contributed by Code Kid
Come and meet the Hackers. Secure Computing has officially announced Black Hat '99 the third annual meeting of the minds between security professionals, white and black hat hackers. (If you are deep in the Security business and can only go to one conference then this is it.) (And Microsoft is now a cosponsor, how ironic is that?)

PR Newswire
BlackHat

contributed by erewhon
In addition to revealing that China has stole numerous military secrets from the US the Cox Report, unclassified yesterday, blasts the Department of Energy on computer security. The report blamed the DOE for giving to much computer access to foreign nationals. The issue is access to systems or information covered by export control laws. While the systems or software are not physically exported, use of the technology by some foreign nationals is called a "deemed export" and is covered under Department of Commerce rules.

Federal Computer Week

contributed by Suinuir
The call to remove bomb making information from the net in the wake of the Littleton tragedy is getting louder and louder every day. It is a shame to see such censorship of information when what is needed is better education. Once again we encourage you to grab what information you can before it disappears.

Nando Times
303.org - textfiles.com Mirror Site

Amazon.com Books:
The Anarchists Cookbook
Highly Explosive Pyrotechnic Compositions
Homemade C-4 : A Recipe for Survival
Improvised Explosives : How to Make Your Own

contributed by N4v1llus
A new variant of the CIH or Chernobyl virus known as Emperor has been discovered, this new strain along with CIH 1.4 are designed to release their payloads on the 26th of every month. This new strain is potentially more dangerous but due to bugs in its design may not spread very far.

MSNBC
ZD Net

contributed by 1D13h
Since 1998 worldwide piracy has dropped 40% which continues the downward trend started in 1994, according to the fourth annual Global Software Piracy Report published by the SIIA and the Business Software Alliance. However, in Vietnam, China, Indonesia, and Russia the overall piracy rate is at 90%. The report estimate that the lost revenue from piracy was $11 Billion for 1998.

Wired
Business Software Alliance
SIIA
1998 Global Software Piracy Report

contributed by 0nDaN
Thailand's Intellectual Property Court has sentenced the manager of a computer store to two years and four months in jail and fined him over eleven thousand dollars. This is the first time a jail sentence for piracy has been issued in Thailand. The store owner plans to appeal.

Nando Times

contributed by Anonymous
Cracked
These are the sites that have been reported to us as cracked.
http://do-nt.8j.net-2
http://data.digex.net
http://nation.com.pk
http://www.pak.gov.pk
http://www.the-dark-immortals.org