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Boys boast of murder plot on internet
A race against time across cyberspace led Berlin police
to thwart a murder foretold, minutes before the would-be
killers had announced they would strike. Officers swooped
on a school in the southern suburbs of the German capital
to arrest one of two teenage boys claimed to be behind a
macabre boast to an internet chat forum. The night before,
a chatroom user had indicated that he and an accomplice
would murder their teacher the next day. The threat was
seen by an employee of an internet service provider in
the southern German town of Augsburg who noted down the
details and alerted the police.
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4039470,00.html
Man charged with breaking into NASA computers
A 20-year-old man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly
breaking into two computers owned by NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory and using one to host Internet chat rooms
devoted to hacking. Raymond Torricelli of New Rochelle,
New York, was named in a five-count complaint that also
charged him with sending unsolicited advertisements for
a pornographic Web site and intercepting passwords and
usernames traversing networks of computers owned by
Georgia Southern University and San Jose State University.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/reuters/docs/188825l.htm
Critics attack FBI e-mail snooping device
Civil liberties and privacy groups are railing against
a new system designed to allow law enforcement agents to
intercept and analyze huge amounts of e-mail in connection
with an investigation. The system, called "Carnivore," was
first hinted at on April 6 in testimony to a House
subcommittee. Now the FBI has it in use. When Carnivore is
placed at an Internet service provider, it scans all
incoming and outgoing e-mails for messages associated with
the target of a criminal probe.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LAW/07/12/fbisnooping.ap/index.html
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2602200,00.html
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2245549.html
Script kiddies: The Net's cybergangs
They're the gangs of the Internet. Teenagers, bored with
their real existence, hit the electronic byways of the Net
to tag Web sites with electronic graffiti; out for the
equivalent of an electronic joy ride. They go by such names
as Artech, Nemesystm, Team Holocaust and Doodoo Krew, but
security experts refer to them as ankle-biters, packet
monkeys and script kiddies -- denigrating them for their
lack of skill. Yet, like a pirate radio station, the
so-called script kids have the power to send a message
to the world, if for only a few minutes, using pre-made
tools just as office workers use spreadsheets and word processors.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2602573,00.html
ZDNet News Special: Summer of Hacking
Talk about hotter than July. Over the next three weeks,
two of the world's biggest hacking gatherings -- DEF CON
and 2600's H2K -- will hit Las Vegas and New York. Not to
mention DEF CON's corporate spinoff, Black Hat Briefings.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/special/summerhack.html
eBay targets `cyber pest' in Chicago
Online auction giant eBay Inc. wants a federal judge in
Chicago to shut down a South Side man who has allegedly
deluged customers with harassing, profane, obscene and
threatening messages, and has avoided electronic security
by flowing like water through a never-ending stream of
phony accounts. The San Jose, Calif., company took what
it said was an extremely unusual move Tuesday and filed
a petition in U.S. District Court, asking for a temporary
restraining order barring Braxton Anderson from using its
site. Anderson, 33, of the 7300 block of South Union Avenue,
denies many of the company's allegations and says he's being
singled out by a group of auction-house customers with a
vendetta.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/ebay12.html
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/internet/docs/189411l.htm
Nearly undetectable tracking device raises concern
A widely used, yet virtually undetectable, means of tracking
people's Internet surfing habits is joining its better-known
cousin, the cookie, as the subject of several lawsuits and a
privacy initiative by the government. The technology, often
called Web bugs or 1-pixel gifs, is prompting further concern
that the once-freewheeling Web is becoming more like an
Orwellian Big Browser. Like cookies, Web bugs are electronic
tags that help Web sites and advertisers track visitors'
whereabouts in cyberspace. But Web bugs are invisible on the
page and are much smaller, about the size of the period at
the end of this sentence.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-2247960.html
Feds, private sector crafting framework for cybersecurity
Recognizing that Internet security is increasingly critical
to all involved in e-business, the federal government is
working with private industry to craft a basic set of risk
assessment and insurance guidelines for the new economy.
The National Security Council's Critical Infrastructure
Assurance Office, or CIAO, is co-sponsoring a series of
high-level summit meetings with insurers, auditors, legal
professionals and corporate directors to help establish
a framework for cybersecurity guidelines and best practices.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/bursts/0,7407,2600264,00.html
Hotmail glitch exposes email addresses
A flaw in Microsoft's Hotmail program is inadvertently
sending subscribers' email addresses to online advertisers,
the company confirmed today. The admission highlights a
widespread Internet security problem known as "data spill."
Security experts said similar problems have plagued Internet
companies that make personal information available in URLs,
or Web addresses. In Hotmail, the problem crops up when
people who subscribe to HTML newsletters open messages that
come packaged with banner ads. "If you have a Hotmail account
and you subscribe to an HTML newsletter that serves ad banners,
simply by reading the message, the leak occurs," said
Richard M. Smith, a privacy and security expert who brought
the design flaw to Microsoft's attention in mid-June.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-2247861.html
Security hole leaves Microsoft's Excel vulnerable
Microsoft said it is working to close a security hole in its
Excel spreadsheet program that could open computers to attack
while bypassing warning systems. The bug in Excel 2000 could
yield control of the target computer, security analysts warned.
