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contributed by altomo
A long hard look at Global Hell and some of its members including
MostHated, ben-z, altomo, egodeath, nostalg1c, Mnemonic and others.
Global Hell or gH has been linked to well over 100 web page defacements
and one of its members, Mindphasr (Chad Davis), has been arrested by the
FBI.
MSNBC
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contributed by prozac
Bruce Schneier, noted cryptography expert, has some interesting down to
earth comments on the "NSA" key in the Microsoft CryptoAPI.
Counterpane Systems
OSALL has posted the first of several installments of an interview with
Andrew Fernandes who was the first person to bring the "NSA" key to the
publics attention.
OSALL
- Interview with Andrew Fernandes
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contributed by Code Kid
A day that had the potential to be as bad as Y2K has come and gone with
barely a whimper. 9999, was once also used as an end of file character
on some systems and it was feared that todays date may trigger
unexpected results.
Nando
Times
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contributed by McIntyre
A group calling itself the 'Level Seven Crew' defaced the web page of US
Chinese Embassy on Tuesday.
CNN
CNN-
Second Story
OSALL
- Interview with Vent from Level Seven Crew
HNN Defaced Pages Archive
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contributed by AlienPlague
A new Worm/Virus threat, named Cholera, may soon begin spreading
throughout the net but it hasn't yet been found in the wild. Cholera is
similar to Worm.ExploreZip in that will automatically send itself to any
e-mail address it finds. The worm includes a payload of the W32/CTX
virus.
Infoworld
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contributed by frost_frozen
Are computer users putting corporate data at risk? In light of the
recent HotMail hole some companies have started to block free email
services from their corporate networks. Some have gone so far to as to
prevent email forwarding and web access to such sites as Hotmail, Yahoo
Mail, or Excite Mail.
CNN
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contributed by Code Kid
Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., of the House Armed Services Committee, while
speaking at InfoWar Con, placed "cyberterrorism" at the top of his list
of modern threats to the American way of life. He placed this threat
above missile proliferation and weapons of mass destruction.
ZD
Net
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contributed by Weld Pond
The Philippine government is looking to beef up its online security of
government systems. This adverticle also boasts Network Associates as
some Internet savior. Interesting quote: "90 percent of computer systems
in the world are attacked and as much as 70 percent of these attacks
result in financial losses, with the average loss in the US at
US$84,000". Where do they get these numbers?
Computer
Currents
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contributed by TurTlex
U.S. Sen. Robert Bennett, the head of the U.S. Senate Special Committee
on the Year 2000 Technology Problem, has issued a warning that
industrial spies and others may use the Y2K issue to cause mayhem. This
article is unclear if the Senator was talking about Y2K coders who may
insert bad code along with the fixes or people who will take advantage
of existing holes and confusion to masquerade their attacks.
Computer
World
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