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PayPal no friend to scam victims
In the past three weeks, dozens of Yahoo! auction customers
were cheated of at least $100 each by a scam artist selling
computer hard drives. Most had used a third-party payment
company named PayPal, which advertises itself as the safe
and secure way to make payments in online auctions. So the
victims were shocked to learn that PayPal the largest
auction payments system, with 2.6 million users offered
them none of the built-in consumer protection familiar to
credit card users.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/434192.asp
Pakistan group defaces NOAA Web pages
Hackers calling for the United States to mediate the
territorial conflict in Kashmir attacked and defaced 11
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration World Wide
Web pages over the weekend. The cyberattacks forced NOAA
to shut down its Forecast Systems Laboratory site
indefinitely until security measures could be put in place,
according to a spokeswoman at the laboratory. She did not
elaborate on what security measures might be used or when
the site might be put back online.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/0717/web-hack-07-18-00.asp
Bureau names new eFBI chief
The FBI has named a new assistant director to oversee the
design and launch of eFBI, a recently renamed and resurrected
program that will give bureau agents the ability to share and
sift through information via the World Wide Web. Bob E. Dies
recently retired as the general manager of IBM Corp.'s Network
and Personal Computer Division. As a 20-year executive with the
company was involved in product development and services,
management and organizational restructuring on an international
level, according to an FBI announcement.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/0717/web-efbi-07-18-00.asp
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/2427-1.html
Now, e-mail is even more dangerous
Researchers discover method that allows vandals to take
control of a PC simply by sending an e-mail. A new method
for attacking computers connected to the Internet allows
vandals to take control of a PC simply by sending it an
e-mail. The vulnerability in Microsoft's Outlook e-mail
program has widespread implications: Until now, victims
had to willingly open an e-mail attachment, or at least
view a specially formed e-mail message, to be attacked.
Now, a computer vandal could conceivably take control of
thousands of computers with a single mass e-mail. Intruders
can have their way with a target machine once it begins to
download the ill-formed message to its hard drive.
http://www.msnbc.com/msn/432208.asp
Cracker education site folds on DMCA threat
he threat of legal action can be an effective, preemptive
weapon in the ever-shifting front lines of copyright law,
as the well-known (and now former) cracker-education Web
site Icefortress.com has recently learned. The ICE crew
have decided to pack up their operation rather than defend
a lengthy court battle threatened by on-line porno billing
outfit IBILL, a frequent, and fairly challenging, target
for password crackers.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/12009.html
House approves anti-spam legislation
The House of Representatives today passed the first bill
that will hold email marketers accountable for the influx
of bulk unsolicited email, commonly known as "spam."
The Unsolicited Electronic Mail Act swept through the
House with overwhelming bipartisan support: a 427-1 decision
in the act's favor. The bill will bar email marketers from
sending spam unless the message gives identification that
it's an unsolicited commercial advertisement; the bill
also will support the enforcement of opt-out measures.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2284004.html
Yesmail Fights Blacklist Threat
The Realtime Blackhole List, an anti-spam alert system,
has stepped into a legal black hole of its own. The
organization that maintains the list has been temporarily
prevented by a federal court in Illinois from adding a
permissive email marketer to its roster of banned domains.
http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37621,00.html
Iris scans take off at airports
Officials report no protests about eye ID. In one of the
first public applications of eye-scanning technology, two
airports this week will begin scanning passengers' irises
as part of an effort to streamline boarding and security
processes.
http://computerworld.com/cwi/story/frame/0,1213,NAV47_STO47202,00.html
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