contributed by evenprime
Slashdot is hosting an email interview with the Cult of the Dead Cow. They will be gathering questions until this afternoon and then posting the responses on Friday.

The Cult of the Dead Cow
Slashdot

contributed by Kiad Arch'August
Amazon has posted an interesting challenge for home cryptography buffs. Break their code and win books, Lego Mindstorms, and bragging rights.

Amazon.com

contributed by Q Bahl
Computer Economics, an independent research firm, has released a report blaming underground websites for the proliferation of computer crime. The damage caused by underground websites, they say, is estimated at over 1 Trillion dollars a year world wide.

Yahoo News
Computer Economics

contributed by William Knowles
The People's Liberation Army of China is said to be preparing to fight a 'dirty war'. This includes terrorism, biochemical warfare, environmental damage and computer viruses in an effort to create political and economic crisis.

South China Morning Post

contributed by no0ne
At the recent National Information Systems Security Conference speakers called for a publicly accessible database of uncovered modes of attack. The conference sponsored by the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency was attended by military and intelligence people and industry executives from all over the world in an effort to bond together against what they call "united attackers". (A public database is sure better than what numerous other agencies are proposing.)

San Jose Mercury News

contributed by Code Kid
With NIPC, CIAO, NIST, and even the Office of Management and Budget all legally tasked to define security standards for various government agencies the Government Accounting Office feels it is time for Congress to step in and pass some laws. The GAO is recommending that laws be passed to help direct these various security efforts to eliminate duplication and overlapping.

Federal Computer Week

contributed by toka25
HNN first mentioned this virus last week but now more information is available. RingZero was designed to search the internet for proxy servers. RingZero has been labeled a "quantum leap in distributed attack technology" by researchers.

CMP TechWeb

contributed by Space Rogue
ToorCon has announced their speaker list including Brian Martin, Rick Forno, Ron Moritz, Mike Hudack, eEye and others. Issue 38 of HWA Hax0r News has been released. B4B0 has released Issue 09 of its ezine.

contributed by netmask
In addition to the numerous ways you can receive HNN every day you can now get your HNN via Avant Go. This free service allows you to download HNN directly to your Palm Pilot, Windows CE device, or other PDA.

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