Madness #01 17 февраля 2001

Review - press review on the materials Russian periodicals.

              PRESS REVIEW

(C) Stranger


  We offer you a little
Review by me on the materials
Russian periodicals. (It turns out that printed newspapers, 
too, sometimes you can find useful or interesting 
information:)). 


  "Komsomolskaya Pravda" reported the existence of SORM in 
Russia - a system of technical means to facilitate operational 
search activities, which allows you to control virtually all 
current channels of information, including INTERNET, telephone 
lines - conventional and cellular, pagers, 'etc. It is assumed 
that the system prednaznachetsya length vyyavliniya and crime 
prevention in high- technologies. how the system works

to horrible - with a special computer program is made
scanning information transmitted by
the presence in it of certain keywords, and the results of the 
scan is determined by the merits whether the text (if text) 
attention from the intelligence services or is it another 
declaration of love sent to another virtual Romeo.Pravda, it is 
unclear how coded information to verify, because

does not take a genius to write a program-cipher, which will 
encode the information in this way ("let no way, and object, 
like a candle ";-) ), Which decode it without the key would be 
rather difficult. 

And the following article from the same "Komsomolskaya Pravda"
quote entirely.


             Cyberterrorism

  CHINA declared a War - until the last

               COMPUTER

  U.S. intelligence agencies no less than our
concerned about computer literacy prestupnikov.Po According to 
the Director of Infrastructure Protection FBI Michael Vetisa, 
modern technologies allow kiberterroristam implemented in a 
network of state agencies, to block the work of entire 
departments, to provoke accidents and conduct illegal 
propaganda. 

  Cyberterrorism has become a threat
National bezopasnosti.Ved Internet
available to almost everyone and is a pleasure not so 
dorogo.Poetomu virtual terrorism has no borders, and "sabotage" 
can occur anywhere in shara.Prichem targets criminals can 
become both civilian and military obekty.Tak, in February 1999 
a group of hackers from taking control of the British satellite 
communications, and managed to repel him with great difficulty. 

Ed>> Less beak had to click, to think less about the fictional 
"troubles 2000 and switch to the very real ...



  Particular danger in the opinion of the American
security services represent vzlomshiki network, launching of 
viruses into the World Wide Web. 

Ed>> I can not be silent! Why the crackers? Run the virus can 
be anyone, even having access to quite legitimately.



  For example, the infamous "love bug" - a virus I
LOVE YOU, which is sent by e-mail,
caused the damage at 10 billion dollars, and it
comparable to the annual budget of a small
country.

Ed>> Well, on the I LOVE YOU will still be
discussed below.


  A group of hackers, Legion of the underground went on to all: 
in retaliation for penalty of two computer criminals

China is to announce a virtual war Pekinu.Srazhenie seems to be 
going to full destruction of all computer systems

opponent.


  But the newspaper had published COMPUTERWORLD
rating of the most damaging viruses of 2000, compiled by 
Sophos. In their opinion, LOVE BUG is only the second

line rating, and the first is KAKWORM, who quietly managed to 
create a lot of problems users INTERNET EXPLORER and MS-OUTLOOK.


Ed>> It seems that not only in Russia there are people who 
works melkosofta cause an attack of heartburn. While on the 
other hand, knows exactly where it was created virus ...



  And now he is rating:

  VBS/KAKWORM...........17%

  VBS/LOVELETTER........14.5%

  W32/APOLOGY-B.........8.9%

  WM97/MARKER...........6.5%

  W32/PRETTY............5.6%

  VBS/STAGES-A..........3.5%

  W32/NAVIDAD...........3.4%

  W32/SKA-HAPPY99.......2.3%

  WM97/THUS.............2.1%

  XM97/JINI.............2.0%

  Other ................ 34.2%


  In the same paper is a statement INTEL Corporation that by 
the year 2005 will bring the clock speed of processors 
manufactured by them, up to 10 GHz (gigahertz, if someone does 
not understand). It seems they do not give rest laurels 
SVChpechey inventors, and they decided they pereplyunut.Kotlety 
lying near with such a computer would be fried in three

times faster than a microwave oven "SAMSUNG" ...


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