contributed by solvant
On July 5th, 1999 the Associated Press and Sidney Morning Herald Internet edition ran a month old already debunked article describing how the CIA will be electronically breaking into various banks around the world to retrieve Solobadon Milsovics hidden money. This claim was originally made by Newsweek magazine on May 24th and was later picked up and ran by the Reuters News Service. HNN immediately questioned these claims. MSNBC also raised questions about the original article. By June 7th, William Arkin of the Washington Post had gathered enough evidence to completely debunk this story. Now, over a month after the original false report the Associated Press and Sydney Morning Herald blindly rerun the story without bothering to verify its accuracy. Did they just want to create sensationalism? Did they think people would not notice? Lets say this one last time: The CIA does not employ 'hackers' to break into foreign banks!

NewsWeek- May 24
HNN Archive for May 25, 1999
MSNBC- May 28
Washington Post - June 7
Sidney Morning Herald - July 5
Associated Press via ABC - July 5

contributed by Ken Williams
Harvard University has graciously shipped a 17.2GB hard drive that should contain the complete Packet Storm Security Archives to Ken Williams. Ken has told HNN that he is currently investigating the numerous offers he has received to host the site and hopes to have it back online soon. He has said that the legal issues surrounding this mess still need to be resolved.
For more information on this story see the HNN archives.

HNN Archive for July 1, 1999

contributed by Santeri Saarimaa
The main web page for the SETI@Home project was defaced over the weekend. The main page was replaced with a picture of Alf and the word 'Wanted'.

HNN Defaced Pages Archive
ZD Net

In case you missed it the SETI@Home project is still going strong and has released version 1.05 of their software.
SETI@Home

The HNN SETI Team is going strong but we could use your help. (I don't care what people say about this project the screen saver still rocks.)
HNN SETI Team

contributed by evenprime
Network Solutions, Inc, which administers domain name registrations had its DNS entries spoofed last Friday. Visitors to the web sites for Network Solutions where redirected to competitors. This is the second time NSI has succumbed to such an attack.

Wired
C | Net
Internet News

contributed by Space Rogue
Internet Security Systems (ISS) X-Force has discovered a security hole in numerous WebTrends products. This hole allows access to service account and MAPI user names and passwords. WebTrends stores service account user name and password in a file called WebTrends.INI that allows "Everyone" full access. WebTrends recommends that you modify the ACL settings to an appropriate level and upgrade to the latest version.

ISS X-Force

contributed by Space Rogue
In a few hours the HNN Staff will be boarding an airplane and heading for Las Vegas. We will definitely not be able to update the site as frequently as normal but we will do our best to keep you informed. In the meantime you can check out these related sites for more information on what will be happening at the convention.

The Black Hat Briefings
Defcon VII
Main Back Orifice 2000 Site
Zero Knowledge Systems- Releasing Freedom Beta2
L0pht Heavy Industries - Announcing AntiSniff
CounterPane Systems - Releasing white paper on MS PPTP2

contributed by Space Rogue
HNN T-shirts have just arrived from the printer and are now available to you! Unfortunately we will not have them at Defcon so if you want one be sure to order yours today! Check them out in the HNN Store Merchandise section. Check out the rest of the HNN store as we have added some other new products as well.

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