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Date: 2001-07-01 22:45:17
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Hackers invade computers of Argentina rights group Hackers managed to
destroy the computer hard disks of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, one of
Argentina's best known human rights groups formed amid the country's
1970s dictatorship, the organization said Friday.  ``They destroyed
everything, including the hard disks,'' said Hebe de Bonafini, leader of
the group which has campaigned to find out what happened to thousands of
their sons and daughters who disappeared in the 1976-1983 dictatorship. 
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/053912.htm

July 4 Virus Hoax Threatens MP3 Files Preying on the guilt - and
gullibility - of digital music swappers, an electronic message
circulated the Internet today warning of a ticking time bomb planted on
the PCs of Napster users.  The press release, which was distributed by
e-mail and posted in three Usenet discussion groups devoted to music,
announced that on July 4th, American Independence Day, computers around
the planet will crash and all MP3 music files on them will be
obliterated.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167434.html

Hacker wages war on the waves As the US Navy announces a $4.1bn attempt
to secure the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI), hackers have issued a
warning that Navy websites are next on the list of targets.  The
five-year project to secure the NMCI, which consists of 350,000 desktops
and 200 networks, dispersed around the world, focuses on controlling
virus outbreaks and killing malicious code.  The server infrastructure
for the NMCI will be consolidated into a small number of server farms to
minimise the network access points available to attackers.  Last year
the Navy detected 23,662 hacking attempts on its networks, but since the
kick-off of its multi-million security efforts, it has spotted only 125
breaches.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1123521

Web firms scramble to obey privacy law Scores of online companies could
find themselves in violation of new financial privacy rules that take
effect Sunday amid widespread uncertainties over their scope, legal
experts say.  Growing fears over ambiguities in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley
Act have drawn a belated flurry of notification efforts from several
companies that offer services that might fall under the law.  But for
many, that realization may come too late.  "As a matter of law, there
will be tens of thousands of companies that aren't in compliance the day
after tomorrow," said Reed Freeman, an attorney at Collier Shannon
Scott, a Washington-based law firm.  "This is a problem because the
agencies have interpreted the law to go way beyond what Congress had in
mind...There is a provision that arguably can cover software."
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6418403.html

Your boss knows you're reading this Employee privacy in the United
States is under siege as old rules for what employers can and cannot
monitor give way to a regime of everyday observation, patchy legal
protections and conflicting business priorities.  Software that pores
over intimate e-mail correspondences, tracks worker performance or
thwarts employee theft has narrowed the realm of privacy for employees
in offices, factories, on the road or telecommuting from home. 
Three-quarters of U.S.  businesses now electronically monitor employees
in some fashion, double the rate of just five years ago, according to a
recent study by the American Management Association, a New York-based
corporate training and consulting group.  Meet the downside of the
low-cost, easy-to-use technologies that have powered the technology
revolution of recent years. 
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5084025,00.html

Cisco router bug threatens Net security Networking hardware maker Cisco
Systems and the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination
Center have warned of a bug in Cisco routers that could allow hackers to
disrupt Internet traffic or intercept sensitive information.  The bug,
revealed Thursday, allows an attacker to gain control of any Cisco
router running certain operating software.  Routers are devices that
control how data moves around the Internet.  Malicious attackers could
stop Internet traffic, intercept information such as passwords and
credit card numbers, or redirect traffic from Web sites. 
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5093506,00.html
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/167475.html
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/06/29/cisco.flaw.idg/index.html

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