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contributed by Weld Pond
A week after notifying Microsoft of a major hole in its Internet
Information Server 4.0 eEye Digital Security Team went public with the
information and published an exploit for the hole. The Microsoft spin
machine labeled this action as 'Irresponsible'. The finger here should
not be pointed at eEye who did the honorable thing by alerting the
public and posting a real fix before Microsoft, but should instead be
pointed at Microsoft for creating bad software, and even worse,
concealing the information for up to a week. Unfortunately these
articles don't seem understand that.
LA
Times
Nando
Times
The UK
Register
Associated
Press - Via San Jose Mecury News
InfoWorld
eEye Digital Security Team
Microsoft
Late Update
Well, at least Forbes gets it.
Forbes
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contributed by Weld Pond
Scott Peterson has some interesting commentary about the recent
crackdown of the FBI on web graffiti artists. The government has
compared recent cracks to the use of terrorist weapons such as chemical
and biological weapons. Mr. Peterson says it is nothing of the sort and
that the recent crackdown fosters images of McCarthyism. Definitely some
interesting viewpoints here and worth the time to read.
PC
Week
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contributed by Silicosis
Ron Broersma, from the Space and Naval Systems Warfare Center, has
claimed that Russians where able to redirect print jobs destined for a
local printer back to Russia. While such a hack is possible in theory
the difficulties of doing so would make it seem unlikely. DNS cache
corruption seems like the most likely scenario. It is too bad that Mr.
Broersma did not respond to the authors of this article with
confirmation.
CMP
Net
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contributed by Code Kid
Art Money, senior civilian IT official for the Defense Department, while
speaking at at the GovTechNet International Conference in Washington,
D.C, said "The quality of software we're getting from vendors today is
crap, vendors are not building quality in."
Federal Computer Week
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contributed by Space Rogue
Even after one of the worst cases of spying in US history a special
investigative report has found that the Department of Energy is not
taking computer security seriously. The report labels computer security
practices at DOE as "naive at best and dangerously irresponsible at
worst."
Federal
Computer Week
Science at its Best, Security at
its Worst - DOE Security Report
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contributed by Anonymous
Since everyone else does it terrorists do to. Terrorists are using the
net as a means of communication, collaboration, and information
dissemination. Sharing technology and spreading information to followers
via the internet has become a necessary way of doing business. Web sites
are new weapons terrorists are adding to their armory. A good quote from
this article, "We cannot just make a law that will stop them from using
it."
Computer
Currents
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contributed by lamer
There is an encoded sculpture in the Langley courtyard, and now there is
a public challenge to see if someone in the general public can crack the
code before the CIA (of course, they have had a 10 year head start).
ABC
News
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contributed by Silicosis
'Pirates of Silicon Valley' airs on TNT this Sunday at 8pm. The show is
supposed to detail the history of Apple & Microsoft. While this info is
going to be plastered everywhere else, it may be worth watching (if you
have nothing better to do, after all, they are old school hackers.
TNT
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contributed by carole
Here is a rather funny carton, found in a rather interestingly funny
place.
www.nswc.navy.mil (www.nswc.navy.mil/ISSEC/Gif/cartoons/hacked.gif)
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contributed by Anonymous
Cracked
http://www.flavoredthunder.com
http://nc-101.hypermart.net
http://www.hansatreuhand.de
http://www.aj.com
http://www.wabba.com
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