contributed by hantai and William Knowles
The FBI has acknowledged that their web site was hit with a denial of service attack which forced it off line for several hours on the 18th. Unfortunately there are almost no technical details in this article.

Associated Press - via San Jose Mercury News

contributed by indie slide
This article deals mostly with how a major player inside the Canadian Mafia was tracked down and arrested. The interesting part is the explanation of his arrest in which the police traced his fingerprints from a thrown away prepaid calling card. The article goes on to say how the police monitored the outgoing phone calls from 85 separate pay phones (a total of 170,000 calls) from businesses and malls he was known to visit in order to trap any calls he placed. (That's a lot of calls, wonder how many personal calls were accidentally listened to?)

National Post

contributed by Weld Pond
An interview with former spy Mike Frost appeared on 60 Minutes Sunday night. The interview covered the NSA's involvement with the global spy netowork known as Echelon. In traditional intelligence agency spin control, the NSA has issued a letter about the show to congress.

CBS
NSA letter to Congress

contributed by acopalyse
Serge Humpich, the 36 year-old engineer who discovered flaws in the chip-based security of French credit cards, has been sentenced to a suspended prison sentence of 10 months, 12,000 francs (approx. 1,200) in fines, and one symbolic franc in damages to the Groupement des Cartes Bancaires. After he had discovered significant flaws in the authentication system of French credit cards he attempted to sell the information to the Banks, who in turn conspired to have him arrested. (Instead of fixing the problem have the guy arrested, great strategy.)

The Register UK
The Liberation - French

contributed by knobcottage
All 0345, 0845, and 0800 numbers on the British Telecom network crashed from 11a.m. on February 26, until early hours of the next day, for 'unknown reasons' say British Telecom. 0345, 0845 numbers are those designated as local call charge numbers and are those used by the service industries and most ISP's. 0800 numbers are free numbers used for promotions. BT is still investigating the cause of the crash.

The Guardian Observer

contributed by mothy
The only ISP in the small middle eastern country of Qatar had at least one third of its customer information released to CD and sold on the streets of the capital city of Ad Doha. The ISP, QTel, denied the allegations until the information was made public.

Wired