|
News for 112298.html
|
Planned Electronic Disobedience
|
|
|
CDAII goes down! for now.
|
|
|
contributed by Space Rogue
A temporary restraining order has been granted to the 17 plaintiff case against the Child Online Protection Act which was set to take effect today. The government has been prohibited from prosecuting anyone under the act until December 4,(or 8th dependin
g on which article you read) when a hearing for a preliminary injunction is scheduled.
Wired
Wired - Yes they had two stories
ZDNet
Nando Times
CMP Net
MSNBC
|
|
XS4ALL judges removes himself
|
|
|
contributed by demoniz
100% Pure Bikkel a HNN Affiliate is reporting that The judge in the XS4ALL trail has declared that he does not have jurisdiction in the case and has removed himself from the tria
l. XS4ALL is in court because it refused to obey a government wiretap order a year ago.
XS4ALL
|
|
contributed by Space Rogue
Low-bandwidth attacks, or attacks that take weeks or months to accomplish from several locations, are on the rise. Because of the time and multiple IPs involved current intrusion detection software find it hard to identify these types of attacks. Securit
y companies have taken notice and are developing new products to combat the threat.
PC Week
|
|
contributed by Space Rogue
Catch a virus from just reading email? Yup. A new class of viruses has recently been identified that activates when the content is viewed. It is no longer necessary to download and activate an attachment. These new URL or HTML viruses only effect IE us
ers with VBScript installed, for now.
ZD Net
|
|
contributed by Space Rogue
PCWeek reviews HackerShield 1.0 and gives it the PC Week Labs' Analyst's Choice designation.
PC Week
|
|
contributed by Space Rogue
The Electronic Frontier Foundations web server has crashed hard. They have been down for over a week. They estimate they will be back online this weekend.
Wired
|
|
contributed by Space Rogue
So you've got the latest and greatest security technology money can buy. Are you secure? Well, did you remember to delete that old employees account when they got fired? The weakest link in the chain is still the human element.
PC Week
|
|
contributed by Space Rogue
We reported on this yesterday but Fox has picked up the story on how Biometrics is set to be the next big thing.
Fox News
|
|
contributed by BHZ
And so the saga continues. Last weekend a group known as HcV allegedly broke into www.hack-net and deleted numerous files. Hack-Net has understandably been rather upset about the hole deal. They claim they have lost over $8,000 worth of work and are takin
g their case to the FBI. HcV has officially denied any wrong doing however one member did claim responsibility. That member was later labeled a fraud. Now as Hacked-Net prepares to meet with the FBI HcV has lost one of its premiere members.
HNN Archive of hacked page
HCV web site
Hack-Net
Help Net Security - various interviews and background information.
|
|
|
