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Invoking a 4-year-old federal trade secrets theft law for
the first time in Silicon Valley, federal prosecutors this
week charged a former Intel Corp. engineer with stealing
documents and computer files related to a powerful new
microprocessor expected to be released sometime this summer.
A federal grand jury in San Jose handed up an indictment
Wednesday against Say Lye Ow, a 29-year-old Malaysian
national accused of making off with the Intel secrets before
he left the company in 1998. Ow is charged with violating
the Economic Espionage Act of 1996, which made trade secrets
theft a specific federal crime.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/theft033100.htm
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2500220,00.html
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1616948.html

Hackers again breach German government internet links
The security of German government internet connections was
thrown into question for the second time in a week Thursday.
The internet magazine onlinekosten.de and the Mainz firm
ERODATA said that anybody with internet access had been able
to access the justice ministry server and place pornographic
pictures or pirated software there for access and downloading
by other parties. The report said there was no evidence that
the server had been abused in this way, but the ministry
closed unauthorised access to it Thursday. Germany's ministry
for families hastily modified its Internet web site Wednesday
after the mass circulation daily Bild reported that surfers
reaching the site were offered links leading to pornographic
or sex-service sites. (No web link available)

Hactivists to attack biotech firms
Major biotechnology firms Monsanto Co. and Aventis Co. S.A.
will find themselves in the digital crosshairs starting this
weekend. According to a spokesman for the Electrohippies, a
group that plans Internet-based protests, the two companies
will first be targeted with a straightforward e-mail write
in campaign. But by the end of the week, new denial-of-service
software tools will be distributed and could be aimed at the
Internet operations of both firms. And according to one
security expert, other big-name companies like PepsiCo and
McDonald's could also be targeted.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/389408.asp

New law opens up private data to MI5
Users attending the fifth Scrambling for Safety conference
last week were in for a shock when they gathered in London
to debate the UK government's draft legislation on bugging
communications. Ministers told them in no uncertain terms
that if the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill
is passed, third-party service providers will be obliged
to allow policemen and spooks such as MI5 access to their
clients' communications. And their clients will never know
about it.
http://www.vnunet.com/Analysis/601561

New Worms Pose Danger to PC Users
F-Secure has issued a warning to its customers about two new
widespread worms - Irok and Kak - that it says pose a danger
to PC users around the world. The IT security firm said that
the two new e-mail worms are currently spreading rapidly in
several locations around the world. The Irok and Kak worms
are problematic in that they spread via e-mail as electronic
chain letters, much like the infamous Melissa virus did exactly
a year ago. Technically, the Irok and Kak worms operate in very
different ways, F-Secure said, but both spread via Microsoft
Outlook e-mail and are very widespread right now. The biggest
difference to the end user, the firm said, is that Irok arrives
in an attachment called IROK.EXE, while Kak arrives in a normal
e-mail that apparently has no attachment at all.
http://www.currents.net/newstoday/00/03/31/news2.html

White House To Recover Missing E-Mail
The White House said Thursday that it will undertake a $3
million effort to restore thousands of missing e-mail messages
and search them for information that should have been produced
during criminal and congressional investigations of the Clinton
administration. White House counsel Beth Nolan said the inspection
of about 4,025 backup tapes containing records from the offices
of the president and the vice president should be completed in
approximately 170 days. Under that timetable, the effort should
yield all previously subpoenaed evidence by late September, in
the midst of the fall campaign.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/146693.html

Site Launches Chat Room Basher Lawsuit
Apparently fed up with what it calls "chat room bashing,"
e-commerce firm Computerxpress.com has put its money where
its mouth is, filing a $61 million lawsuit against a group
of people who allegedly talked down the firm's prospects in
online chatrooms. The lawsuit, filed in Riverside County,
Calif., is seeking $1 million dollars in actual damages,
plus $60 million-plus in punitive damages against Lee Jackson,
Barbara Jackson, Tom Mitchell, Doran Mitchell, John Fecteau,
Carol Fecteau, Paul Graham and Wendy Graham. The lawsuit
alleges a string of apparent civil wrongdoing, including
fraud, negligent misrepresentation, negligence, trade libel,
tortuous interference with contractual relations, tortuous
interference with prospective economic advantage, abuse of
process, conspiracy and injunctive relief.
http://www.currents.net/newstoday/00/04/01/news4.html

UK ISP Wins Legal Battle In Spam Wars
A small London Internet firm has taken on Sam Khuri, the man
behind Benchmark Print Supply, a bulk e-mail specialist in
the US, and won. The court settlement involves Atlanta, Ga.
based Benchmark paying the firm, BiblioTech, an undisclosed
sum in damages, as well as committing to pay an extra $1,000
to any individual affected by future spamming activities.
The legal bill for the case, one of the first completed in
the Internet industry, is expected to be large. Benchmark has
agreed to pick up the tab, as part of the settlement. The
court ruling, which technically applies to the US, Newsbytes
notes, actually aims to apply to all Internet users and Internet
service providers (ISPs), and effectively bars Benchmark and/or
Khuri from spamming any Internet user. The case stems from the
launch of BiblioTech's Postmaster e-mail service, which requires
users to undertake not to use the service to spam people's
Internet mailboxes.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/146719.html

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