Thanks. But sometimes I’d trade an ability to dig up old links or obscure news trivia for an end to forgetting where I put my keys, getting to the grocery store and then forgetting half the list I had memorized, then rolling out of the store realizing I forgot where I parked the car.
Hoping everybody in Germany stays safe. But this might be like 2001 where we think it is coming from one direction and we get hit from the other. The Hamburg cell was in Germany but it migrated here.
Another summer 2001 parallel . . .
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cyberwar/warnings/index.html#codered
(1-19 = 11/9?)
Code Red was a worm with multiple variants that first appeared in July 2001 and ultimately affected nearly 300,000 computers in the U.S. Exploiting a hole in Microsoft’s IIS Web servers, it was time sensitive based on the date: From days 1-19 of the month the worm would propagate; from days 20-27 it would launch a denial of service attack against a particular site, and from day 27 through the end of the month the worm would “sleep,” dormant in the computer. In Code Red’s first variation, the affected computers were programmed to launch a denial of service attack against the White House Web site at a certain date and time. If the assault worked, the hundreds of thousands of pings would have overwhelmed the Internet in nanoseconds. Richard Clarke, the president’s adviser for cyberspace security, worked with the nation’s Internet providers to thwart the attack by blocking traffic to the White House site. Other Web sites were shut down, however, and replaced by a message that read “Hacked by Chinese.”
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cyberwar/interviews/dick.html
The Nimda attack. How did you hear about it, what was it about? What is the significance?
Nimda was actually more significant, but Nimda frankly didn’t get media attention, mainly because Nimda occurred right after Sept. 11. It was another example of the public/private sector cooperation. I was the director of the National Infrastructure Protection Center. I was up to my neck in responding to the events of Sept. 11 through the command post there at the headquarters. Then right on top of that, the Nimda virus struck.
Fortunately, we had built the kind of communication with the private sector that we were sharing information, pushing information out to the NIPC as to what the corrective actions were. Even with all of that, it proliferated across the world at a far greater rate than Code Red did. It rattled the Internet. But again, demonstrated the flexibility of the Internet — it didn’t come down, but it rattled significantly. It caused billions of dollars of damage, and we still don’t know who proliferated that virus.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE56709E20090709
South Korea, U.S. Web sites down for 3rd day on attack
Wed Jul 8, 2009 11:34pm EDT
Lahore - Pakistan intelligence authorities have warned that the Taliban may hijack airplanes to carry out a terror strike similar to 9/11. Quoting from an intelligence report, a private television channel said that some detained Taliban operatives have revealed that their associates often use commercial airlines operating in the country to travel from place to another, and are on the look out to hijack the airliners to repeat the September 11, 2001 incident.
Intelligence agencies have also asked the concerned authorities to implement certain fundamental changes in the security procedures for commercial airliners to ensure safety of passengers and avoid any untoward incident, The Daily Times reports. Airplanes have become more susceptible to be used for terror strikes ever since the 9/11 incident when four commercial aircrafts of a US airliner were hijacked by Al-Qaeda and deliberately crashed into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon building in Washington.
http://www.aniin.com/v_Details.asp?StoryID=9724
Egypt nabs Palestinian-led terror cell
Jul 9, 2009
Egyptian authorities have arrested 25 al-Qaida-linked terrorists on suspicion of plotting attacks on oil pipelines and ships crossing the Suez Canal. The Egyptian Interior Ministry said the new cell was led by a Palestinian and included 24 Egyptians, mostly engineers and technicians. They planned to use mobile phones to detonate explosives against ships crossing the Canal, the statement said.
The group learned how to make car bombs through communicating with al-Qaida terrorists on jihadi Web sites, according to an Interior Ministry statement. The detainees confessed to funding their activities through contributions from Islamic charities abroad and in one case robbed a jewelry store and murdered its Coptic Christian owner.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443766207&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull