contributed by Weld Pond
A report released by the General Accounting Office last Thursday mentions that information security weaknesses are continuing to place defense operations at risk.

GAO Report - PDF
Federal Computer Week

contributed by blosonne
The President's Export Council Subcommittee on Encryption (PECSENC) has issued a recommendation to the President that recommends the administration lift all export controls of encryption products.

USA Today
Newsbytes

contributed by Dr. Mudge
L0pht Heavy Industries, today announced the release of its ground breaking AntiSniff network security software. AntiSniff can detect attackers surreptitiously monitoring a computer network. They have also released a position paper that explains why this is such an important breakthrough.

AntiSniff
Yahoo News

contributed by Macki
The official Date and location of HOPE 2000 has been announced as July 14 - 16, 2000. This years HOPE will be held at the same location as the HOPE conference back in 1994. The HOtel PEnnsylvania.

HOPE 2000
HNN Cons Page

contributed by Netmask
Jahair Joel Navarro, a resident alien from Panama living in Brooklyn, was arrested by the FBI on Thursday and accused of threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction. This after he emailed IBM and Microsoft and threatened to blow them up unless he received a large sum of money.

USA Today

contributed by Weld Pond
The U.K. based company Fortune Cookie Digital Media recently had approximately 10 percent of the sites they hosted infected by a trojan/virus. Backdoor-G was used by the attacker to provided access to password files and upload virii to infected default documents like index.html. Fortune Cookie has started an investigation and has notified the local authorities.

CNN

contributed by Erik
Now along with HNN, SecureRoot, Astalavista, and Secure Search, HNN now includes the Mindsec.com search engine on the HNN Search Page. The MindSec search engine is also capable of searching files on the attrition.org web site.

HNN Search