contributed by ryan
In a swiftly executed move Kevin Mitnick has been moved from the Metropolitan Detention Center - Los Angeles, to the San Bernardino County Jail. Unfortunately the SBC does not offer Kosher meals, since Kevin wishes to exercise his right to freedom of religion he has not eaten since his transfer late Wednesday afternoon. The defense lawyers will file a motion with the court for Kevin's immediate return to MDC-L.A. The SBC does allow visitors as long as 24 hours notice is given.

FREE KEVIN

contributed by CyberChrist
A simple email and a site disappears, maybe it was never there to begin with? ISPs with missing back bones, maybe they never had them? What is going on? Where have all the good security sites gone?

Buffer Overflow

contributed by Aleph One
Security Focus has posted a very interesting report in their guest forum section. The folks at SSR went and scanned 36 million IPs, that was about 85% of the internet at the time, for 18 common security vulnerabilities. They came up with some rather scary results. The article also introduces the idea of the International Digital Defense Network (IDDN), a possible public interest project which, if implemented, could dramatically influence the security of the Internet. This is a must read for anyone even remotely interesting in system security.

Security Focus

contributed by Dioxin
A 15-year old has pleaded guilty to defacing the web page of two Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS) web sites. The defacement occurred back in June. The infocrimminal will be sentenced soon for four counts of unauthorized entry and the disclosure of passwords. The individual made several guess at the login/password and eventually hit upon a combination that worked, "news/news". (And no sanctions against TCS for having weak/no security)

The Strait Times
HNN Archive for June 18

contributed by Lionel
The Russian Home Office has detected more than 100 IT related offenses since the beginning of the year. Russia has convicted its first computer related offender, an 18 year old student who stole $11,000 from a US company by selling its products over the Internet has been sentenced to 5 months in jail.

S Yahoo - French

contributed by skalore
The first annual ToorCon is set to take place in less then one month, on September 3rd-4th, at the Price Center in The University of California, San Diego. ToorCon is San Diego's only comprehensive computer security conference, and will feature lectures that range from topics such as; IDS, Stack-based buffer overflows, secure remote communications, and more. ToorCon will also feature staff members from Attrition.org and ToorCon will reporters from the San Diego Union Tribune. And of course, after the day's lectures, San Diego's friendly neighbor to the south, Mexico, is available 24 hours, for partying and fun.

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