Fowarded from: irado furioso com tudo <iradosubdimension.com>

InfoSec News wrote:

> Forwarded from: William Knowles <wkc4i.org>
 
as per another list/friend, it is a big FUD:

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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-widdershinsattrition.org
> [mailto:owner-widdershinsattrition.org] On Behalf Of will taggart
> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 5:43 AM
> To: widdershinsattrition.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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