contributed by Brian Martin
Why have there been so many web page defacements and so few arrests lately? What should you do if Law Enforcement comes knocking at your door looking to take all your computer equipment and other electronic equipment and media. Brian Martin takes a look at these questions and more in the latest Buffer Overflow article, "Is it worth it."

Buffer Overflow

contributed by no0ne
A combination of Melissa and PRI, a new virus dubbed "Prilissa", has the capability to reformat your hard drive. If activated before Christmas day the payload will wait until the 25th before it attempts to reformat your drive. It is another one of those viruses that spreads via e-mail and takes advantage of security holes in both Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express to replicate.

C|Net
MSNBC
Symantec

contributed by luyten
The Norwegian justice department, in cooperation with Norway's two biggest telecommunications companies (NetCom and Telenor), have invested 9.2 million dollars on a technical and economic solution to tap into and listen to any GSM phone.

Nettavisen - Norwegian

contributed by Evil Wench
When Time Warner detectives saw an advertisement for cable boxes in a Filipino newspaper they called the Sheriffs Department. After following a trail form a Post Office box in Nevada to to a business in Las Vegas they arrived at the home of Bau Nguyen in La Canada Flintridge, California. There investigators seized over 350 illegal cable descrambling boxes used for pirating cable TV. The boxes are estimated to be worth $2 million. (They also supposedly seized an 'e-prompt' burner. Bwaahahaha. Hmmm, 350 boxes for 2mil that is almost 6 Grand per box, yeah right.)

LA Times

contributed by WeldPond
Pandora is a set of tools for testing the security and insecurity of Novell Netware. Pandora v4 Beta 2, both offline and online versions, have been released by the Nomad Mobil Research Center.

Pandora Home Page

contributed by cult_hero
Attrition.org has done an overhaul on their defaced mirror archive. On top of significant updates to existing mirrors, they have created several new targeted mail lists to help notify people of defaced sites. 'defaced-gm' caters to individuals that wish to stay abreast of the latest Government and Military defacements. A second new list 'defaced-alpha' is designed for law enforcement and security admins that wish to be notified immediately, via alpha-numeric pager.

Attrition Mirror
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