contributed by Space Rogue
On Wednesday Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta claimed that hundreds of people around the world were poised to launch a cyber attack against Indonesia should there be any tampering in the election process for East Timor's freedom.

Yesterday HNN cast grave doubts on this claim having seen absolutely no evidence to support it.

Connect Ireland, the ISP that hosts the virtual top level domain of .tp for East Timor has released a press release also saying that they have not seen nor heard of any preparations for any electronic retaliation. C-I also urges all people to leave the internet for communication and not to attack other peoples freedom of speech via the internet.

San Jose Mercury News - Story on Jose Ramos-Horta's statements
HNN Archive for August 19, 1999
Press Release from Connect Ireland

contributed by AlienPlague
A proposed 'Cyberspace Electronic Security Act,' would give the DoJ additional powers to break into personal computers. The DoJ memo dated August 4, would allow the government to disable encryption on the machines and to gather passwords.

Washington Post
CNN
Yahoo News

contributed by deepquest
In what appears to be a simple internic spoof the registration information for godhatesfags.com was changed to the owner of godlovesfags.com. It is unknown if the first domain became unregistered or if the perpetrator somehow fooled Network Solutions into changing the information. Unfortunately it does not appear that anyone who has written a 'news' article about this has any idea how the internet works, making it hard to determine exactly what happened.

CNN

Late Update
A better story with a few more details.
Wired

contributed by Weld Pond
The House Government Reform and Oversight Committee will hold hearings on such surveillance programs as the National Security Agency's "Project Echelon," the NSA's global eavesdropping network. Earlier this year committee Chairman Dan Burton (R-IN) amended the FY 2000 Foreign Intelligence Authorization Act to require the DoJ, the NSA, and the CIA to submit to Congress a report detailing the legal standards the agencies use when they eavesdrop on American citizens.

US House of Representatives

contributed by Webmaster
The Shadow Knights Security Corp. has released an advisory that details a new scam that they have discovered that attempt to steal AOL users passwords. Basically an email is sent to the user which directs them to a fake AOL NetMail page where they are prompted to enter their username and password to read unread mail.

The Shadow Knights Security Corp.

contributed by Bronc Buster
The Synthesis has finnally posted a review of Defcon VII, that was in their last print issue, onto their web site. The review is authored by someone you might know, Bronc Buster.

The Synthesis (www.thesynthesis.com/tech/defcon/vii.html)

contributed by techs
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