contributed by McIntyre
The US Army has migrated its web server duties off WindowsNT and onto MacOS. The site administrator has said that according the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) MacOS is more secure and does not allow remote logins. (The reason army.mil was recently defaced was do to an application hole, not an OS problem and nothing against the W3C but when did they become security experts?)

Army Link News
CMP Tech Web
US Army

contributed by Modify
Phrack, the oldest continuously published underground e-zine , has released issue 55. This is the first issue in over eight months. It has all the usual goodies from Loopback and LineNoise to Phrack World News.

Phrack 55 - HTML version
Phrack.com

contributed by netmask
News on the various vulnerabilities with numerous shopping cart software was first announced over four months ago. MindSec security has found that most web sites are still vulnerable to these holes leaving personal information including credit card numbers at risk. Hopefully these problems will be corrected soon.

MindSec Security

contributed by Weld Pond
After prompting from industry watch dog groups Microsoft has agree to hire a third party auditing firm to review the recent HotMail incident. Microsoft has not released the name of the company and it is unlikely the resulting report will be made public.

Wired

contributed by Weld Pond
The National Security Council will soon create a software assessment office to evaluate different operating systems other than Windows NT including open source software. A major reason given for this switch was the susceptibility of Windows to viruses and other attacks. (The article says they are looking closely at Linux, I hope they don't forget OpenBSD.)

Federal Times