contributed by evenprime
Agents for the FBI have identified two possible suspects in last week's massive denial of service attacks.
Fox News

Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, named as Possible Launch Sites
Computers at Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, and unidentified systems in Germany may have been used as possible launch sites for the massive denial of service attacks.
Associated Press - via Yahoo

Mixter Witch Hunt Begins
The author of one of the tools that may have been used in the attack is wanted for questioning by NIPC. This after sources traced back one of the attacking machines to Germany. (Since Mixter lives in Germany he must be guilty, great logic.)
CNN
Reuters - via Excite
C|Net

Attacks Have Little Impact on Shoppers
Early feedback from Web merchants nailed by hackers this week suggests that high-profile denial-of-service attacks that struck Yahoo!, Amazon.com, eBay and others (including ZDNet) are having little impact on online shopping during the busy Valentine's Day period.
ZD Net

Questions Raised About NIPC Tools
Some people have doubts about closed-source tools from NIPC to search for DDoS agents.
ZD Net

contributed by Joey
As many as 20 top Internet executives are expected to meet with President Clinton, Attorney General Janet Reno and security advisers Tuesday. The Internet-security summit with high-tech industry leaders will be used to plot a response to this week's stunning attacks on the Web's most popular sites. (Hope they invite some people who understand the technology so that they don't overreact and do something stupid.)

WSJ Interactive Edition - via ZD Net

contributed by Adam
This New York Times articles makes a lot of assumptions which we disagree with. The first is that people who write security tools should be prosecuted as well as the people that use them. This is like blaming car manufacturers for auto accidents. When industry has proven time and time again that it is not responsive to security holes unless it can be proven that the holes do in fact exist there is a need, however dangerous, for this sort of tool. As for the article's assumption that the line between good and bad is somehow getting blurrier we feel that it has never been more clear.

NY Times

contributed by rigel
Seven Italian cyber criminals were caught by the Italian Financial Police last Friday. They have been accused of breaking into Swiss Banks, the Universita di Catania, Toronto University and others. They have also been accused of somehow siphoning money from inter bank electronic transfers. The detectives in the case also suspect that the group may have broken into web sites for money. They have been charged with spying and theft of industrial secrets. Officials are still investigating. (This information is from a bad translation and may not be 100% accurate.)

Ilmessaggero - Italian

contributed by Joe
RealNames, a company that substitutes complicated Web addresses with simple keywords, is warning its users that its customer database may have been stolen, and that user credit card numbers and passwords may have been accessed. (Why are companies storing this information? After the transaction is complete they have no need to store the number.)

C|Net
Wired

contributed by Ted
Envisioneering Group, a Long Island technology consulting company, claimed that one of its servers was hijacked on two separate days to launch a denial of service attack on a major Web site. This particular denial of service attack was done with large volumes of email. Envisioneering Group President Richard Doherty claimed that their servers where 'hijacked by hackers'. (Sounds like a misconfigued mail server that allowed spam relays to me.)

CNN

contributed by warpathdoc
Reporters at Sm@rt reseller claim to have received an internal Microsoft memo that says that Windows 2000 has 63,000 bugs. Windows 2000 is scheduled to ship in four days. Microsoft spokes people said that "All software ships with issues." (I guess since everyone else does it that makes it OK?)

Sm@rt Reseller

contributed by Jay
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft has captured a lovely view of a bright, heart-shaped mesa in the south polar region of the red planet.

Malin Space Science Systems