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Philippine police charge 'Love Bug' suspect
Philippine investigators filed criminal charges
Thursday against a computer programming student
suspected of having released the ``ILOVEYOU''
computer virus which crippled e-mail systems
worldwide. The filing of charges against
Onel de Guzman, 23, had been delayed while
lawyers for the National Bureau of Investigation
studied evidence and applicable laws.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/026111.htm
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2172041.html
Man Pleads Guilty in NASA Hack Case
A former computer science student pleaded guilty
Thursday to going on a hacking spree against private
and government targets, including the military and
NASA. Ikenna Iffih, 20, who studied at Northeastern
University, could have faced up to 20 years in
prison, but under a plea agreement will serve no
more than six months. Sentencing was set for October.
Iffih, who was born in Nigeria, could also be deported.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20000629/us/nasa_hacker_1.html
Former Intel employee admits to computer fraud
A former Intel engineer who managed to put the brakes
on chip production at one of the company's fabrication
facilities pleaded guilty to computer fraud. Paul
Barton, a former software engineer at Intel, pleaded
guilty to one count of computer fraud this week in
U.S. District Court in Oregon, according to Kent
Robinson, an assistant U.S. attorney. In 1997, Intel
fired Barton, who managed an automated manufacturing
system called Workstream inside Fab 15 in Aloha,
Oregon. When the company fired him, Intel revoked his
password and took away his computer. What Intel
failed to realize, however, was that Barton could log
into the system from his home computer.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2174535.html
17,000 Bank details plucked from GST Site
The bank details of 17,000 Australian businesses have
been harvested from a Treasury department Web site,
with many companies finding their details contained
in an alarming e-mail, this morning. A man calling
himself 'Kelly' rang ABC radio station 2BL this
morning claiming he had accessed company details
from the GST information site www.gstassist.gov.au,
which contains the details of about 27,000 businesses.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/zdnn/stories/zdnn_display/au0003700.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/11686.html
GANG WARFARE
BLOODHOUND GANG's official website was the target of
a hacker this afternoon (June 29). The hacker, calling
themself Juxtu> and leaving the email address
hahaha@usa.net, wrote: "At first let me explain the
reason for hacking this server. I wanted to shor (sic)
the administrator of this server that it has a bug
(I won't say what bug) :)"
http://www.nme.com:80/newsdesk/20000629163437.html
In Bleak Russia, a Young Man's Thoughts Turn to Hacking
As a teenager living in St. Petersburg, Russia, Slava
was an accomplished athlete, with a fanatical love of
high-risk sports like snowboarding and skiing. In
March 1998, a snowboarding accident left him paralyzed
from the waist down. Now 22, Slava spends his evenings
at home with his parents and 16-year-old brother and
engages in a different sport: hacking.
(NY Times article, free registration required)
http://www10.nytimes.com:80/library/tech/00/06/circuits/articles/29hack.html
Interpol offers private Website cyber-crime info
Interpol is to provide intelligence to a private
Website to help businesses defend themselves against
global cyber-crime, the company involved said on
Thursday. Atomic Tangerine, an independent U.S.
venture consulting firm, said the organisation
that groups 178 national police forces had agreed
to pass on relevant information about hacking,
stolen goods, fraud and other dangers to corporate
health.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/015636.htm
Survey - Cybercrime Concern Outweighs Precautions
Consumers and tech professionals are plenty concerned
about being victimized by cybercrime, but only a
fraction of them use firewalls on their personal
computers, according to a survey by online security
provider Symantec Corp. Eighty-seven percent of
consumers and nearly 95 percent of technology
professionals use anti-virus software to protect
their computer from damaging viruses but leave
themselves vulnerable to hacker attacks and theft
of financial data, the survey said. Only 19 percent
of consumers and 49 percent of those in the technology
profession have a personal firewall on their PCs.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/151446.html
Panel shifts weapons lab security to new agency
The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday
approved and sent to the House a bill designed to
protect nuclear secrets at government laboratories.
The bill (H.R. 3906), which passed by voice vote,
codifies some of the security changes for federal
nuclear facilities already put in place by Energy
Secretary Bill Richardson. In addition, the bill
calls for reports to Congress on progress in
improving security. The Commerce Committee gave its
blessing to the legislation, approving it on May 17.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0600/063000t3.htm
Digital spying concerns U.S. lawmakers
Concerns that U.S. intelligence agencies are spying
on ordinary American citizens could cause Nixon-era
protections to be strengthened for the Internet age.
As more information surfaces about Echelon, a secret
program to extensively monitor foreign communications,
policy analysts and legislators have become
increasingly worried that such operations have been
used to place Americans under surveillance instead.
Echelon is run by the United States, in cooperation
with the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
The end result: U.S. laws that cover operations such
as Echelon may be strengthened to protect citizens'
communications from being caught by a comprehensive
electronic net.
http://www.zdnet.com:80/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2596561,00.html
Leaks and geeks: International espionage goes high-tech
International spies, pilfered documents and treasonous
allegations: Are these the irrelevant artifacts of the
1980s Cold War? Absolutely not, Mr. Bond. A spate of
old-fashioned security leaks and newfangled hack attacks
has made corporate espionage one of the New Economy's
hottest topics. As companies such as Microsoft, Oracle
and Intel struggle to protect trade and investment
secrets, tech firms are increasingly the perpetrators
and victims of spy missions--the likes of which British
spy novelist Ian Fleming and his 007 character would be
proud.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2174240.html
Bill Gates' roots in the trashcans of history
It is interesting to note the high moral tone being
taken by Microsoft in its castigation of Oracle's
legal if somewhat dodgy intelligence gathering
activities. But surely Microsoft hasn't forgotten
that Bill Gates himself, together with Paul Allen,
has also used trash cans as a primary source of
intelligence? Gates even admitted this in an
interview recorded in 1993 which was deposited in
the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian
Institution (which coincidentally is a short walk
from Judge Jackson's Court).
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11671.html
Time May Be Right For Biometrics
The world of James Bond may be inching toward reality.
A new generation of biometric devices -- gadgets that
identify you by scanning your face, fingerprint, or
voice, have a distinctly futuristic look and feel, but
have yet to make much of a wave in the market. But,
integrators and vendors at PC Expo's "Biometropolis"
exhibit were upbeat about the prospects for such wares.
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000629S0018
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