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Computer Security Weekly, March 6, 2000

Mar 6, 2000

Apologies for the error last week, but this week for sure. (At least, so I'm told.) For those in the Vancouver, BC, area, CBC Radio's Afternoon Show will be having a series on computer security this week. I'm supposed to be slated for Thursday afternoon at 1740H. For those not in Vancouver, you should be able to get the feed in RealAudio if you search around on the site.

http://vancouver.cbc.ca/afternoonshow/

DoubleClick has reacted, rather significantly, to the outrage over plans to link cookie and site visit information with a database of identification information. The CEO has issued a statement that such plans are on indefinite hold, and will remain so until there is an agreement between industry and government on privacy issues.

http://www.doubleclick.net/company_info/... http://www.thestandard.com/article/displ...

As with Windows NT 4, users have found that quotas can be significantly exceeded under Windows 2000. So far security implications would appear to be minimal, except for denial of service actions.

Japan seems to have been hit hardest by Leap Day, with one exception. The Montreal, Quebec, civic taxation department had to essentially shut down on February 29th. Actually, it wasn't a Leap Day bug, but an undetected Y2K bug. Deadline for tax filing has been extended as a result.

In the ongoing DDoS attacks story, the FBI, itself, has been hit. In addition, Microsoft seems to have been hit with a very mild SYN flood.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/367495.asp?cp1...

The UK's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill is going for second reading, even as I type. Due to the rather bizarre nature of this piece of legislation, once it goes into effect, it will be impossible to even talk about it. Privacy types are understandably concerned, but don't seem to have been able to effect the course of the bill.

http://www.stand.org.uk/ripnotes/

There is a new Freenet in the works. Not the original Free-Net that inspired so many community access and information networks, but a work in progress that hopes to be able to lead to an anonymous published system for the Internet. If you have Java 1.1, you can try out the beta test version.

mailto:rslade@vcn.bc.ca
mailto:rslade@sprint.ca
mailto:robertslade@usa.net
mailto:p1@canada.com

http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm

http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~rslade/rms.htm

http://www97.pair.com/robslade/

Robert Slade's Guide to Computer Viruses, 0-387-94663-2, (800-SPRINGER)

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