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Affidavit lays out electronic trail that led to hacker Court records released this week not only tell how investigators were able to track a teen hacker from a defaced California Web site to his home here, it also provides insight into the footprints we all leave when we travel the Internet. The District Court of Southern Carroll County on Friday made public the affidavit filed by law enforcement for the arrest of confessed hacker Dennis M. Moran,
17, who goes by the online alias Coolio. The record details an
investigation that began Dec. 14, 1999. That's when Ralph LachRidge, director of DARE America, filed a report with Los Angeles police afterthe defacement of the anti-drug organization's Website. http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=6894
Hacker blocks access to state Legislature Internet page An unidentified hacker using the name "fox" broke into the Alabama Legislature's Internet home page over the weekend and blocked public access to it for nearly 60 hours. Jeff Woodard, an aide to House Speaker Seth Hammett, said he found the page blocked when he tried to access it Monday morning after being notified by the state Finance Department that hackers had broken into it. "The page was blank, just a white screen with black letters on the top left that said, 'shut down by fox,'" Woodard said. http://www.al.com:80/news/birmingham/Mar2000/14-e410848b.html
Feds: Get more secure or else
The tech industry has a choice: Develop real proposals for protecting consumer privacy and network security or stand back and watch the government do it. That was the blunt message delivered by U.S. Federal Trade Commissioner Orson Swindle here Tuesday at the Global Internet Summit, a gathering of more than
900 tech leaders and government officials to address policy
concerns in the digital age. "It's going to be your way or the government's way. Your choice," Swindle said. "I would urge every CEO in this country to personally inspect their company's privacy policy." http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2462114,00.html
Anti-spam e-mail suit tossed out
In the war of words over unsolicited commercial e-mail, better known as spam, an Oregon man has won a victory over the state of Washington. But the battle may not be over, as the attorney general ponders an appeal. The victory came when King County Superior Court Judge Palmer Robinson dismissed a case in which the state charged Jason Heckel with violating Washington's anti-spam law. Robinson said the law, generally regarded as the nation's toughest, violates the interstate-commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution. The case against Heckel was the first filed by the state under the 1998 law. The statute was enacted after Internet providers and consumers complained to the Attorney General's Office about the time and money they spent dealing with unsolicited commercial e-mail. http://www.seattletimes.com/news/local/html98/spam_20000314.html
European Union, U.S. Reach Accord on Privacy of Electronic Personal Data The European Union and the U.S. reached an accord on privacy protection for electronic personal data, removing a stumbling block to the development of Internet commerce across the Atlantic. U.S. Undersecretary for Commerce David Aaron and European negotiator John Mogg settled on measures to ensure information sent to the U.S. from the EU will be safeguarded under U.S. law. The new regulations will apply to companies conducting electronic commerce. Another accord will be needed for financial companies. http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?ptitle=Technology%20News&s1=blk&tp=ad_topright_tech&T=markets_fgcgi_content99.ht&s2=blk&b t=ad_bottom_tech&s=69aa8791a483c04969cae2a79fdf8ac0 http://www.idg.net/idgns/2000/03/14/EUAndUSReachDataPrivacy.shtml
Cyber Rattling
As Taiwan heads to the polls, military strategists are bracing for a new-age conflict: civilwar.com. Could China's 'red hackers' disrupt the election? This week the international media will descend on a concrete-walled police-academy auditorium nestled in the suburban hills outside Taipei. It's the digital nerve center for the Taiwan Election Commission and beginning Saturday, millions of votes for Taiwan's next president will be tallied there. But the election won't be the only competition of interest to the Taipei government. Behind the scenes another battle may be raging this one between Taiwanese defense-ministry computer specialists (stationed at five command centers around the island) and "patriotic" mainland saboteurs. Taiwan is concerned that "red hackers," as they call themselves, could try to disrupt the island's computer networks and spoil the election. http://www.newsweek.com:80/nw-srv/printed/int/asia/a17369-2000mar13.htm
IE5/Win2K security patch can lock out legitimate users Microsoft Corp. warned network administrators yesterday to stop distributing a security patch for Internet Explorer 5.0 that could prevent Windows 2000 users from logging in to their computers. Instructions included with the patch, a 128-bit security add-on for Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.0a and 5.0b versions, are incorrect, said a Microsoft spokesman. The error, a command-line "switch," causes an automated installation to replace security files with older versions that will lock users out of their systems after restart. The 128-bit security installations under Windows 9x and Windows NT 4.x aren't affected, the spokesman added. http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/idgnet/000314F756
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