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Suspected hacker arrested in Dubai
A young European computer programmer has been arrested
in the United Arab Emirates on charges of hacking into
the local internet network and causing two weeks of chaos.
Local press reports named the man as Lee Ashour Syed and
said he was British. The problems for the UAE's only ISP,
Etisalat, have come at an embarrassing time for the
authorities. And they have given ammunition to local
critics of the state's monopoly role over telecommunications.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_800000/800353.stm

White House backs Web privacy plan
The White House Wednesday endorsed an Internet industry
initiative aimed at boosting online privacy just hours
before acknowledging that one of its own web sites may
have violated federal privacy policy.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/057296.htm

Is White House Tracking Web Users?
Big Brother isn't just watching you, he may  be inside
your computer, scanning your movements on the Web.
That's what some privacy experts fear is behind an
online advertising effort by the White House drug office
that is inserting a digital "cookies" into the hard drives
of Internet users who land on Web pages sporting anti-drug
banner ads.
http://www.apbnews.com/Newscenter/breakingnews/2000/06/21/drugcookies0621_01.html

Committee takes time with Internet Security Bill
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is revising a bill that
responds to a variety of concerns about Internet security
and privacy, and the committee chairman plans to schedule
a vote on it before the July 4 holiday recess, a committee
lawyer said Tuesday. The committee last week was to consider
amendments to the  Internet Integrity and Critical
Infrastructure Protection Act, but the  bill's sponsor,
Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, a Republican from
Utah, decided to shelve it because of concerns raised by
information technology industry officials and privacy
advocates, said Manus Cooney, chief counsel for the
committee.
http://idg.net/ic_191326_1794_9-10000.html

Canada's Kasten Chase to Secure top-secret U.S. data
Canada's Kasten Chase has been given the exclusive go-ahead
by the U.S. National Security Agency to safeguard top secret
government data, which could make the recent theft of computer
hard drives laden with nuclear secrets from Los Alamos National
Laboratory a nonissue in the future.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/reuters/docs/121941l.htm

Infosec poses allied communication challenge
Information security remains the largest stumbling block
facing the United States and its military allies as they
struggle to overcome systems interoperability problems
highlighted by the war in Kosovo, senior Pentagon officials
said Tuesday. Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles Croom Jr., vice
director of command, control, communications and computer
systems for the Pentagon's Joint Staff, said the war in
Kosovo offered examples of how lack of planning and
restrictive security policies can hamper allied
interoperability.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/0619/web-ops-06-21-00.asp

What Kind of Germ Creates a Computer Virus?
I am tired of these viruses. Every morning, I come into work,
relatively chipper and ready to face the day. Problem is, more
mornings than not, I'm met with the dispiriting news that a
new high-tech bug is stalking my computer. By 10:30 or so,
I've reached a state of low-grade panic; I have a third cup
of coffee and imagine the virus circling my e-mail in-box like
a vulture hunting for injured prey. And I know I'm in for it,
because let's face facts: In the grand scheme of the Internet
world, I'm roughly the equivalent of a field mouse who's had
both its knees kicked in.
http://www.time.com/time/daily/0,2960,47866-101000620,00.html

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