------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: "ITNS administrator" <admin@intellitech.cz> Organization: IntelliTech s.r.o. To: ITNS/INT.subscribers@traveller.cz (Czech & Slovak republics) Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 08:38:46 +0000 Subject: Information Warfare =========== Web sites, information services, associations =========== - Air Chronicles (US Air Force Web site) => http://www.cdsar.af.mil/ - Airborne Electronic Warfare Systems Department => http://www.code802.nwscc.sea06.navy.mil/ - C4I HORIZON '95 => http://infosphere.safb.af.mil/~rmip/h95top.htm - DISA Center for INFOSEC (CISS). ("The Center for Information Systems Security's (INFOSEC) (CISS) goal is to create and manage a unified, fully integrated information systems security program for all Defense Information Infrastructure (DII) systems. CISS acts as the focal point for assuring availability, integrity and confidentiality of DII Automated Information Systems (AIS) information.") => http://www.disa.mil/ciss/ciss.html - Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC ) online guide to privacy resourcesj. (EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, DC. For more information email info@epic.org) => http://cpsr.org/cpsr/privacy/epic/privacy_resources.faq - Federation of American Scientists (FAS) (The). (FAS conducts analysis and advocacy on science, technology and public policy, including nuclear weapons, arms sales, biological hazards, secrecy, and space policy. FAS is a privately-funded non-profit policy organization whose Board of Sponsors includes half of America's living Nobel Laureates.) => http://www.clark.net/pub/gen/fas/ - Information Warfare => http://www.rain.org/~lonestar/infowar.htm - Information Warfare: The Invisible War => http://www.seas.gwu.edu/student/kimc/ - Information Warfare books and resources from Management Analytics => http://all.net/books/iw/top.html - Institute for the Advanced Study of Information Warfare (IASIW), a virtual nongovernmental organization formed to facilitate an understanding of information warfare with reference to both military and civilian life. => http://www.psycom.net/iwar.1.html - Intelligence reform project => http://www.clark.net/pub/gen/fas/irp/ - Internet Security Issues => http://www.cs.albany.edu/~ault/security/ - Line of Site -- US Military Sites on the Internet (an address book of about 350 URL's pertaining to the US Military. This is a no frills, cut to the heart of the matter, publication, presenting welcome relief for those of us who are tired of wading through pages of photos and descriptors just to find one URL. Listings are in alphabetical order and there is even space for writing in additions or comments. $12.00 plus $3.00 shipping and handling. Periodic updates will be available from the publishers -- electronic transmission is available. Send cash, check or money order to Real Trends, Inc., 9200 Centerway Road, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20879, USA - be sure to include your full mailing address. - National Computer Security Association (NCSA) (NCSA's mission is to foster improvement in all aspects of world- wide digital security, reliability and ethics by providing key services to three principal constituents: end- users of digital technologies, computer and communications industry product developers and vendors, and computer and information security experts.) => http://www.ncsa.com/ - National Military Intelligence Association (NMIA) => http://www.cais.com/NMIA/HomePage.html - National Security Agency (NSA) => http://www.nsa.gov:8080/ - National Technical Information Service (NTIS) => http://www.fedworld.gov/ntis/ntishome.html - Naval Postgraduate School (The): Joint C4I Systems Curriculum => http://www.stl.nps.navy.mil/c4i/ - Office of the Director of C4I (Information Systems for Command, Control, Communications, and Computers) => http://www.army.mil/disc4-pg/disc4.htm - Reto E. Haeni's Information Warfare Home Page => http://www.seas.gwu.edu/student/reto/infowar/info- war.html - S.D. James' Information Warfare Home Page => http://vislab-www.nps.navy.mil/~sdjames/info_war.html - Security (Web site with resources) => http://www.southwind.net/~miked/security.html - Third Wave Revolution (The): Netwars and Activists, Power on the Net => http://www.teleport.com/~jwehling/OtherNetwars.html - U.S. Air Force Air Intelligence Agency => http://www.dtic.dla.mil/airforcelink/pa/factsheets/Air_Intelli gence_Agency.html - U.S. Army Digitization Master Plan =>http://fotlan5.fotlan.army.mil/..ADMP/adotoc.htm - U.S. Army Research Laboratory => http://www.brl.mil/EA/ARL_homepage.html - U.S. Navy Warfare Systems and Sensors Research Directorate => http://www.nrl.navy.mil/code.5000.html - USA FA 53 (Serving Uniformed Service Automation and Acquisition Professionals, Systems Automation) Home Page => http://www.seas.gwu.edu/seas/fa53/index.html =========== Electronic mailing list, newsgroup archives =========== - C4I Professionals Mailing List, Naval Postgraduate School => http://dubhe.cc.nps.navy.mil/~rdthrash/c4i- pro.html - C4I-Pro Archive => http://www.stl.nps.navy.mil/lists/c4i-pro/date.html - Computer Underground Digest (CUD) (an open forum dedicated to sharing information among computerists and to the presentation and debate of diverse views.) => http://www.utopia.com/mailings/cud/ - Cypherpunks archive by thread => http://infinity.nus.sg/cypherpunks/ - Best of Security List Archive by thread => http://www.connectnet.net.au/BoS/ - Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems (Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, moderator The RISKS Forum is a moderated digest. Its USENET equivalent is