Active Response

An excellent article on the application of laws to intrusion response (generally regarding physical intrusions of homes/businesses)

S. D. Mitchell and E. A. Banker, "Private Intrusion Response," Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, vol. 11, pp. 700-7

The state of security on the Internet is bad and becoming worse. One reaction to this state of affairs is a behavior termed "Ethical Hacking" which attempts to proactively increase security protection by identifying and patching known security vulnerabilities on systems owned by other parties. Ethical hackers may beta test unreleased software, stress test released software, and scan networks of computers for vulnerabilities.

Discusses information warfare possibilities from North Korea into Australia and other countries

Discusses meeting at SRI to discuss security vulnerabilities in networks

Wired News article on the FBI sting on a Russian hacker - the so-called 'Invita' case. A US federal judge gave the FBI the authority to hack the Russian's computers on Russian soil.

Judge allows FBI to hack russian computer and install keylogger to trace attacks in US

Governments and critical infrastructures rely increasingly on networked computing technologies and are thus ever more vulnerable to cyber-attacks. International law is not fully formed on this issue, but the UN Charter and the laws of armed conflict establish certain baseline rules.

Cyber-attacks and international law
Gregory D Grove, Seymour E Goodman, Stephen J Lukasik. Survival London:Autumn 2000. Vol. 42, Iss. 3, p. 89-103 (15 pp.)
ISSN/ISBN: 00396338

Hacker got into Air Traffic Control system

The news story of the slammer worm infecting a nuke power plant in Ohio and shutting down safety systems

News story about hackers compromising GMU servers with potential identity theft implications