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Re: Israel under hack attack
From: InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 02:19:29 -0500 (CDT)
Fowarded from: irado furioso com tudo <irado () subdimension com> InfoSec News wrote:
Forwarded from: William Knowles <wk () c4i org>
as per another list/friend, it is a big FUD: :================= This is yet another example of a security firm desperately attempting to generate business in a recession. There have been quite a few FUD stories lately reporting non-news: Hack Attack, How you might be a target: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/04/12/hack.dangers/index.html Experts: Chat rooms a haven for hackers: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/04/10/hackers.chat.rooms/index.html?related Want Free Software? Be prepared for Surprises: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/04/14/tag.along.software.ap/index.html Net blamed for marital breakups: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/04/15/internet.breakup/index.html What these all have in common is that they are "duh" stories written by naive reporters providing free advertisement for some security company/pundit. There is no real news in any of these. Journalists (as I use this term very loosely in reference to the authors of the above articles) really need to do a better job determining if there really is a story. A journalist I know contacted mi2g at one point to ask what methods they use to map web defacement trends and what their sources were. Pretty basic question - verify the facts. Mi2g never responded and she killed the story. We need to have more journalists do this. .sioda. On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Omar K. wrote:
True, the major happenings were at the beginning of the Intifada about one year ago, when there was almost a cyber-intifada movement, and an abundance of script-kiddie tools just made for that cause. It seems that they are quite a bit late in their press release. They contacted my firm, as being a firm from the region, when they were preparing for this press release. They were basically trying to put words in my mouth towards the current situation trying to convince themselves and me that their FUD was true. -----Original Message----- From: owner-widdershins () attrition org [mailto:owner-widdershins () attrition org] On Behalf Of will taggart Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 5:43 AM To: widdershins () attrition org Subject: [Widdershins] FUD... a really poor article... http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1932000/1932750.stm I have been following the exploits of "Egyptian Fighter" on alldas.org anyway, reported defacements have not increased significantly...in fact, most of the people that I was studying a year ago have dropped off the scene, the WFD, m0sad, the (pakistani) Silver Lords, etc...I imagine that they all just went to college or got jobs and lost interest...which I think is pretty common. and compared to what was happening at the beginning of the intifada, what is happening now is unimpressive.
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