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

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

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

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

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 Version

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

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

contributed by telephrk
Jordon Cracked
This is presumably the first web site crack in the country of Jordan.
http://www.go.com.jo