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contributed by mmullin3
Michael Vatis, who heads the interagency National Infrastructure
Protection Center, has said that they have found indications that
malicious code was being installed at the same time as Y2K fixes. The
finger was pointed at fixes done by programmers from India and Israel as
well as Ireland, Pakistan and the Philippines. Exactly what indications
where found is not made clear. It would seem that the severity of this
problem isn't really known and that a lot of people just seem to be
guessing.
MSNBC
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contributed by Code Kid
In testimony before a Congressional Committee yesterday federal and
industry experts said that while enhancements to twelve year old
Computer Security Act are needed laws alone are not going to fix
underlying security issues on the internet. Increasing the role of the
National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish security
guidelines for federal agencies would be one of the goals of the
Computer Security Enhancement Act of 1999.
Federal
Computer Week
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contributed by Weld Pond
A new mailing list devoted to NT Security that promises to be completely
full disclosure has been started. The new list, NT Security Advice, will
be moderated by Steve Manzuik and is open to to anyone interested in, or
working with Microsoft Windows NT and Security.
TO SUBSCRIBE: Send an email to maillist@ntsecadvice.com
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contributed by no0ne
MITRE Corporation has recently unveiled the first Public Dictionary of
Computer Vulnerabilities, "in order to boost cyber-defense". "Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures [CVE]" contains standardized names and
descriptions of more than 300 known security vulnerabilities and
exposures, enabling sharing of data among various vulnerability
databases and security tools easier.
Computer
World
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contributed by Lady Sharrow
An interesting article from the free section of Janes Intelligence
Monthly. This is a quite long article but it covers the use of Hi-Tech
weapons by terrorist organizations. Most of the article is concerned
with 'conventional weapons' i.e. chemical, biological, nuclear etc but
the basic assumptions are also applied to cyber warfare. This is talking
about 'serious' use of these weapons rather than the average web page
defacement.
Janes Intelligence
Monthly
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contributed by Weld Pond
The Calgary Herald has published a profile of Theo de Raadt and arguably
the most secure out of the box operating system there is, OpenBSD.
Calgary
Herald
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