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Interesting News & Articles, Oct '98

- From Cold War to Cyber War?
- Glenn and shuttle crew arrive for launch training
- Actors Roddy McDowall, Gene Autry die
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CYBER WARS

From Cold War to Cyber War? A ZDNN News special.  It's entirely possible the battles of the future may well be fought on the Internet. Inter@ctive Week's Will Rodger examines the issues on the table, talks to the military and government officials who will be in the center of the digital war effort, and looks at the fall-out for companies and consumers.  CLICK HERE FOR MORE

U.S. Cyberdefense Structure

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President Bill Clinton Commander In Chief  
Richard Clarke National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection & Recommends policies to president
Critical Infrastructure Coordination Group (CICG) Identifies major information security issues.
Includes undersecretaries for State, Treasury, Justice, Defense, Transportation, Central Intelligence and other cabinet agencies.		 Makes recommendations to National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection &
CICG Subgroups Identifies security issues in major sectors of defense and economy:
  • Information & Communications (Commerce)
  • Banking and finance (Treasury)
  • Emergency law (FBI/Justice)
  • Internal security (FBI/Justice) Foreign affairs (State)
  • Water supply (EPA)
  • Aviation, Highways, Mass Transit, Pipelines, Rail, Waterways (Transportation)
  • Electric power, oil, gas (Energy)
  • Government services (FEMA)
  • Emergency fire services (FEMA)
  • Public health (HHS)
Makes recommendations to Critical Infrastructure Coordination Group.
Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office Acts as staff for national coordinator of security. Develops policy papers, evangelizes. Reports to National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection & Counter terrorism
Information Sharing And Assessment Centers To be established in conjunction with private enterprise, to assist in development of plans to protect sectors of the economy. Works with, but does not report to, National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection &
National Infrastructure Protection Center Investigates threats to national information security, develops data on nature of threats, recommends actions to take. Reports to FBI and National Security Agency, which each report to president

Go to ZDNN Special Report: Cyber Wars

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Glenn and shuttle crew arrive for launch training

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - John Glenn and his space shuttle crew flew to NASA's Kennedy Space Center Tuesday for a countdown rehearsal, part of final preparations for the 77-year-old senator's return to space later this month. The seven-member crew arrived at the Florida space port at sunset. It is their last training session at the launch site before the planned Oct. 29 blastoff of shuttle Discovery. Glenn, who made history in 1962 when he became the first American to orbit the earth, persuaded NASA to let him fly in space again to conduct geriatric research. At 77 he will become the world's oldest astronaut.

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Actors Roddy McDowall, Gene Autry die

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Roddy McDowall, the British-born actor who starred as a child in "Lassie Come Home" and as an adult in "Planet of the Apes," died Saturday at his home of cancer, associates said. Gene Autry, the original singing cowboy, who went from yodeling and strumming a guitar to becoming one of America's richest men, died Friday of cancer. The news that McDowall, 70, had been terminally ill with cancer shocked Hollywood when it became public two weeks ago. Autry, whose fortune was estimated at more than $350 million, was 91 and died at his home in North Hollywood. He was bedridden for a month.
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