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Web-porn scandal rocks White House
West Wingers downloaded gay, bestial, teen sex videos,
jamming firewall system. A consultant hired last year to
beef up security for the White House's computer network
found massive pornographic video files passing through
the system's Internet firewall, WorldNetDaily has learned.
Some of the downloaded files were traced back to West Wing
officials as recently as the beginning of last year, during
the height of the impeachment crisis, say sources who were
involved in replacing the firewall system as part of Y2K
security upgrades.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_sperry_news/20000809_xnspy_webporn_sc.shtml
[FC - looks to me like the consultants violated their confidentiality
agreement by revealing this information. I would not likely want to
hire them for any work I do after seeing how they reacted to this
situation.]
U.S. Offers $25,000 Reward in Missing-Laptop Case
The State Department offered a $25,000 reward on Wednesday
for anyone who helps recover a missing State Department
laptop computer that may contain highly classified
information. The laptop, thought to hold information on
nuclear proliferation, was reported missing from the
department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research in January,
and investigators have not yet discovered whether it was
stolen for its contents or merely for its value as hardware.
http://www.antionline.org/2000/08/09/-----/0130-2163-Laptop-Reward..html
Visa sets new rules for online purchases
Visa, the world's biggest payment card network, said
Wednesday it was setting 10 new security rules for
transactions done over the Internet by its more than
21,000 member financial institutions and their merchant
partners. Visa tied the moves to combating online fraud
-- running at more than three times the rate of card
fraud overall -- as well as to boosting consumer confidence
in electronic commerce. It said it was also eager to head
off possible new government regulatory action by policing
itself.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/010392.htm
Inter-mediates' sites hacked and down
We received word that Inter-mediates' vast network of sites
had been hacked and were down. The company, most commonly
known for its Special Reserve discount store network
confirmed there had been "external interference" but
declined to comment on whether it was a denial of service
attack or a hack.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/12479.html
Virus lands T-Online customer with giant bill
One look at at his T-Online bill and Patrick S, a businessman
from Straubing, Bavaria, almost suffered a stroke. The telco
was charging him a total of 9,000 deutschmarks (=A31,800). "I
immediately wrote to the telecom company in protest. Usually
my bills amount to roughly 300 deutschmarks a month," the
victim explains to ZDNet. Around three weeks later Germany=92s
largest Internet provider told him the case had been looked
into, and that nothing unusual had been found. When the second
bill of 15,000 deutschmarks (=A34,629) arrived, the angry customer
became even more suspicious and turned to the police.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/31/ns-17207.html
Prank leads to fears about mobile security
Japan's i-mode mobile phones were hit by a bizarre attack
Tuesday which security experts warn may be just the first of
many security worries for broadband mobile Internet. Hundreds
of Japanese i-mode users were stung by a prank which forced
phones to dial "110" -- the police emergency telephone number
in Japan -- during an online quiz.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/31/ns-17205.html
Computer Crime Report Released
A June 2000 report, called Computer Crime, was released into
the public domain on July 5, 2000, by the New Jersey State
Commission of Investigation and the Attorney General of New
Jersey. It is available at the Commission's Web site.
www.state.nj.us/sci
State tracks workers=92 downloads
State Department officials have issued a directive that bars
workers agencywide from using government computers to
download music or any other non-official files from the
World Wide Web. The department is backing up its words with
a software program capable of finding and reporting on
unauthorized downloads, according to Steven Toole, marketing
director for WQuinn Associates Inc., the Reston, Va.-based
manufacturer of software called StorageCentral.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/0807/web-mp3-08-09-00.asp
NIST readies security, workflow pilot
The Commerce Department=92s National Institute of Standards
and Technology is getting ready to kick off a 100-seat pilot
to test security and electronic workflow applications. The
E-Approval pilot participants, who are scattered throughout
NIST, will begin using public-key infrastructure and digital
signatures, electronic forms and workflow applications for
"real work" within the next few weeks, said Bruce Rosen,
associate director for CIO projects in NIST=92s Information
Technology Lab. A final training class was held last week.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/0807/web-nist-08-09-00.asp
Adobe Closes Security Hole
Adobe Systems has released a software update that patches
potential security vulnerabilities found in Adobe Acrobat
products for Windows. Until now, PDF files were considered
safe, posing no risks to users. For that reason and its
transmission quality, PDF has become an industry standard
for Internet documents. But a vulnerability, discovered by
Shadow Penguin Security, could allow malicious code to be
included within a PDF file due to a buffer overflow error.
So far, no customers have reported any problems. If the
vulnerability is exploited, it could cause Acrobat to
crash and run arbitrary code.
http://www.zdnet.com/sp/stories/news/0,4538,2613033,00.html
Netscape changes download software
Web browser designer Netscape Communications said Wednesday
it will revise a program for downloading files from the
Internet so that it will no longer collect data about users'
online activity. The software, called SmartDownload, is the
subject of a federal class-action lawsuit that claims it
violates a federal law protecting computer users' privacy.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/ap/docs/292349l.htm
Judge rejects Internet Co's request
A judge has rejected an Internet polling company's request
that it be removed immediately from a nonprofit group's
blacklist of businesses that purportedly send unsolicited,
bulk e-mails. U.S. District Judge David Larimer also delayed
until Aug. 24 a hearing on whether to force a dozen Internet
service providers to stop blocking Harris Interactive Inc.
from corresponding with more than 1 million of its 6.6 million
online panelists.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/ap/docs/292362l.htm
China pegs Web as a danger to communism
As Chinese police hunted organizers of the country's first
dissident Web site, the Communist Party today said the
government must beef up its online presence to combat
infiltration by its ideological enemies. The party
newspaper, People's Daily, described the Web as an important
battleground for public and international opinion. It said
China must "work hard to grasp the initiative" online.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2478957.html
[FC - They are right about that...]
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