comp.risks) => http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/ - Privacy, Security, Crypto, Surveillance archive (from EFF) http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/ =========== Conferences, Expositions =========== - InfoWarCon '96 => http://www.ncsa.com/infowar1.html - InfoWarCon (Europe) '96 ("Defining the European Perspective" will be the theme of this year's InfoWarCon to be held in Brussels, Belgium May 22 - 24, 1996. Sponsors include National Computer Security Association; Winn Schwartau, President and CEO, Interpact, Inc.; and Robert David Steele, Chairman & CEO, Open Source Solutions Group. Co-Sponsors include: IBM Internet Security Systems; Jane's Information Group Network Systems, Inc.; and Norman Data Defense. Overview: Information Warfare represents a global challenge that faces all late-industrial and information age nation states. It also represents the easiest and cheapest way for less developed nation-states and religious or political movements to anonymously and grievously attack major nations and international corporations. Not only are the definitions of InfoWar unclear, but they span many areas and disciplines. This conference will examine the European perspectives on all three classes of Information Warfare while contributing some American lessons learned, mistakes made and successes enjoyed. The conference will look at these three areas of interest: Class I: Personal Privacy Class II: Industrial and Economic Spying and Warfare Class III: Global Conflict, Terrorism and the Military) => http://www.ncsa.com/iweuro96.html =========== Infowar product vendors and service providers =========== - enterWorks.com (Virtual DB) - Omnisec International (Carries out security checks on CIA agents.) - Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) => http://www.saic.com/copyright.html - Security Dynamics, RSA Data Security => http://www.securid.com/ID104.4221/index.html =========== Infowar, security products and services =========== - Devices now in field testing with the U.S. Marines, according to Ellison C. Urban, Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in his paper "The Information Warrior" (http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/publicaccess/1195inf1.html) are described as follows: The Tamer: The Tamer system consists of a global positioning system (GPS) receiver, a liquid-crystal display (LCD), thumb-input devices, data ports, and software for intelligence reports -- all in a single module integrated with a standard-issue Melios laser rangefinder. In a future version the LCD will be eliminated and a video capability added; an intelligence report form filled out by the soldier and automatically transmitted by a geopositioning satellite will be superimposed on the scene through the viewfinder. VoiceMap: Via the VoiceMap (or a similar system, Pathfinder, shown on the Web site), the user's location is fixed by a GPS receiver and then displayed on an electronic map, where it is compared with the user's itinerary. Maps can be scrolled or scaled with voice commands, as well as updated with tactical data sent from other units by radio link. In future, the attached computer will have an artificial intelligence capability, permitting it to respond to complex queries, such as "What is the best route to way station Delta?" VuMan: The VuMan is a body-hugging computer with an easily manipulated circular dial that displays animations of repair procedures, replacing thousands of pages of maintenance manuals. Soldiers simultaneously see both their equipment and the computer information through a head-up display. MARSS: The Maintenance and Repair Support System (MARSS) is the first application planned for an electronic vest called the bodyLAN, which provides a wireless local- area network that interconnects with personnel and their systems. A MARSS-equipped soldier wearing the vest can walk up to a piece of equipment in need of repair -- a tank, say -- and have it disgorge its self-diagnostics by radio to the soldier's on-board computer. That computer, linked to other devices, sorts the information and links up to logistics stations in the rear or around the world. The bodyLAN vest presents both potential benefits and potential problems.). The MARSS project is the first application of a central element planned for all TIAs: a wireless local-area network -- called a bodyLAN -- in a thin undervest to be worn by every soldier. The vest will eliminate redundant electronic components and link the remaining devices (and those of other troops) via a common standard. But being in such intimate contact, as it were, with such a device adds risks. - Management Analytics Info-Sec Products (Products listed in late April include the following: Internet Tester: Internet Vulnerability Tests for Unix ... Tracer: Automated Audit Software ... Daemons: Secure http and gopher daemons ... ManAlMail: Sendmail reciever replacement ... Tracker: Tracks Down Sites ... Access: Centralized SetUID Program ... Menus: Secure Menu system and BBS ... One- Time-Pass: Hardware-free one-time password schemes ... Watcher: Watches and analyzes log files in real-time ... Mantra: Generates and tests passwords ... Permit: Verifies and corrects access control settings ... Checkers: Crypto- checksum and other integrity checking systems ... Integrity Toolkit: An integrity shell for Unix ... Shell Utilities: Useful utilities for programming the shell) => http://all.net/products/top.html - Semiomap a Tool to Monitor Internet (Claude Vogel, CEO, claude.vogel@devinci.fr, fax +33 1 41377099, Semio Corp., 137 S. Robertson Blvd. Suite 103, Beverly Hills, CA 90211, USA, fax: +1 310 888 8785) => http://www.indigo-net.com/intel.html