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Federal judge bans convicted hacker from tech conference
A federal judge Monday banned convicted computer hacker
Kevin Mitnick from taking part in a technology conference
in Salt Lake City Wednesday. Mitnick, who gained notoriety
for his hacking exploits and spent several years in a
federal prison in Lompac, Calif., won't be sitting on a
computer security panel discussion at the Utah Information
Technologies Association conference at the Salt Palace
Convention Center. The judge kiboshed the appearance
because Mitnick's prison release agreement prohibits him
from "consulting or advising" on the topic of computer
related activity.
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,160008642,00.html?

Former Employee Steals Internet Radio Stations
Three Internet-only radio stations have gone off the
air after they were actually removed from the computer
server they were hosted on by a "disgruntled former
employee." The three electronic music stations, E101,
Pro G and Trance Invasion, are operated by EBandMedia
--a start-up company owned by Internet incubator iWeb
Corp.
http://www.currents.net/newstoday/00/04/18/news2.html

Administration, Industry Confer On Cybersecurity
Maintaining the stance that industry, not government,
must take the lead in guarding against hacker attacks
and other electronic intrusions, Clinton Administration
officials urged corporate leaders to beef up their
cybersecurity efforts at a government-industry "summit"
here today. "In this electronic age, (cybersecurity)
has to be (addressed) at the strategic level of companies.
It's not an ancillary function that is left to the
(technologists)," John Tritak, director of the Critical
Infrastructure Assurance Office, told Newsbytes during
a break in today's event.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/147521.html

Top U.S. priority: Protect that data!
Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warned corporate
chiefs Tuesday that protecting their data from cyberthreats
was about to become a top priority in the United States.
Summers said he had no doubt that in 10 years information
security would be "an absolutely central priority in terms
of management of business risk." "The only question is
whether we will move to that in a smooth way or whether
there will have been four or five spectacular failures
which will have woken everybody up and gotten us to that
point," Summers said.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2552199,00.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/396646.asp

Government to step up information security research
The federal government intends to make finding Trojan
horses and trap doors on computer systems a "research
priority," as the risk is one that some companies may
be facing as a result of hasty year 2000 problem repair
work. That was the message delivered by Richard Clarke,
national coordinator for security, infrastructure
protection and counterterrorism, at a U.S. Commerce
Department-sponsored conference on information security
today.
http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000418D69A

Hong Kong Customs Sets Up Internet Piracy Unit
Hong Kong's customs service has set up a new Anti-Internet
Piracy unit in an attempt to patrol and tackle online
intellectual property breaches on the behalf of global
copyright owners. According to Vincent Poon Yeung-kwong,
Hong Kong's assistant commissioner of customs and excise,
his government department is the enforcement agency of
copyright, including on the Internet. The state agency
is using funds to train its officials to tackle breaches
of copyright on the Internet on behalf of local and
international corporations. The new Anti-Internet Piracy
team, formed after a joint program with the US Customs
Service, will comprise seven Customs officers within the
Intellectual Property Investigation Bureau.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/147525.html

Most Firms Spy on Workers
Almost three-quarters of major U.S. companies snoop on
their employees' phone calls, e-mail, Web surfing habits
and computer files, according to a new survey on workplace
privacy. The latest findings from the American Management
Association, a 700,000-member management development
organization, are included in its annual survey Workplace
Monitoring and Surveillance, which was conducted from
January to March of this year.
http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/internetcrime/2000/04/18/workplace0418_01.html

New chip offers defense against hacker attacks
Juniper Networks has built a new chip for its networking
equipment that can prevent intruders from attacking Web
sites. Juniper today said it is shipping a new processor
that can scan all the data flowing through a network
without slowing down the traffic. The chip, now built
into Juniper's family of networking equipment, could
prevent the hacker attacks that crippled many of the
top Web sites in February, according to Juniper chief
executive Scott Kriens.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-1713007.html

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