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US groups target hackers
From: William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 23:14:14 -0500
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3POQIFU8C&live=true&tagid=ZZZC00L1B0C&subheading=information%20technology By Dan Lerner in Washington Published: May 29 2000 18:32GMT | Last Updated: May 30 2000 00:56GMT Information technology companies once relied on anti-virus software and consultancies to protect themselves from malicious hacker attacks. But now, US companies are set to form an industry self-help group to provide early warning of online assaults. The group, known as an "information sharing mechanism," will enable high technology companies to share data anonymously about software vulnerabilities and systems attacks. The mechanism, to be launched in the next few months, may even give participants access to classified government information. The concept has won ready support from lawmakers, as well as the industry. Politicians have been calling for public and private sector collaboration on computer security issues, adding to calls by President Bill Clinton in a 1998 directive. The information sharing system, developed by members of the Information Technology Association of America, would almost certainly have helped prevent the "distributed denial of service attacks" (DDOS) which crippled well known websites in February, said Harris Miller, president of the association. The network is similar to an existing system run by the financial sector to protect trading systems and money transfer networks. The telecommunications industry also runs an advance warning centre to share information on potential attacks against infrastructure. [...] *-------------------------------------------------* "Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." Gen. Alfred. M. Gray, USMC --------------------------------------------------- C4I Secure Solutions http://www.c4i.org *-------------------------------------------------* ISN is sponsored by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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