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News for
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contributed by Fedb0y
The Technology Subcommittee of the House Committee on Science heard
expert testimony on Thursday claiming that computer security training is
desperately needed. The experts stressed that most federal employees do
not take computer security seriously and that this is one reason for the
numerous successful attacks on federal systems. Another reason that was
given was the low salaries for properly trained security personnel. When
good people are found or developed in house they are usually lured away
by the private sector.
San Jose
Mercury News
ABC
News
USA
Today
APB
Online
MSNBC
US House Committee on
Science
Congress May Ask for Regular Security Reports
At the above hearing Rep. Connie Morella (R-Md.) mentioned that federal
agencies should report the status of their computer security to Congress
on a regular basis. She plans to include the requirement in her
revisement of the Computer Security Act of 1987. All three witnesses at
the hearing agreed this was a good idea.
Federal
Computer Week
Additional Government Sites Defaced
While hearings where being held additional government sites where being
defaced. This time it was Monmouth Army Base and the Argonne
National Labs library. (mirrors provided by attrition)
HNN Defaced Pages Archive
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contributed by Warez Dude
The University of Teesside will soon offer a four year degree in warez.
Courses will obviously include programming but also the history of warez,
good game design and other topics to prepare graduates for entry into the
booming computer game industry.
BBC
Teesside University
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contributed by angus
Yesterday HNN mentioned that HNC Network would be providing a webcast of
DefCon for $29.95. These sites will also be broadcasting live audio and
video streams of selected speakers, interviews and video live from the
show floor. These feeds are FREE to the public.
Pirate Radio UK
Hacksec
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contributed by pbradely
Hayes, the old modem manufacturer, may not live any longer but its
legacy lives on. Hayes originally had the patent on the escape sequence
"+ + + ATH" (without the spaces) It would appear that many modems
manufacturers are still not paying the royalties for TIES (Time
Independent Escape Sequence). As discovered years ago this escape
sequence will force many modems to go offline or into command mode
forcing a reboot. An excellent DoS attack. MacInTouch has an interesting
new report on this OS independent problem. If you find that you are
susceptible to this ancient flaw you can try changing the value of the S2
register to something greater than 127. (Consult your modem manual on how
to do this.)
Macintouch
Report
BugTraq Archive
Sept 1998
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contributed by Space Rogue
If you where victimized by Thursdays outage at UUNet be sure to check out
Thursdays news. HNN is proud to announce
that Defcon is finally an HNN Affiliate. HNN has added a Privacy Statement to appease our
advertisers. The folks at the SETI@Home project have
overcome their initial 'lack of data' problem, if you are interested the
HNN
Team could use some assistance.
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contributed by Anonymous
Cracked
The following sites have been reported as Cracked:
http://www.cpr-training.com
http://www.magnaflow.com
http://www.library.anl.gov
http://www.industrialbikes.com
http://www.monmouth.army.mil
http://www.sterzing.com
http://www.unicef.org.ar
http://cis.georgefox.edu
http://arcvirtualcampus.org
http://www.musclecars.org
http://www.habaco.com
http://www.iphase.com
http://www.arkon.net
http://www.art-by-kaki.com
http://www.dcclan.com
http://www.heckerdesign.com
http://www.nlac.gov.tw
http://www.pixeled.com
http://www.twilightsoftware.com
http://www.cpac.org
http://www.forpc.com.au
http://www.orgplanning.com
http://www.nethelpnow.com
http://www.appliedcls.com
http://www.craigcph.com
http://www.damascusbakery.com
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