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News for
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FAO Leaking Personal Info.
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contributed by cipher
Have you bought anything from FAO Schwarz lately? A teddy bear or G.I. Joe
perhaps? If so then your name, address, phone number, and email address
may have been leaked to anyone with the right URL. We have notified FAO
Schwarz but have yet to hear back from them on this issue.
The best part is taken directly from the FAO FAQ
How Safe is it to order with FAO online?
Once again FAO has gone the extra mile for you... our loyal
customers.
Not only have we firewalled our server but we have installed a SSL
(Secure Sockets Layer) to guarantee the security and privacy of
our
patrons. Ordering online with FAO is now safer than ordering over
the
phone or fax.
Firewalls and SSL are not going to be enough if you are going to
misconfigure things.
FAO
Schwarz - Try it and see for yourself (Hopefully they will fix this
soon)
You do have to manually change the "userid" field in the URL to get
different info. Try "userid=2015470" hehehe
Late Update
Wired
picks up the story and wouldn't ya know it, the above link stops
working. Go figure.
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contributed by Shine-on
Someone broke into the United Media's web site that hosed the Dilbert
comic strip and stole the email database that contained email dating back
to March, 1998. They then proceeded to spam the entire list and offered to
sell the list for $5 a copy. Makes you wonder who is storing your email
and why people keep this information on insecure servers.
Dilbert Zone
News Bytes
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contributed by Reverend oSiRis
Yesterday we reported on a 'Hacker Challange" sponsored by interave.net.
Reverend oSiRis was the first to get into the targeted system,
geezer.interave.net. No word yet on how he got in. The box has been
patched and the contest is continuing. Organizers are asking people to
please follow the rules and only attack the appropriate boxes. It looks
like the only prize you get is the glory. Who could ask for more?
Interave.net
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contributed by Carole Fennelly
SunWorld has a pretty good article on what audits should and shouldn't be.
Definitely worth a read for those in the 'biz'.
Sun
World
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contributed by Space Rogue
The US Department of Justice is seeking an increase to its FY2000 budget
to help fight cyberterrorism. 122 million dollars in part will be used to
pay for 60 lawyers to help prosecute attackers of the nation's critical
infrastructure.
Federal
Computer Week
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contributed by Weld Pond
This has been reported everywhere already but it is way cool. It describes
the computer and network environment to be installed on the International
Space Station. Looks like they are going to use 10Base2 cabling. Yum.
CNN
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It takes a lot to kill an AS/400.
This one was dropped down a flight of stairs, run over by a forklift, and
hosed down with a firehouse but the data was still recoverable.
Maximum Reality let us know about a petition that has been formed asking
Sony to stop its lawsuit against Connectix. The petition is sponsored by
the Playstation Users
Group
ESPeONage wrote in to tell us about some new
Y2K scams. Con Artists are trying to persuade certain email
recipients to transfer their bank account money and give it over to them
for safe keeping during the 'Y2K Crisis'
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contributed by Anonymous
Cracked Sites ?
http://www.mgmt.purdue.edu/ - Second time this week
http://www.sonic.net/~tron/host1.html
http://host1.supply-unet.ocn.ne.jp
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