also said the surveillance program pointed to an increasingly common way for hackers to seize control of computers. 12:10:21 PM    comment []

China looks into Windows code. (CNET) The Source Code Browsing Lab--set up in Beijing last week--is part of an existing government-run software site, the China Testing and Certification Center for Information Security Products, according a report in the People's Daily newspaper. 11:10:22 AM    comment []

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