contributed by Code Kid
A story that HNN reported on last week has finnally made it to the mainstream. MSNBC is now reporting that Aeon Labs has discovered that ProMail is indeed a Trojan that will steal information from your system and secretly mail it to free account email address.

Aeon Labs
MSNBC

contributed by cluebie
I was really trying to ignore this whole mess. First a Belgium garment manufacturer makes extremely disparaging remarks about hackers on its web site. Then it looks like someone may have defaced their web page, then Leander Kahney of Wired Online writes a story about it all that totally screws up the words hacker and cracker. I am kind of surprised that the defaced page has still not been fixed 12 hours later. This whole mess just reeks of marketing.

Kipling
Wired

contributed by Megan A. Haquer
A top law graduate from the National University of Taiwan was recently arrested and is suspected of breaking into the real time pricing systems of several brokerage houses. The individual used stolen data over the last 12 months to sell short on several stocks and made over $300,000(US). He is also suspected of blackmailing several brokerages who sent out false information about various stocks for financial gain by threatening to go public with the knowledge.

Internet News

contributed by Eric
Want to know why IT executives are clueless when it comes to security concepts? This tutorial from CIO Magazine creates confusion rather than clarity. It would be funny, if your CIO wasn't reading it.

CIO Magazine

contributed by Arik
Well, it started off OK but this weeks Doonesbury strip seems to be going down hill fast. Todays edition mentions "Tracing the exploit" and "ISP number" groooaaannn. Well you can read it for your self.

Doonesbury- I still haven't found a better link.

contributed by Code Kid
Are you an active duty or reserve military member or a DoD civilian employee with a Top Secret clearance or have access to sensitive compartmented information? Well guess what? You have to reaffirm your commitment to protect classified information. Evidently the first time was not good enough.

Defense Link

contributed by Anonymous
Cracked
Besides the Kipling site mentioned above we also recieved notification that these two sites had also been compromised:
http://www.cablevision.com.ve/
http://www.des-con-systems.com/