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News for
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contributed by Sili
The Wireless Privacy Enhancement Act of 1999 has been entered into the US
House of Representatives by Rep. Heather Wilson (NM). This bill will make
it illegal to manufacture or sell any device designed or easily modifiable
that will receive or decode personal radio communications including,
public safety bands (police, fire, etc...) cellular, or POCSAG (pagers).
By nature these radio communications can pass through your body but by law
you will not be able to listen to them. This bill is being cosponsored by
12 other representatives. The bill has already been referred to the
Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection. The
time to act is now! HNN urges you to write your congress person and voice
your opinion.
Full text
of H.R. 514
Rep. Wilson's Web
Site
Email your
Congress Person
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contributed by J Booth
Analyzer (Ed Tenenbaum) the Israeli teenager who broke into
Pentagon and NASA systems was indicted Tuesday by an Israeli court.
Analyzer and four other other accomplices could face a maximum
sentence of three years in prison if convicted. None of the
crackers are in custody.
Nando
Times
NY
Times
Wired
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contributed by Code Kid
Numerous FTP servers contain a remote buffer overflow that could give an
attacker root access. Any system with ProFTPD (1.2.0pre1) or
Wuarchive ftpd (2.4.2-academ[BETA-18]) are vulnerable. Wuarchive is
installed by default on most Linux distributions.
Netect Security
Advisory
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contributed by poopf
Discovery magazine has written a major article about spying in the
digital age with sections on Information warehouses selling your
data, where to buy 'spy' gear, how and where to setup your 'spy
cams', and what the future holds.
Discovery
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Rational says NO to security
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contributed by Dr. Mudge
On Tuesday L0pht Heavy Industries
released a security advisory on Rational Software's ClearCase product. A
sympathetic netizen had a previous run-in with Rational on security
matters and forwarded some correspondence with Rationals Support staff.
These emails and comments from Dr. Mudge are presented here. Evidently
Rational doesn't think to highly of security issues saying that they will
not fix the problem. Choice quote from Rationals email ""Very nice. Do
you hack government installations and steal nuclear missle launch codes
too? How about hacking into Rational's HR database and giving me a
raise??"
Rational Software's Response[clearcase.html - MISSING]
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contributed by Space Rogue
A former cracker issues a warning to the younger generation, "Don't do
it." After being arrested by the RCMP when he was 15, Robert Masses, now
24, says what he did was wrong and that he caused a lot of problems.
The Toronto Star
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FBI says danger is Internal
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contributed by mortel
A Director of the FBI, Louis Freeh, says that the largest danger
corporations face to their data is from the inside. This article quotes
from exhacker turned security consultant Dark Tangent (Jeffrey
Moss).
PC
World
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contributed by Bronc Buster
LoU or not LoU
Yesterday HNN posted a story about Legions of the Underground going legit
and starting a web hosting/security consulting business. This is the same
group who recently declared cyber war on China and Iraq. We received an
email from Bronc Buster a member of LoU who said this was not true and
that he had no idea what was going on at www.legions.org. While the web
site does say
"Legions of the Underground" on its main page HNN has not been able to
contact the webmaster of the site for confirmation.
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