contributed by weld pond
Using the FTP port as a point of entry, someone using the handle Exiled Dave, defaced the Orange County Register's website late last month. The intruder altered three different articles on the newspaper's website that covered Jason Diekman's arrest for allegedly breaking into NASA's computer system. This appears to be the first reported "subversion of information attack." The potential for the proliferation of this type of attack puts the online news provider industry on alert.

Inside.com

contributed by pyle
Hillary Clinton and Rick Lazio agreed to disagree with Federal Bill 602P during a Senate debate over the weekend. The Federal Bill 602P, states email senders will be charged 5 cents per sent email. Ironically, the bill doesn't even exist. Never has and hopefully never will. Imagine that - all that angry debating over an urban legend. However embarrassing it may have proved to be for the candidates, it could have been far worse on their reputations had they supported the bill.

Wired
USA Today
Transcript of Debate from ClueBot.com

contributed by weld pond
The "Spyware Control and Privacy Protection Act" has been introduced by Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C. to address the need for customer notification of the presence of spyware. The bill demands a notice be sent to customers detailing the existence of spyware in a software product at which time they can choose whether or not they wish to enable it. One of the exceptions to this rule would be for employers who wish to monitor the online activities of their employees.

Newsbytes

contributed by laney
The "White House for Kids" page appears to directly violate the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) according to Privacilla.org. Most notably, the website fails to obtain "verifiable parental consent," which is considered a paramount part of COPPA. The White House has said it is working on fully complying with COPPA, an act they claim to strongly support.

Newbytes
Report from Privacilla.com

contributed by weld pond
To understand the current policies that CERT and others have for vulnerability disclosures, we need to take a step back and understand the history of security flaws and how we find out about them. Vendors didn't always listen (some say they still don't). Exploits were only available underground (some would like it to stay that way). Rik Farrow takes us back to see the events that have shaped the way vulnerabilities are disclosed today.

Network Magazine