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News for
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contributed by acopalyse
NDB, an online broker, was cut off for more than an hour yesterday
because of what it said was an attack by computer vandals. National
Discount Broker Group, based in Jersey City, said that the company had
taken precautionary measures in light of recent attacks but that they
had clearly not worked. (Hmmmm, not a whole lot of technical
information here, who knows what really happened.)
New
York Times
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contributed by Evil Wench
John Koskinen, President Clinton's Year 2000 Czar told reporters that
the US and about a dozen other countries will work together to track any
automated-system failures sparked by a leap day next week. Leap days
occur only once every 400 years. No major system failures are expected.
Plans for the future of the state-of-the-art computer facility built for
the Y2K rollover have not yet been announced.
ZD
Net
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contributed by Evil Wench
The Commerce Department has confirmed that the new encryption export
policy does permit Daniel Bernstein to post his 'Snuffle' program to
the web without obtaining an export license. Snuffle is a piece of
strong encryption software that has been the subject of a free speech
lawsuit.
C|Net
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contributed by Evil Wench
Attorney General Janet Reno has rejected a bipartisan Senate proposal to
make a single government agency responsible for securing all federal
computer systems from cyber attacks. Reno acknowledged government
networks are at risk from cyber attacks, but said there is no simple
answer to the problem of security. (Or the FBI does not want to lose
this power.)
APB
News
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contributed by acopalyse
More than 200 vendors from all eight sectors of the economy classified
as critical came together to discuss the new Partnership for Critical
Infrastructure Security. The PCIS was formed last December under the
leadership of the Commerce Department. A critical part of the effort
will be sharing information, including potential vulnerabilities,
research and development, and best practices, across all eight
infrastructure sectors.
Federal
Computer Week
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contributed by The Dark Tangent
The Black Hat Briefings, a computer security show held in Las Vegas
before DEF CON each year, has made its 1999 speeches available on-line
for free. If you missed the conference last year, you can still watch
what happened with a Real Player 7 viewer and a 56k or better
connection. The speeches are available in both audio, and video formats.
The Black Hat Briefings
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contributed by H2K
Organizers for the Hope 2000 conference have posted all of the entries
in the H2K logo contest. They are still accepting online registrations
as well.
H2K
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