contributed by Simple Nomad
Despite what has been published by some overzealous media outlets 'Coolio' is not a suspect in the recent DDoS attacks. While admitting to defacing several hundred web sites including dare.org and rsa.com he has denied any involvement in the DDoS attacks. The FBI has said that they doubt he is responsible for the attacks. While Coolio's computer and other belongings have been confiscated no charges have yet been filed.

ZD Net

contributed by acopalyse
The Gatsby (Jonathan Bosanac) has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison. He was also ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution to three telephone companies. As a member of the 'PhoneMasters' Gatsby and others perpetrated one of the largest telephone fraud activities ever committed. The crimes took place more than five years ago. Friends say the man's life has since turned around. He's been working as a computer consultant.

Associated Press - via Fox News

contributed by evenprime
Last week's alleged DoS attack on National Discount Brokers was later determined to be a third-party software incompatibility. Chairman Dennis Marino said last week the site outages "had the earmarks of a hacker attack." (Our sites down? We must be under attack!)

Reuters - via ZD Net
Wired

contributed by acopalyse
Internet Gold, an Israeli ISP, said Sunday that cyber vandals had briefly paralyzed the new Microsoft Corp. web site on Saturday. www.msn.co.il was evidently hit with so much traffic that access was slowed for about an hour. Evidently the attack was aimed at a separate site and was only being channeled through the Microsoft site. (There is a severe lack of information in this article.)

Reuters - via ZD Net

contributed by acopalyse
Italian Giuseppe Russo, 34, and his wife, Croatian Sandra Elazar, 33, have been arrested in Sicily after obtaining the numbers to some 1,000 credit cards and going on a costly spending and gambling spree. They used the cards over several months and recently began to play the lottery to transform the credit into cash. They gambled away 1.5 billion lire (S$1.3 million), and the winnings were paid into bank accounts.

The Straits Times

contributed by Dan
The medical and genealogy records of every man, woman and child within Iceland are now the property of a private medical research company known as DeCode. It is hoped that the records will help researchers to fight disease. Critics worry about the loss of privacy and possible breaching of doctor patient confidentiality.

CNN

contributed by richardm
When asked if he talked with his daughter Chelsea via Email while she was in college, US President Bill Clinton replied "I don't do e-mail with Chelsea, Absolutely not -- I don't think it's secure." (Evidently online privacy carries a little more weight with Bill than I thought.)

San Jose Mercury News

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After a nearly four months hiatus issue #22 of SET has been released.
f41th magazine issue 12 is now available.
Digital Defiance 5 is now available as well.

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