The vulnerability lets an attacker create an Excel file (.xls)
that, upon being opened, can execute code placed in a dynamic
link library (DLL). DLLs are files that application programmers
use to share code among various Windows applications.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2247443.html
Security policies fall short
Federal agencies are failing to follow the policies to ensure
that changes in their software and systems do not open
security vulnerabilities, the General Accounting Office told
agency officials last month. In letters to 16 federal chief
information officers, GAO officials warned that "without
proper software change controls, there are risks that security
features could be inadvertently or deliberately omitted or
rendered inoperable, processing irregularities could occur,
or malicious code could be introduced."
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/0710/web-gao-07-12-00.asp
Lawmakers Intro Privacy Bill In Wake of Toysmart Scandal
A pair of senators today introduced legislation that would
prevent Internet companies from selling their customers'
information to help pay off bankruptcy debts. Introduced by
Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Robert Torricelli, D-NJ, the
legislation has been called a preemptive strike against other
e-commerce companies that might decide to dig themselves out
of bankruptcy by auctioning their clients' personal information,
an action announced by online toy seller Toysmart,
http://www.toysmart.com , last month. The bill's introduction
comes just days after a pair of lawmakers introduced related
legislation in the House.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/152015.html
Senators Agree to Concessions In Identity Theft Bill
A pair of senators sponsoring legislation to crack down on
identity fraud by prohibiting the sale of Social Security
numbers agreed to consider exceptions in the bill that
would allow providers of individual reference services to
continue selling information to law enforcement,
journalists and other professionals.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/152000.html
Calls To Identity Theft Hotline Soar
Calls to the Federal Trade Commission's identity theft
consumer hotline have doubled since March, the agency
told a Senate subcommittee Wednesday. The FTC is handling
about 850 calls per week, twice the number of calls taken
the last time Congress held a hearing on the subject of
identity theft. FTC representatives counsel victims on
how to check with credit reporting agencies to protect
their credit histories and finances. The FTC's Web site
also provides information on identity theft, and the
agency will soon begin working with the top credit
companies to streamline the complaints process.
http://news.excite.com:80/news/ap/000712/10/identity-theft
FTC cracks down on Internet pharmacies
In a crackdown on Web sites offering Viagra and other
drugs targeting sexual dysfunction, several online
pharmacies agreed to stop current business practices to
settle charges that they made untrue claims about their
facilities and charged customers unfairly, the Federal
Trade Commission said Wednesday.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/017394.htm
Court sacks Web site's use of NFL player images
A Web site violated NFL Players Association licensing
rights by using the names, images and other attributes
of league players, a federal court has ruled. U.S.
District Court Judge William P. Dimitrouleas yesterday
ruled that Gridiron.com used names and images of players
without paying for them, a violation of the NFL Players
Contract and Licensing Assignment signed by 97 percent
of players. Dimitrouleas barred Gridiron.com from using
six or more player images on its Web site. The site
provides access to information on more than 150 NFL
players, allowing people to search for players by name,
team and position.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2247442.html
1,800 Web Sites Sued Over Use Of Olympics Name
More than 1,800 Web sites have been sued under the federal
anti-cybersquatting law for using domain names that duplicate
or are similar to official Olympics trademarks. The lawsuit
was filed in US District Court at Alexandria, Va. on behalf
of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the United
States Olympic Committee (USOC) and the Salt Lake Organizing
Committee (SLOC) for the 2002 Winter Games, seeking to shut
down the sites or transfer the domain names under terms of
the Anti Cyber-squatting Protection Act of 1999.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/151991.html
EU To Join The Anti-Spam Front
While the European Union and the US continue to experience
certain disagreements over aspects of Internet privacy and
tax regimes, the two trading giants both share a distaste
for spam. The EU's European Commission, according to news
reports, is planning to propose rules to keep a flood of
unsolicited commercial e-mail (popularly known as spam)
from tying up EU citizens' mailboxes.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/151993.html
British Columbia classifies violent computer game as adult movie
Authorities in British Columbia have classified a
computer game that graphically depicts severed heads
and humans burned alive as an adult movie, making it
illegal to sell or rent it to anyone under 18.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/044127.htm
Mitnick gets OK to lecture, consult
Probation office approval reverses earlier denial of
requests to work. Reversing a previous decision, Kevin
Mitnick's probation overseers have given the notorious
computer intruder permission to lecture on hacking and
cracking, work as a security consultant and write a
column for a soon-to-be-launched e-commerce site.
http://www.msnbc.com/msn/431947.asp
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2602588,00.html
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