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Microsoft's South African office damaged in bomb blast
A bomb explosion rocked the South African office of
software giant Microsoft today, shattering windows
but causing no injuries, police and a company
spokeswoman said. "It was a bomb attack, there's no
doubt about it. As yet we have no motive or suspects,"
police spokesman Chris Wilken said. Terry Annecke,
marketing director for Microsoft's South African
operations, said the explosion in the upmarket
Johannesburg suburb of Sunninghill had occurred at
around 5 a.m. local time (8 p.m. PT). Police
forensic experts and the bomb squad were at the
scene combing for evidence.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2000111.html
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/085888.htm
Hacker hits Road Runner server;subscribers need new passwords
Houston subscribers to Time Warner Communications'
Road Runner cable-modem Internet service were told
Thursday night to change their passwords after a
hacker broke into an e-mail server. But a glitch
in a computer prevented customers from making the
change Thursday evening. Spokeswoman Kimberly Maki
said the hacker may have gotten access to a database
of e-mail logons and passwords on Wednesday.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/business/568293
Hackers drawn by thrills, challenge, cash
Alexei of St. Petersburg cracked his first program
when he was 12. Frustrated by a game he couldn't
win on his parents' computer, which ran on an Intel
8086 microprocessor, he poked around in the game's
programming to make it easier. Now 20, the technical
institute dropout cracks software to order for
$50 to $200, defeating security measures, so illegal
copies will run on additional computers. He charged
one businessman $50 to crack a $3,000 program for
automating embroidering machines.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cti005.htm
High-tech crooks thrive in Russia
The open-air Gorbushka market is the Alice's Restaurant
of software. You can get anything you want. Laid out
on tables under the trees of a Moscow park - as if at
a huge yard sale - are row upon row of compact discs.
The discs are crammed with pirated versions of expensive
programs worth hundreds or thousands of dollars. Vendors
offer everything from Microsoft's Windows 98 operating
system to computer-assisted-design and voice-recognition
software.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cti004.htm
Can you hack back?
In December, when protesters were rampaging
through Seattle in an attempt to disrupt the
World Trade Organization summit meeting, other
activists were launching a denial of service
(DOS) attack on the WTO Web site. But the WTO's
Web-hosting service spotted the attack and
repelled it, bouncing the flood of page
download requests back to the origin server,
which was run by a group calling itself
electrohippies.
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/01/hack.back.idg/index.html
Female of the Species
Hacker Women Are Few, But Strong. Kevin Mitnick.
Mafiaboy. Onel de Guzman. Alleged computer vandals.
All men. But for a few brief days last month,
Philippine police thought the "Love Bug" computer
virus was written by Onel's sister, Irene de Guzman.
Their search inadvertently uncovered a group so
elusive that it has fallen under the radar of
sociologists; so rare that its inhabitants don't
often know each other exists.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/hackerwomen000602.html
Domain Hijacking Raises Security Issue
In spite of a recent May 5th U.S. district court
decision which declared that domain names are not
property, and hence, can't be "stolen," domain
thieves last weekend successfully hijacked two
web site/domains from their rightful owners.
The theft highlights the security issues
surrounding domain names, particularly the
authorization schemes that are in place to
protect domain owners.
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,2171,3_386441,00.html
New Zealand Ban On 'Offensive' Domain Names Lifted
New Zealand domain name speculators jumped at
the chance to own seven new names today when
the Internet Society of New Zealand (Isocnz)
lifted a ban preventing anyone registering
the "offensive" words. Isocnz, which is not
affiliated with the global Internet Society,
manages the .nz country domain through a
separate company, Domainz.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/149965.html
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