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Two accused of hacking NASA computers
A 15-year-old high school student and a 20-year-old
man have been arrested and accused of hacking into NASA
computers. It was not clear whether the cases were linked.
The teen surrendered Tuesday for allegedly hacking into
two NASA computers in Hampton, Va., and a third computer
in Bethpage, N.Y. His name was not released by Suffolk
County police.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/017703.htm
Crackers fell Cabinet Office Web site
Crackers brought down the Cabinet Office's Web site Thursday,
defacing the site and forcing its hosting company to take it
off line. A cabinet office spokesman says that, to his
knowledge, the attack was not politically motivated and
describes the message posted on the site home page as nothing
more than a "silly note". "Everything possible is being done
by the company involved and Cabinet Office staff to remedy the
situation," he says.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/27/ns-16599.html
Reno sinks teeth into FBI's email monitoring
Attorney General Janet Reno today said she is looking into
the FBI's new high-tech "Carnivore" system of email
monitoring. Reno said she wants to ensure that both privacy
safeguards and the needs of federal law enforcement officials
are met. "When we develop new technology, when we apply the
Constitution, I want to make sure that we apply it in a
consistent and balanced way," Reno told reporters at her
weekly news briefing. "I'm taking a look at it now," she said.
"If additional regulations are needed, we will pursue those."
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2253114.html
Big Brother in the black box
From Russia to Britain to the US, law enforcement is trying
new methods to counter cybercrime. And civil rights activists
are up in arms. Governments world wide are attempting to
increase surveillance powers in an effort to crack down on
Internet-related crimes. However, the latest tool in the war
against online crimes and illicit attacks on networks has
international privacy advocates up in arms.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/27/ns-16581.html
Big Brother in the black box Pt II
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/27/ns-16584.html
Mexican opposition hires hackers
Mexico's centre-left opposition party, the PRD, has employed
a computer hacker to gain access to a list of beneficiaries
of a bank rescue fund. The fund -- of around sixty-five
billion dollars -- was set up by the Mexican government
after a sharp currency devaluation in 1994 to help bankers
recover defaults on bad or illegal loans. A senior PRD leader,
Pablo Gomez, said many credits were illegally awarded to
people with links to the governing Revolutionary Institutional
Party, the PRI.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_831000/831618.stm
Cybercrime Treaty Under Fire
The biggest names in computer security say an international
agreement threatens to leave the criminals holding all the
cards. Less than three months after it was released to the
public, a proposed international computer crime treaty is
coming under fire from a veritable who's who of computer
security experts and academicians who warn that it may
inadvertently aid computer criminals.
http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/article.html%3Fid%3D58
Websites Facing 'Privacy Storm'
The Internet advertising industry warned its Web
colleagues to get their privacy act together because
the times, on desktops and in Washington, they are
a-changin'. Members of the Internet Advertising Bureau
met Wednesday for a privacy forum where a quartet of
industry players fired a warning shot at Web companies.
The message: People are worried, politicians are aware
of it, and laws are coming. So, be ready.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37547,00.html
Hacker exposes computer security benefits
Debra Banning sends mischief and trouble in people's
direction every day, and the Air Force pays her to do
it. She and her staff are "computer hackers" and they
are very good at their work. Banning spoke at the first
Information Assurance Symposium at Air Force Materiel
Command headquarters here June 7. The symposium brought
together both military and civilian leadership and
technicians to work information assurance issues such
as virus protection, cyber attack and security procedures.
"The very thing that gives the information age its power
is also a weakness...its openness," said Lt. Gen. Charles
Coolidge, Jr., AFMC vice commander regarding the symposium.
"We must provide security, but it must be tailored for the
users, streamlined and transparent."
http://www.af.mil/news/Jul2000/n20000713_001064.html
'Love Bug' suspect nixes job offers
The Philippine computer college student accused of
releasing the ``ILOVEYOU'' virus has declined several
job offers on the advice of his mother, his lawyer and
family friends said Thursday. Onel de Guzman was charged
last month with theft and other crimes for allegedly
spreading the ``Love Bug,'' which crippled e-mail systems
worldwide in May, causing an estimated $10 billion in damage.
De Guzman has acknowledged he may have released the virus
by accident, but refused to say whether he authored it.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/ap/docs/191996l.htm
Forget the FBI's snooping: What about your boss?
Lots of people have their knickers in a knot over this
unfortunately named surveillance program the FBI is using
called "Carnivore." (Sounds like a sequel to Survivor, but
in actuality, it's a sniffer that tracks the e-mail of
criminal suspects.) The notion of the FBI forcing an
Internet Service Provider to check out the e-mail of some
bad guy isn't such a terrible idea, on the face of it,
though it certainly isn't as sexy as a high-speed chase
or something out of Shaft. Remember, folks, though it's
easy to forget: Law enforcement is actually good for
society, and technology can aid and abet in the quest for
law and order.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/432143.asp
A love-hate relationship
Arrest of noted 'white hat' exposes murky intersection of
federal investigators, hackers. The world of computer hackers
divides itself into good and bad by hat color, and the good
guys are supposed to wear white. So when the owner of
"whitehats.com" was arrested earlier this year, it sent
shudders through the secretive security community. Max Vision,
regarded as a classic upstanding white hat and, it turns out,
an FBI informant was indicted for breaking into government
computers. The case illustrates the often awkward love-hate
relationship between hackers and law enforcement agencies.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/430186.asp
Jailhouse Net
Inmates with e-mail? It could happen at some state prisons
experimenting with technology behind bars. Scott Spangler
was used to spending most of his time in a cell at San
Quentin State Prison, but the day we met he was sitting at
one of the two computers available to the nearly 2,000
inmates at California's oldest penitentiary. Even without
seeing what his wiry fingers were working on, officials
knew he wasn't downloading something illicit from the Web:
the PCs for San Quentin's inmates are configured to only
allow word processing and research on a few encyclopedia
CD-ROMs.
http://salon.com/tech/feature/2000/07/13/prison/index.html
Security group going to the dogs after hoax alert
Ordinarily it's hard to find people more serious than the
technicians, academics and bug experts who vigilantly comb
the world for potential attacks on computer networks. But
not this week. In a parody of the warnings issued by the
Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), an anonymous
correspondent posted a joke warning on Bugtraq, an
electronic mailing list frequented by computer security
professionals. The hoax alert, disguised as an official
CERT announcement, warns that hackers have devised a way
to remotely take over Sony's Aibo robot dog and command
it to attack, among other unpleasant actions.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2249491.html
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