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

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

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.

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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

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

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

contributed by Space Rogue
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