contributed by Sangfroid
Reuters and Wired Online articles are referencing a print story in Newsweek that claims that President Clinton has authorized a "top-secret" plan against Slobodan Milosevic. One part of this plan would use "computer hackers" to attack his foreign bank accounts. Reuters also claimed that Newsweek said that the report instructed the CIA to wage "cyberwar" against Milosevic.

Now there are still a few questions that are not answered in this news article. If the report was so top-secret how did NewsWeek learn of it? Won't other countries be rather upset when we "hack" into their banks? And aren't his bank accounts frozen anyway, so what is the point of breaking in? News week even admits that it does not have access to the original report. Once again until we see confirmation HNN will treat this story as extremely suspect.

Newsweek
Reuters- Via Yahoo
Wired

contributed by erewhon
The hacker convention RootFest was held in Minneapolis over the weekend. Evidently this scared the local authorities enough to shut down several vulnerable points in its computer network. The city respond to the three day hacker convention by shutting down some older dial-up modem lines. (Wonder if they will come back online afterwards?) Other reports also indicate that the Minneapolis City Police also shut down its computer network over the weekend.

APB Online
WCCO Channel 4
RootFest
City of Minneapolis Action Plan

contributed by erewhon
Martin Brady, director of the Defense Signals Directorate in Canberra Austrailia has admitted that his country does participate in a secret spy organization known as UKUSA. This organization works with the intelligence agencies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the USA to intercept every fax, telex, e-mail, phone call, or computer data that is carried via commercial satellite communications. This global eavesdropping is known as Echelon

The Age

contributed by silicosis
Infomagic, the Linux company, and TwinForces, a NeXT/OpenStep company, have gotten together and opened a site called darwinlinux.com. They are offering programs that don't come with macosXserver but do come with standard Linux distros. Things like firewall software, DHCP, SAMBA, DNS, SSL, SSH, POP, IMAP etc. The interesting thing is that they are working on framework that will let everyone compile OpenBSD software with hardly any changes. d0pe.

Darwin Linux

contributed by Weld Pond
Worried that consumers PCs may be vulnerable to attack a consortium of the 15 largest US banks plan to open a lab to test PC Hardware and software. The Banking Industry Technology Secretariat, plan to open the lab this summer. (Its about time they started looking into this. Applications like Back Orifice have been around for what? over a year now? Sounds like someone is just covering their ass.)

C|Net

contributed by Space Rogue
The distributed SETI project has now started using teams. HNN now has its own team with the SETI project. So if you want to help finds some aliens in outer space, not mention a really cool screen saver, then join our team! If you want to help out but not use your own email address then just use 'contact@hackernews.com'

SETI@Home

contributed by Cruciphux
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HWA Hax0r News

contributed by Anonymous
Cracked
It has been a busy weekend for some people. These are the sites that have been reported to HNN as cracked. Please remember that this is the rumours section. While most of these are verified we can't verify them all.
http://www.elitehackers1.net
http://www.ruckstuhlgaragen.ch
http://www.gibson.com
http://www.e.gov
http://www.ebuy.gov
http://codesign.scu.edu
http://www.castnetcom.com
http://plan.arch.usyd.edu.au
http://www.4women.gov
http://www.clic.nl
http://www.etnews.co.kr
http://www.hackvp.net
http://eval1.oit.unc.edu
http://elkriver.k12.mn.us
http://jutr.gov.my
http://nc-101.hypermart.net
http://www.barekids.com
http://www.holsey.com
http://www.team-liquid.com
http://www.metro.seoul.kr
http://learnweb.harvard.edu
http://ngpsun.ngpc.state.ne.us
http://www.buscominc.com
http://www.columbuslumber.com
http://www.cpavision.org
http://www.elitexposure.com
http://www.superiortours.com