contributed by Mudge
The renowned hacker think tank L0pht Heavy Industries has merged with the newly formed internet security services company @Stake, Inc. @Stake has assembled a diverse team of extreme talent from premier organizations including Forrester Research, the L0pht, Cambridge Technology Partners, and Compaq Computer. Mudge, from the L0pht, has said that @Stake's vendor neutrality, combined with open lines of communication allows the L0pht to remain true to their roots which is focused on security research and execution which shatters industry myths and builds a totally new standard. @Stake executives will be participating in the major security trade show, RSA 2000, scheduled for January 16-20 in San Jose.

Press Release
@Stake Inc.
L0pht Heavy Industries

Boston Globe
Associated Press - via San Jose Mercury News
Reuters - via Excite
MSNBC

contributed by betty
Air Force Gen. Richard Myers told a Pentagon briefing that he thinks cyberwarfare should take its place along side bombs, cruise missiles and attack helicopters. Myers currently commands Colorado based U.S. Space Command, which is responsible for the cyber defense of DoD systems. Later this year the computer network attack research team will formally take shape at Space Command Headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base. (Space Command? Sounds like something out of a sceince fiction novel.)

Reuters - via MSNBC
Wired

contributed by Ted
U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller has criticized the U.S. Army's efforts to keep its public Web site secure. The Judge said the Army's effort, or lack of it, could effect the amount of restitution Mindphaser (Chad Davis) is ordered to pay. Mindphaser has pleaded guilty to defacing the server last June 28th. Stadtmueller asked Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Klumb to get more information on the matter before Mindphaser's scheduled sentencing hearing in March. (Wonder if he will mention that the Army was warned about the problem with their server weeks in advance?)

Associated Press - via San Jose Mercury News
HNN Archive of US Army Defacement

contributed by Evil Wench
The Federal Aviation Administration has said that even though they hired foreign nationals to fix their Y2K computer problems that their systems where not compromised as charged by the General Accounting Office. The GAO report released Jan. 4 said that the FAA had not consistently required appropriate background checks on contractor employees who reviewed and fixed air traffic control software for Y2K compliance. The FAA says that although foreign nationals may have been used no back doors where inserted into the code.

Federal Computer Week

contributed by no0ne
Peng Yuan Han, now 18, will not be spending any time in jail for electronically breaking into the computer systems of Singapore's National Computer Board (NCB), Ministry of Education (MOE) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Instead he was fined SG$8,000 because he was a teenager when the crimes were committed in 1997.

The Straits Times

contributed by kingpin
NonCon, Inc., has release PalmCrack 1.0 which is capable of checking UNIX and NT passwords against a dictionary and decrypt certain Cisco router passwords. The release of this software was delayed until after Jan 1, 2000 in accordance with President Clinton's request

Noncon

contributed by mphantasm
Police departments in San Francisco, Berkeley, Richmond, and Albany have reported intruders on their communications systems. Screaming obscenities and making false emergency calls over reserved police radio frequencies are just some of the issues involved.

APB News