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Microcap & Penny Stocks : JAWS Technologies - NASDAQ (NM):JAWZ -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: j.oil who wrote (1285)	12/1/1998 12:30:00 PM
From: Walter Morton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3086

Do you think JAWZ will hit $1.50 on these news releases of revenue projections?

To: j.oil who wrote (1285)	12/1/1998 2:11:00 PM
From: justaninvestor	Respond to of 3086

Just another breach of security article. These all help to create public awareness. Barrie Einarson Investor Relations bbruin@home.com This From: NZInfoTechWeekly (New Zealand), Monday November 30, 1998 infotech.co.nz All Net Users 'At Risk From Hackers' infotech.co.nz By Heather Wright INTERNET users' personal computers are under threat from hackers, says a research analyst. Patrick Pilcher, research manager for IDC New Zealand, says that while the hacker application Back Orifice has hit the headlines recently for its potential to cripple Internet access providers, anyone with an Internet account is at risk. Back Orifice is a comprehensive hacker application which can be concealed in e-mails and once installed on a computer allows hackers to take control of the machine. "Ignorance is the single biggest danger with this," says Mr Pilcher. Using Back Orifice a hacker can gain access to a personal computer and retrieve Internet access account details and passwords. "It's a malicious piece of software which can be used against anyone with an Internet account for taking systems down or espionage." Back Orifice was used to gain access to Internet access provider The Internet Group recently with 4500 homepages deleted by the hacker. A major New Zealand IT distributor also felt the force of Back Orifice, after opening an e-mail supposedly from a company wishing to have its products sold by the distributor. The company's 3Com firewalls prevented any data going out of the network, limiting damage, but New Zealand InfoTech Weekly understands the company had to pull the plug on its Internet access for a while. Mr Pilcher says signs of a possible "Back Orifice infestation" include computers dialling up Internet access themselves or traffic on the network suddenly increasing. He cautions anyone receiving unsolicited e-mails not to open attachments. "Delete any attachments from unsolicited e-mails." Symantec's Antivirus Research Centre has a download to detect Back Orifice, at www.symantec.com/avcenter/backorifice.html While Mr Pilcher says there is no easy way of saying how widespread Back Orifice is, he says "The potential is significant". Jan Smolnicki, an Internet security expert at PricewaterhouseCoopers, says the hacking of company Internet sites is far more common than thought. "Often companies aren't even aware that they have been broken into," he says. "The development of Internet technology is moving so fast that unforeseen weaknesses are emerging and companies aren't adapting fast enough. "As the use of the Internet to support business functions is still relatively new for the majority of New Zealand businesses, we have found there is a general lack of awareness of the security issues." Mr Smolnicki says Internet security is often an afterthought, or overlooked completely. "Companies often think they are secure because they have a firewall in place or they only use the Internet for e-mail. "The reality is that firewalls are only as good as their configuration and are only one aspect of a security solution." Another product called BUTTSniffer is available as a plug-in utility to guard aid against hacker intrusion. It was developed by an American Internet hacking group called The Cult of the Dead Cow, who developed the Back Orifice application. © Copyright, Wellington Newspapers Limited 1998