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Student's Web Site Lands Him In Jail
A Utah high school student who was jailed for
calling teachers "drunks" and female classmates
"sluts" on his Web site is waiting to hear whether
he'll face criminal charges. Sixteen-year-old
Ian Lake was held in juvenile detention for seven
days last month after residents of Milford, in
southwestern Utah, complained to school officials
and the sheriff impounded the boy's computer. A
hearing on whether to file criminal charges against
the teen was held today but a county spokeswoman
said Fifth District Juvenile Court Judge Joseph
Jackson issued an order that information could only
be released by Beaver County Attorney Leo Kanell,
who is to make the final decision on whether charges
will be filed. Kanell was not available for comment.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/150095.html

[FC - What ever hapenned to free speech?]

Police in the dark on Microsoft blast
The circumstances behind the explosive device
that blew up just outside Microsoft's South
African office in Johannesburg early Friday
morning are still a mystery. "I have seen many
bomb sites, and this is not a major one," said
Superintendent Chris Wilken, head of police
communications for the Johannesburg area. "The
device went off at 4:50 this morning, and we
still don't know what type of device was used."
The Johannesburg police also don't know the
motive for the blast, and no one has claimed
responsibility for it as of yet.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2000/0602blast.html

How Online Obsession Led to Murder
After being stalked online-- without her
knowledge, for years-- Amy Boyer's life came
to a sudden end. "Amy had so much going for her,"
said Tim Remsburg about his stepdaughter. "She
had so many plans." Those plans would have
included graduation from dental school and a
21st birthday party this last May. But Amy
Boyer's life was cut drastically short when
a young man's obsession turned into murder.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/cybercrime/privacy/story/0,9955,2580505,00.html

Thief Took British Defense Minister's Laptop
A thief stole the laptop computer of the
government minister in charge of Britain's
nuclear policy, but it did not contain defense
information, the Ministry of Defense said
Saturday. The ministry was responding to a
report in the Sunday People tabloid that the
computer had been stolen. The incident March
25 was one of a series of laptop losses from
government and military officials that prompted
a review of security procedures.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGIY61C129C.html

Internet.com says domain names 'hijacked'
Online trade magazine Internet.com Corp. said
Monday its Internet domain name was ''hijacked''
when someone illegally transferred ownership on
several of its domain addresses, Chief Executive
Alan Meckler told Reuters. Several ``whois''
databases, which track domain ownership, listed
the owner of the Internet.com domain as BCS Inc.
based in Montreal, Canada, and listed Toronto
based domain registrar TUCOWS.com Inc. as the
registrar of record. ``We are shocked by the
whole thing,'' Meckler said. ``We don't know if
we were hacked or Network Solutions was hacked.''
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/internet/docs/66968l.htm
http://www.msnbc.com/news/414587.asp

Crackers use search engines to exploit weak sites
The recent proliferation of point-and-drool GUI
utilities for brute-force password cracking has
led many crackers and Script Kiddies to overlook
a powerful and quite obvious tool available to
all, the common search engine. With a bit of
ingenuity, anyone can skirt basic password
authentication and go straight to the goodies
on those sites where administrators are foolish
enough to post them. If the desired information
is contained in a Web page, anyone can find it.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/000602-000028.html

Hackers break age barriers
IF YOU think that stealing Internet access hours
is a misdemeanour limited to adolescent computer
geeks, you stand corrected on two counts. For one,
some rather well to do people including a senior
Defence Ministry official posted in the Finance
division are being suspected of having stolen
access hours. Besides, far from being a mere
misdemeanour, the offence is equivalent to theft
and accepting stolen property, which can land
those found guilty in jail.
http://www1.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/040600/detFRO05.htm

U.S.-E.U. data Privacy deal near
Despite protests from consumer rights advocates,
the European Union has endorsed a data privacy
pact with the United States that critics fear
will erode legal protections many Europeans now
enjoy. The so-called safe harbor agreement,
likely to take effect this summer, will make
U.S. businesses responsible for safeguarding
the privacy of any personal information they
may collect about European consumers.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/ap/docs/63439l.htm

Britain's web spying Bill could inhibit E-Commerce
Draft legislation allowing security officials to
monitor business e-mails could prevent Britain
becoming a leader in e-commerce, the British
Chambers of Commerce warned Monday. It said
companies could face huge civil liability claims
from clients who believe confidentiality has been
breached by police investigation of electronic
messages. Such risks could encourage companies
to take their business elsewhere, the BCC said.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/internet/docs/65644l.htm

Wiretaps sought in record numbers
The Justice Department last year sought and
received permission from a secret federal
court to place a record 880 wiretaps in spying
and terrorism investigations, department records
show. An FBI official says the taps demonstrate
increased interest in pursuing foreign agents
operating on U.S. soil, including some linked
to Mideast terrorist groups.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/150085.html

IT gets an assist with security
STILL BRUISED FROM bearing a myriad of cyberattacks
during the last six months, U.S. companies will
soon be able to access an ISAC (information sharing
and analysis center) built to anonymously receive,
define, and alert its members of any security issues
that cross its path. Spearheaded by the Information
Technology Association of America (ITAA), the new
center, expected to debut in late July, will provide
a venue for companies to deliver and access up-to-date
information regarding security threats, attacks,
services, software, and system vulnerabilities, said
Harris Miller, president of the ITAA, in Arlington, Va.
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/deleteframe.pl?story=/articles/hn/xml/00/06/05/000605hnsecurity.xml

Rebel Outpost on the Fringes of Cyberspace
If the mouse roared in cyberspace, would anyone
hear it? In the annals of Internet history,
June 5, 2000, may be remembered as the date that
a hardy band of true believers tried to establish
the first independent colony in cyberspace. On
Monday, a small international group of computer
rebels plans to introduce what they are calling
a data haven, perched precariously on a World War
II military fortress six miles off England's coast.
(NY Times article, free registration required)
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/06/biztech/articles/04have.html

A Data Sanctuary Is Born
A windswept gun tower anchored six miles off the
stormy coast of England is about to become the
first Internet data haven. A group of American
cypherpunks has transformed the rusting fortress,
erected by the British military during World War
II to shoot down Nazi aircraft, into a satellite
linked virtual home for anyone looking for a
secure place to store sensitive or controversial
data.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,36749,00.html

Remember the Love Bug?
It seems like ages have passed since the term
"Love Bug" shed its innocent meaning and adopted
more of a "malicious worm that is causing billions
of dollars worth of damages worldwide" connotation.
The media has quietly backed away from the story,
yawning at the stalled investigation that has been
stuck at a computer school in the Philippines, and
shrugging its shoulders at this virus that is so over.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36699,00.html


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