contributed by Space Rogue
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced the creation of The National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program, an accreditation program for laboratories that test commercial information technology security products for compliance with federal and international standards. The NVLAP will evaluate laboratories for their accordance with the National Information Assurance Partnership's Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme.

Federal Computer Week

contributed by Ldm-Beaudet
The Spanish Civil Guard (Police) have announced than a 22 year old Spanish man has been arrested for breaking into the Home Office's network in order to steal data. The man, whose identity remains anonymous, broke through the computer's security and tried, without success to gain access to confidential information to one of his free e-mail addresses. The man has been arrested in the Murcie's area (South-east of Spain) as a result of operation 'Yankee' that lasted more than a year. The Civil Guard collaborated with the Los Angeles Justice Department in order to identify the owner of the e-mail address.

Yahoo News - French

contributed by netmask
The rash of ISPs crumbling as soon as they get a letter threatening to sue is becoming a major issue. It does not matter if the threat is real or the allegations well founded most ISPs refuse to take a stand and buckle at the first hint of legal wranglings. 303.org and netcrimminals.org has succumbed to such an attack. They are desperately looking for someone to host either site. They need an ISP who supports free speech, and wants to do good for the community to host them. 303.org provides useful, but sometimes controversial services and information for free, as well as a few text mirrors. Netcriminals.org is working to inform the public about alleged criminals such as JP from Antionline, CPM from Happy Hacker, and Spy King from Codex Data Systems. The site has great things coming for it, if it can find an ISP with a small pair of balls to host it.

Send mail to Netmask if you are interested in helping host either site or need more info.

contributed by Space Rogue
Designed to silently trace and track bad guys, CyberCop Sting records and reports all intrusive activity. CyberCop Sting operates by creating a series of fictitious corporate systems. The Sting product creates a decoy, virtual TCP/IP network on a single server or workstation and can simulate a network containing several different types of network devices. Each virtual network device has a real IP address and can receive and send genuine-looking packets. Each virtual network node can also run simulated daemons, such as finger and FTP. Sting can also perform IP fragmentation reassembly and TCP stream reassembly on the packets destined to these hosts. (Hmmmm, how long before the underground figures out how to detect and avoid such a system?)

Yahoo PR News Wire

contributed by Anonymous
Cracked
The Following sites have been reported as being compromised.
http://www.abissa.ch
http://www.iptv.org
http://www.wtvl.net
http://www.am1370.com
http://www.anothercomforter.com
http://www.zaffron.com
http://maps.arc.nasa.gov
http://www.wines-market.com