contributed by William Knowles
According to Arthur L. Money, the chief information officer of the US Defense Department, Mexican Zapatista guerrillas managed to breach the online security systems of some pentagon computers in 1998. Money said that the intruders used systems from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange to launch their attacks.

Agence France-Press - via Nando Times

contributed by Weld Pond
Online warez groups fighting amongst each other is now considered guerrilla warfare by authorities in Brazil. According to the daily O Globo the Brazilian Hacker Organization (OHB) and the Anti-OHB have been trading insults via web defacements for some time. The Sao Paulo Civil Police Cybercrime Unit is also following attacks by three other active organizations: Hatted Copr, InfernBr and Crime Boys.

EFE via COMTEX - via Northern Light

contributed by alan.hop
Serge Humpich was sentenced to a ten month suspended sentence after notifying the French bank, Cartes Bancaires, that its bank cards where vulnerable to fraud. Now the secret that Humpich discovered has been released to the Internet. Bank officials say that the potential for fraud or fake cards is small while security experts fear that the underground will flood the market with fake cards within weeks.

Reuters - via Yahoo

contributed by Weld Pond
Investigators are still sifting through mountains of log files but are having a rough time tracing the recent denial of service attacks against online giants Yahoo, ZD Net, CNN, and others. Officials still do not have any suspects and hope that more traditional methods will allow them to locate the culprit(s).

San Jose Mercury News

contributed by Evil Wench
In a report released on March 10th, the Associated Computer Software Copyright Society (ACCS) disclosed two recent cases of piracy involving Internet bulletin boards. A Hokkaido University student living in Sapporo was arrested for selling as many as 30 illegal copies of Microsoft's Office 2000 Professional and other software. He charged a total of 500,000 yen (US$4,693.51) for the CDR copies. A 24-year-old worker living in Takasaki, Gunma prefecture was also recently arrested for advertising and selling illegal software via an Internet bulletin board. He sold software to 20 people for 100,000 yen (US$938.70). He said that he began selling pirated software after he purchased some in the same way.

Asia Biz Tech

contributed by Weld Pond
Do the handles chosen by online hooligans chosen in an attempt to impose fear? Matt Richtel of the NY Times attempts to explore the meanings of some of the more glamorous handles of the online world. (To bad he completely misses the personal privacy angle. And what about entertainers like Sting, Madonna, John Couger, or Prince?)

NY Times

contributed by Weld Pond
At a recent congressional panel examining the threat to federal and private-sector computer networks cyber security experts blamed software manufacturers for failing to improve the security features of most consumer software.(People in the underground have been saying this for years.)

Reuters - via Excite