contributed by Evil Wench
Exploit code currently circulating on the internet allows someone to send email from a WebTV user's box without the user's knowledge and can also be used to compromise the security of users' stored mail. The exploit is being embedded in posts in WebTV's alt.discuss newsgroups, emails, and web pages. It then directs any WebTV box that loads the page to send an email message to an address set in the code.

Net4TV
Wired

contributed by evenprime
For the most part web defacements over the last year have been nothing but vandalism executed by kids looking for bragging rites amongst their peer group. Hactivists struggled throughout 1999 to find an identity and separate themselves from this activity. MSNBC take a look at these two issues and more in their report.

MSNBC

contributed by mphantasm
Since Y2K is over the FBI and other agencies have set their sites on terrorists, hostile nations, criminals, and other cyber evil-doers as they prepare to protect our nations infrastructure.

CNN

contributed by Weld Pond
Privacy advocate and cyber whistle-blower Richard Smith has given a rather extensive interview to the Boston Globe. Now retired from Cambridge based Phar-Lap Software, a company he headed for 13 years, Smith looks for privacy loopholes online.

Boston Globe

contributed by dave920
Black Market Enterprises conducted an interview with Adam Penenberg of Forbes Magazine as part of the new section of BME Online: HYPE. Penenberg is the author of numerous technical articles including ones about AntiOnline, Se7en and other underground events. The article includes personal impressions of Penenberg as well as the interview itself. The article can be found at:

Black Market Enterprises

contributed by cult hero
The Korea Information Security Agency (KISA) (who?) discovered a Y2K computer bug that was in the process of attacking 477 other systems. (Something must have gotten lost in the translation because first they call it a Y2K bug then they label it as a worm and a virus, which is it?)

Digital Chosun

contributed by bart
A standard service disruption report filed with the Federal Communications Commission by Sprint lists an outage on December 22, 1999 that includes "Las Vegas, NV - Pahrump, NV - Military Base 'AREA 51'". (Hmmm, I guess even places that don't exist need phone service.)

Federal Communications Commission - PDF file

contributed by GothstaiN
InET Magazine #4 has been released with articles about the SS7 Telephony Protocol, IPv6 crypto and security, Van Eck Devices, PIC's Programming, an Interview with Mudge from (L0pht) and more.

The special Christmas edition of HWA.hax0r.news Issue #48 has been released with an interview with Brazillian hacking group NFO (Nine Forty One group) member fickerguy.

InET
HWA.hax0r.news