contributed by Macki
MafiaBoy, a fifteen year old teenager from Montreal, has been released on bail after appearing Monday in Youth Court for having been accused of launching a DDoS attack on CNN. He was released under bail conditions that included a ban on connecting to the Internet or going to libraries, universities, stores and other places with public access to computers or computer equipment. An RCMP investigator said the boy was tracked through traces he left of his computer activity. (The interesting part is that he has only been charged with the CNN attack which means he either covered his tracks rather well on the others or there are more perpetrators yet to be found.)

Nando Times

MafiaBoy IRC Logs
2600 Magazine has posted what they say are IRC logs of someone posing as Mafiaboy to investigators. Hopefully the FBI is not using these same fake logs as evidence.

2600.com

contributed by William Knowles
A Federal Judge has ruled that Kevin Mitnick can not speak at the Utah Information Technologies Association conference in Salt Lake City. The Judge felt that the conference was "consulting or advising" which is prohibited by his probation agreement. Organizers are hoping to fill the slot with an industry executive.

Desert News

contributed by Weld Pond
We have seen numerous press reports regarding a recent meeting at the Old Executive office building in support of the Critical Information Assurance Office. Several top level officials attended the meeting. Probably the best description of the event we have found was posted by Russ Cooper to NTBugTraq.

NT BugTraq

contributed by mortel
Applications for grants for the Federal Cyber Services program should be released by the National Science Foundation next month. The grants will be used by Colleges and Universities to award scholarships to students studying information security.

Federal Computer Week

contributed by Zorro
The California Polytechnic State University has charged computer engineering sophomore Paul Reed, with a violation of Title V of the California Code of Regulations. Mr. Reed was attempting to find a machine within a DHCP range that was located at a company he worked for off campus but he conducted his scan from his dorm room using the CalPoly computer network.

Free Paul

contributed by root66
Net4music, which has been given access to one million of EMI's songs will start to post the sheet music to the Net by the end of April. Net4music will sell sheet music at $3.95 per download but will use use a software lock to only allow five printouts of the music. (Five? All people need is one copy, and access to a photocopier.)

Wired