contributed by Dr. Mudge
Yesterday was one of two stand down day at the national weapons labs (Los Alamos, Sandia, LLNL, etc), ordered by Energy Secretary Bill Richardson. This means that due to the pressure and publicity from the Cox/PFIAB reports no normal work was allowed at the labs. Only emergency and operational tasks were to be continued - 16 hours of training courses, web tests, discussion groups, etc. over a two day period take everything elses place. The training dealt with review of existing security efforts, everything from operational to computer security is being discussed, dissected, and hopefully digested. While this may be an excellent way to educate employees one can only hope that network security monitoring and analysis is considered essential daily activity.

Albuquerque Journal

contributed by solvant
Need a job? Live in Australia? X-Force, part of ISS, is recruiting Australian security experts for their three month old Australian office. We sure hope they do thorough background checks, wouldn't want them hiring any evil hackers by mistake. A quote from the article by Cris Rouland of ISS "I don't go out and recruit hackers per se; I look for very strong software engineers with a deep understanding of security and strong knowledge of the computer underground." If that isn't a hacker I don't know what is.

Fairfax IT

contributed by RenderMan
Need a RedBox in Canada? Got a Diamond Rio for your MP3s? One more reason for the authorities to hate MP3s and the device. HackCanada has released a text file on how to use your Diamond RIO as a RedBox.

HackCanada

contributed by MacUser
SecureMac.com has opened their doors this week to a new site devoted to Macintosh Security. Learn more about the security that exists for the mac, and how to make your system more secure. Learn just how weak or strong the security is on certain products as well. This site covers encryption, security, virus, and much more. This site is run by the same person who runs Freaks Macintosh Archives a site devoted to macintosh hacking and security.

SecureMac.com

contributed by Sangfroid
Following in IBMs footsteps Microsoft will now demand a privacy statement be present on all web sites that it buys advertising from. Why have the two largest internet advertisers taken this stance? The FTC is about to make its recommendations to congress about whether tough new federal privacy laws should be enacted. Of course this means that HNN will have to post something about how you have no privacy and that we log everything, but then so does every other web site. It should be a fun page to write. Look for it in the next few days.

Nando Times

contributed by Kanuchsa
The Pentium III bug list has been posted by Intel in PDF format, lists 46 bugs or "erratums" as Intel likes to call them, not much ahead for fixes for them hardware wise mainly because Intel is calling them minor. One of them is a FPU error which appears to have no plans to be fixed in the future.

The UK Register
PDF Doc listing 'erratums' not bugs

contributed by Anonymous
Kasparov CheckMated?
A source close to the BBC has told us that they think the World vs. Kasparov Chess match had been compromised yesterday by cyber intruders. Evidently the "World" playing against Kasparov had numerous Kings on the board at once. HNN has received no confiormation of this report. If anyone knows what really went on we would like to hear it.

Cracked
The following sites have been reported to us as compromised.
http://hpws3.ihep.ac.cn
http://www.atljf.org
http://www.121trade.com
http://www.bizzcity.com
http://www.internetgate.com
http://www.nflgameday.com
http://www.orgplanning.com
http://www.thanks-cgi.com
http://observer.gsfc.nasa.gov
http://www.ipub.com