contributed by Evil Wench
A file containing credit card numbers, expiration dates, names and addresses was found last year on a US government website. The thief has been traced back to a European country but it has not been revelaed which one. It is also not been revealed which online service the numbers came from or which government agency was unwittingly storing the numbers. The incident has been confirmed by the Secret Service but first came to light when a bank employee notified reporters. The bank received the notice of the credit card heist from Visa however failed to notify its card holders.

MSNBC

contributed by webmaster
A group called DDoS-BR is spreading denial of service attacks against Brazilian government networks. The Brazilian Supreme Court and the National Telecommunications Agency web sites have been shutdown for most of the week due to the attacks. The Brazilian authorities are looking forward legislation that will soon be approved which might give the federal police enough power to investigate and arrest electronic criminals. (Hopefully they have the knowledge to use that power wisely.)

SecureNet - In Spanish

contributed by macki
Five years to the day after Bernie S. was arrested at gunpoint and subjected to nearly 17 months of imprisonment by the United States Secret Service, agents of the USSS have again begun some kind of cat and mouse game, the nature of which has yet to be revealed.

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contributed by Evil Wench
The U.S. Secret Service and Citicorp, a unit of New York-based Citigroup Inc., are working together to develop a pilot program to fight identity theft and other types of e-commerce fraud. The program will devise a strategy to identify suspicious e-commerce activities, including forged identities and other schemes used to commit bank and credit fraud.

Computer World
US Treasury Dept. - Press Release

contributed by McIntyre
The Computer Museum History Center, a non-profit entity dedicated to the preservation and celebration of computing history, will be having a lecture series entitled "Early Computer Crime". Speakers include Whitfield Diffie, John Markoff, Peter Neumann and Cliff Stoll. The Lecture will be held on Thursday, March 23, 2000 at NASA Ames Research Center Auditorium, Moffett Field, Mountain View, CA. It is requested that RSVPs be received by Monday March 20. (Sounds like fun. I would like to cheer some the speakers and heckle others.)

The Computer Museum

contributed by William Knowles
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Palmer said that in an effort to get better training for the people they already have and in an effort to attract more qualified applicants the Police will conduct a staff exchange with private industry. The commissioner will also establish an Electronic Crime Steering Committee to evaluate Australia's capacity to fight electronic crime and will develop an Australian Law Enforcement Electronic Crime Strategy by mid summer.

The Age

contributed by Sciri
Hot on the trail of the PlayStation2 being able to play Region 1 discs is the Apex AD-600A, a DVD/VCD/CD/MP3 player that can disable CSS, Region and Macrovision settings after entering a simple code (Preferences -> Step -> Prev Track -> Next Track).

Review of the Apex-600A
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