Sergei Borisov, writing for Pravda the Russian news ( propaganda ?) source, writes that ' Israel has to wage war with Palestine not only in the real but also in the virtual world. Israel is forced to repulse a lot of hackers? attacks on the sites of public and commercial organizations. The latter get the most. The firms connected with high technologies, telecommunications, electronic commerce, finances, mass media suffer a lot from the attacks on their web-sites.

Supporters of jailed Russian cryptographer Dmitry Sklyarov will be staging a protest outside the US embassy in London at lunch time on Friday. The Russian software programmer has been held in an Oklahoma prison for the last 16 days, following his arrest at the Def Con hacker conference in Las Vegas.

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) is planning to take him to court on charges of circumventing US copyright with his Advanced eBook processor which allows encrypted Adobe PDF eBooks to be copied.

The Commerce Department's computer networks, which contain some of America's most valuable business secrets, have security holes easily accessible to Internet criminals, federal investigators say. Senior department officials are scheduled to face lawmakers about the problems Friday.