contributed by Space Rogue
A study published by Criminal Justice Weekly has found that while online crime is on the rise fewer and fewer cases are brought to trail. The study was conducted by gathering information through the Freedom of Information Act. The study found that 419 computer crime cases where offered to federal prosecutors, up 43% from 1997, but only 83 cases actually had charges filed. This is a 5 to 1 referral to prosecution ratio, far lower than the average for federal cases of 1.6 to 1.

ZD Net

contributed by Weld Pond
An intelligence brief prepared by the RCMP says that the Canadian police lack the necessary skills and personnel to protect the nations infrastructure from infocriminals and cyber terrorists.

Ottawa Citizen

contributed by Meg A. Haquer
After dynamically linking to an external message board, AntiOnline found one of its new features, "Eye on the Underground", redirected to a site in Russia. Visitors where treated to a large image of an eye and the message "expensive security systems do not protect from stupidity." (Mirror provided by attrition.org) HNN cracked Pages Archive

Nando Times
AntiOnline

contributed by Weld Pond
A German court recently decided to hold a bank liable for losses in connection with a stolen Eurocheque card in part because the 56-bit encryption protecting the card was considered "out-of-date and not safe enough." Are you still relying on DES to keep your data secure?

Asian Technology Information Program - Paragraph 13

contributed by ph1b3r_m0nk
On Aug. 22nd the GPS (Global Positioning System) Rollover is scheduled to occur. This rollover happens every 1,024 weeks but this will be the first rollover since the system went online on Jan. 6th 1980. On Aug. 22nd the date counter will return to zero to begin the count for the next 1,024 weeks. GPS is utilized within many industries such as Satellite tracking, Defense Information, Navigation and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Some early GPS units did not take this date rollover into account and may be affected. (hhhmmmm, I suppose we ought to postpone that hiking trip.)

National Park Service
Wired
Navstar GPS Joint Program Office

contributed by Space Rogue
The New York State Police has turned to the web in an effort to track down the alleged vandals who destroyed the Woodstock '99 site. The Police posted 10 photographs of the mayhem that had been taken by the Associated Press and asked the public to help identify people in the photos. The AP requested the photos be removed as soon as they knew about it.

Nando Times
Civic.com
New York State Police Web Site