contributed by evenprime
The Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) is still be pushed by powerful software companies through state legislatures across the nation. UCITA legislation would give software companies the ability to 'turn off' software remotely, it would provide for license agreements that could be changed with only an email notice, and it would ban critical software reviews through stronger license agreements. The software industry is aggressively lobbying for this legislation, saying that it is an overdue modernization of contract law to keep up with the pace of electronic commerce. It is expected that several states will actually pass this draconian law.

LA Times

Richard Stallman has written some interesting comments on UTICA, why it is bad, and why it should be defeated in every state.

Open Letter From Richard Stallman

For more information on UTICA see also:
4cite
Bad Software

contributed by Brian
All of Yahoo.com was unreachable for several hours yesterday after what company officials claimed was a massive denial of service attack. While officials stress that there where no successful intrusions there still seems to be some confusion over what exactly happened. Some reports seem to indicate a bandwidth consumption attack with either Trinoo or TNF while other reports say that individual routers where pushed over and Wired says that it may have been due to 'misconfigured equipment'. (I hope this is straightened out soon so that the rest of us can protect ourselves.)

NY Times
Associated Press - via Nando Times
MSNBC
Industry Standard - via Yahoo
Wired
BBC

contributed by Weld Pond
New Hack City, a secret hacker hangout in San Francisco, is the subject of a new eleven minute documentary by Joshua Backer. The film has been shown at the Rhode Island School of Design Senior Film Festival and the Animation/Video Festival of 1999 It has also received the prestigious RISD Murphy's Law Award. The film offers an interesting look into the private lives and minds of some well known hackers.

Underground Films

contributed by raybanth
An individual using the name Curador posted credit cards, claimed to be stolen from shoppingthailand.com, to Yahoo and then Geocities, last week. he was barely able to stay one step ahead of the sites taking the pages down. Officials in Thailand are now trying to determine if he did in fact break into the sites as he claimed. A review of the sites in question found that they stored the credit card numbers on the mail server.

Bangkokpost.net - Warning, it is slow

contributed by jess
Contrasting slightly with the previously released L0pht FAQ, @Stake has released its own FAQ regarding the recent merger of the two companies.

@Stake Merger FAQ

contributed by turtlex
By downloading the latest scripts from the web students at San Jose State University who are enrolled in the Sandia National Laboratory College Cyber Defenders Program are learning to become glorified script kiddies. (Maybe they are learning other stuff but that isn't mentioned in this article.)

Washington Post

contributed by Evil Wench
How long do grudges last in cyberspace? An interesting story covering the activities of one NASA tech guy trying to protect his network and a band of cyber intruders trying to break in.

Forbes

contributed by Space Rogue
An interesting question and answer session between Adam Penenberg of Forbes magazine and Space Rogue, editor of the Hacker News Network.

Forbes