Asymmetric forces are facing each other  in the web, a new wave of ideologically aimed attacks is concerning the digital ground.Last operation by Israel Defence Forces that broke into the Gaza strip after a soldier was kidnapped by a Palestinian armed group, provoked a strong reaction in arab world, and digital answer came soon: Hundreds of websites were defaced by Team Evil, a Moroccan hacker crew that posted a message supporting Palestinian counter reaction.

Stockolm – Unbelievable, isn’t it? The closing up of ThePirateBay, the popular P2P Swedish website, was agreed by local Government and Hollywood Studios, as the Internet Community suspected. The issue of Pirate Bay, that has already been reported by Zone-H has come out again after the Swedish newspaper SVT.se published the whole text of a letter that was delivered to the Secretary of State and to the Minister of Justice.

The letter is signed by John G. Malcolm, the director of the MPAA anti-piracy division, who formally expresses his concern about the fact that Sweden has become a sort of “Paradise for International Piracy”.

He gets on hinting at the requests by American Embassy to Swedish Government to stop the activity of ThePirateBay and then he alludes to the fact that Sweden should safeguard national reputation that could be shadowed by the heavy accuse of tolerating with crimes against intellectual property. This was the sparkle that made the fire burst out: ThePirateBay was temporarily closed and the website server was seized...

According to a legislative measure suggested and supported by the Australian IT Minister, Helen Coonan, VoIP service providers in kangaroo’s land will have to keep interception channels open for law enforcement.

The initiative which inserts in a federal government action to review the Telecommunication Act, is in line with the U.S. Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), where a specific clause was introduced in order to extend regulation to VoIP services.

On one hand this would be undoubtedly helpful for police and for IT investigators but on the other, experts and professionals in IT Security agree on the point that permanently open interception channels will expose users privacy to the treat of crackers or to the possibility that third-party companies could release private information...

The borders of war to computer crime are getting wider and wider: yesterday the online magazine ZDnet UK dealt with the critics that Lord Northesk, an English conservative member of the Chamber of Lords, moved to UK government about the changes that will be adopted to renew the Computer Misuse Act.

According to Lord Northesk , the Bill that was first approved in 1990, is now worth an update, but the proposals that are up to be debated by the Chamber of Lords are likely to represent a restriction not only for potential cyber criminals, but also for those who have to prevent their damages.

What concerns the opponents to the new measures is the Section 41 of the Bill that would amend the CMA to include a new offence of "making, supplying or obtaining articles for use in computer misuse offences"...

No more time can be wasted in the war to cyber terrorism: this is the general feeling emerging from the G8 Interior, Justice Ministers, and Attorney Generals’ Meeting that took place in Moscow on June 15-16.
The meeting highlighted the urgency of a coordinated effort against international terrorism and all those aspects of cyber crime such as frauds, network security violation and identity theft.

The Internet is a wide and borderless ground, a no man’s land where anybody can meet and exchange information, we all know this, and cyberterrorists know this as well.

According to the Russian Interior Minister, “terrorists increasingly use the cyber space as an information centre that offers detailed instructions on secrecy techniques, on weapons and explosivesmanufacture and use” and developed countries should use all their means to fight against recruitment and training of new activists in terrorist groups...

What’s happening on Chinese battlefront? No war seems to affect Asian territories, but Beijing mobilized its cyber troops and launched a digital attack.

On June 17 2006, a press release denouncing a big bribery scandal was sent out by Taiwan’s Defence Ministry Network. The announcement came from the official source of the Ministry, and  the press soon reported  the news  while outraged comments raised  among citizens. However, the statement was not real: Governmental Security Systems were hacked and the intruder managed in using  official credits to spread out a  fake press release...