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White House takes a stab at halting cybercrime
White House Chief of Staff John Podesta on Monday announced
a legislative proposal for combating cybercrime that also
includes new privacy protections that would bind law
enforcement officials pursuing criminal suspects, a move
that could tilt debate on the subject in the direction of
greater electronic civil liberties. Podesta called the
Clinton administration proposal a boost for privacy, even
though it decreases legal protections for cable modem-based
communications at the same time as it increases them for
e-mail transferred over telephone networks.
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0700/071800td.htm
White House Proposes Extension of Federal Wiretap Laws
The Clinton administration today called for legislation that
would extend federal wiretap laws to include surveillance of
e-mail communications over cable and DSL lines, technologies
not explicitly covered by current federal law.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/152237.html
Senate approves plan to beef up computer security
Federal agency heads must ensure that their information
systems are secure under a provision of the fiscal 2001
defense authorization bill that gained Senate approval
late last week. The provision, S. 1993, co-sponsored by
Sens. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., and Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn.,
provides a managerial framework for protecting federal
computer records from hackers, cyberterrorists, and
accidental or careless unauthorized disclosure. Thompson
has called agencies' current method of dealing with such
problems a "band-aid approach."
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0700/071700k1.htm
Company directors 'exposed' to computer crime
Half of the directors in the FTSE 1000 say their company
has been the victim of computer crime, yet almost a third
of in the UK remain unaware of the threat and its legal
implications. Nearly a third of Britain's leading company
directors remain unaware of the legal risk of computer crime,
security firm Integralis revealed Monday. This, despite the
fact that half the FTSE 1000 company directors questioned by
Integralis admitted their company had been the victim of some
form of computer crime.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/28/ns-16661.html
E-tailers hurt by credit card fraud
Credit card fraud is rampant on the Internet, undercutting
Web retailers already buckling under big losses, according
to a study to be released this week by a well-known research
firm. Stolen cards are used in 1.2% of all Internet sales,
forcing e-tailers to write off $230 million in 1999, according
to a Gartner study. Just 0.06% to 0.09% of traditional sales
are phony, making e-tailers more than 10 times as likely to
be victims as bricks-and-mortar stores.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/152228.html
Australians Charged Over Spamming Incident
An Australian man on Friday pleaded guilty in the Melbourne
Magistrates' Court to charges related to the sending of mass
commercial e-mail, or spam, and bulletin board postings to
millions of Internet users. In what is being hailed as one
of the first criminal prosecutions of its kind, two Australian
men were charged with criminal offenses in both Australia and
the US in May.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/152181.html
ZDNN - Summer of Hacking Update
Hackers making Napster 'irrelevant'
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2604185,00.html
Hackers flexing political muscles
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2604179,00.html
Hacker group developing hacktivism app
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2604491,00.html
Mitnick teaches 'social engineering'
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2604480,00.html
DeCSS in court: DVDs can be cracked
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2604503,00.html
Jello Biafra Issues Call To Arms For Hackers
Jello Biafra, former lead instigator of the Dead Kennedys,
still knows how to lob a metaphorical Molotov cocktail.
In a two-hour keynote address at the Hackers on Planet
Earth (HOPE) convention in New York, Biafra ranted against
"corporate rule," the cult of celebrity, and what he sees
as the cozy relationship between the media and business
interests.
http://techweb.com/wire/finance/story/INV20000717S0001
Net Users Say Hackers Block Trust
Most U.S. and Latin American Internet users in a survey said
hackers who steal personal information are the biggest threat
to building trust online. Cheskin Research, Redwood Shores,
Calif., said Monday that websites have the potential of
boosting trust by stressing their use of effective security.
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000717S0008
When hacking is guessing
You don't have to be a computer genius to break a password
just a good guesser. A survey by credit card giant Visa has
found that 67% of passwords chosen to protect information
are easy to guess names or numbers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_837000/837802.stm
Unimaginative passwords pose security risk
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2000/0717/breaking55.htm
Video hacker court case hears more piracy coming
Conditions are ripe for a wave of mass video piracy on a par
with that of the millions of computer users who freely copy
and swap music via the Internet, attorneys for Hollywood's
top film studios argued on Monday during the first day of a
case seeking to stem the threat.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/internet/docs/205320l.htm
U.S. loosens encryption export rules
The United States has eased its rules on exporting encryption
products to the European Union and other key trading partners
in an effort to try to improve security in cyberspace and
promote electronic commerce, the White House said on Monday.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/internet/
White House proposes updated wiretapping laws
The White House proposed legislation Monday to update wiretapping
rules so that legal protections currently applied to telephone
calls are extended to new forms of electronic communication, like
e-mail. The plan would require law enforcement officials to obtain
high-level approval before applying for a court order to intercept
the content of e-mail -- in line with current rules that govern
listening to phone calls.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/07/17/clinton.wiretaps.ap/index.html
ACLU: Block FBI e-snoops
The American Civil Liberties Union on July 11 appealed to
Congress to protect Americans from unreasonable searches and
seizures on the Internet in light of recent revelations that
a new monitoring tool could enable the FBI to intercept the
e-mail of law-abiding citizens.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/07/17/aclu.v.snoops.idg/index.html
FTC Warns Web Sites To Comply With COPPA
Web sites marketing products to children should expect to
receive an e-mail from The Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
in the next few days, as a friendly reminder that stiff
fines are in store for them if they fail to abide by new
laws protecting the privacy of kids online.
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/152248.html
Cold War In A Digital Age
With the demise of communism, and with everybody but Fidel
Castro embracing free-market economies, you'd think it would
be hard to muster a good old-fashioned Red Scare these days.
But with the rise of the Internet, it seems we've got worries
aplenty. International intrigue. Spies. Informants. Traitors.
Revolutionaries. Huge corporations are anguishing over
un-American activities. Congress is holding hearings on
cyber-revolutionaries. The media sizzle with prophecies of the
imminent demise of our capitalist way of life.
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/columns/0,4164,2604041,00.html
Signing Up to Be Surveilled
Forget the pager number and don't bother calling. One company
is making it easier for folks to "track" anyone, by allowing
them to pull up a map of the person's location on a personal
digital assistant (PDA) or computer. Cell-Loc Inc., a Calgary
based company that develops wireless, location-based services,
is currently testing two new services. Fleet Tracking lets
businesses such as taxi companies and delivery services keep
tabs on their employees. L411, a consumer-oriented directory
assistance, allows subscribers to call switchboard operators
who can view a map and identify where a call is being made from.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37559,00.html
Analysis: Education is the best weapon against viruses
You've probably heard about the controversy surrounding beer
sales at Wrigley Field in Chicago. A few weeks ago, the Cubs
were playing the Dodgers and a bunch of goofballs had too many
beers and got rowdy. It got so bad that a few of the Dodgers
went into the stands to beat up the goofballs. What was the
response to this incident? Rational folks may say that security
should be beefed up, fans should be reminded about appropriate
public behavior and players should let security professionals
handle the goofballs. But no, the response was to prohibit
vendors from selling beer after the sixth inning.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/07/17/virus.war.edu.idg/index.html
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