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News for
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contributed by Space Rogue
Another misconfigured search engine allows anyone on the net to grab
peoples personal greetings sent via an electronic valentine from the
Hallmark web site. Hallmark claims that only information a year old was
accessible. Some of the quotes in article are beautiful, "The lack of
security surprised customers and executives at the Kansas City-based
greeting-card company" Surprise! "It was a programming error,"
said company spokeswoman Julie O'Dell. "We certainly are committed to
providing privacy." Of course it was a programming error but don't
you think someone should have checked? And why the hell are they keeping
information on the web server that is over a year old? "I had no
idea," said Gary Harders of Chicago, who sent one of the cards to his
wife. "I assumed it was private." HELLO! "Engineers thought they
disabled the system last year when they launched a new program offering
more security. I guess no one bothered to check. Sorry, but simple
misconfigued search engines that are probably a year old piss me off.
Hallmark has said that the problem is corrected.
Hallmark
Kansas
City Star
Nando
Times
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contributed by erehwon
Vienna Virginia police have arrested a 15 year old freshman for breaking
into the computers at Clemson University and attempting to break into
systems at NASA. The Vienna student was arrested Feb. 1 on charges of
felony computer trespass and misdemeanor computer fraud. Authorities in
South Carolina have arrested Steven Ray McAlister, 18, of Pelzer, S.C.,
and charged him with conspiracy to commit computer crime, naming the
Vienna youth as his co-conspirator.
Washington
Post
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contributed by Code Kid
In yet another case of a misconfigured search engine the University of
Michigan Medical Center has made several thousand patient records
available to anyone with a keyboard.
Nando
Times
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$1.4 billion is chump change
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contributed by ManInBlack
A senior DOD official has said that the $1.4 billion promised by
President Clinton to fight cyberterrorism won't fund as many new programs
as initially believed.
Federal
Computer Week
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contributed by Frenchie
The government of Quebec wants hackers to test the security of its
information networks.
A separate laboratory will be set up using a similar setup to the real
world for the hackers to bang on.
Montreal
Gazette
Yahoo News- French
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contributed by Juarez Dud3
The Information Technology Protection Agency in Japan has announced that
the number of Virus damage incidents in the country where down by 14% for
the month of January and down 20% from the same time last year. The top
reported virus on the country was an Microsoft Excel macro virus known as
"Laroux".
Asia
Biz Tech
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contributed by 3l1t3 Hax0r
In light of continuing concerns that most of the information available to
the public on the
Internet poses a significant risk to DOD operations, the Defense
Department is planning a new round of World Wide Web site security
reviews. A recent exercise focusing on the problem of data aggregation
revealed that even non-intelligence professionals could easily glean
sensitive information from the large volume of data available on DOD's
Web sites.
Asia
Biz Tech
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contributed by telephrk
Jordon Cracked
This is presumably the first web site crack in the country of Jordan.
http://www.go.com.jo
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