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Russia convicts its first cracker
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contributed by nny
Using a software program that generates credit card numbers Pavel Cheiko, an 18-year-old computer student purchased $11,000 dollars in computer equipment over the internet . He later sold the equipment. He received a five year suspended sentence. This i
s the first conviction for the Russian Federal Security Services that was
set up to fight computer fraud.
Yahoo News
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SP4 didn't fix everything
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contributed by Anonymous
Two DoS bugs made it into SP4. spoolss.exe and LSASS are still vulnerable
to security breaches. According to this article users shouldn't worry
as
most users should be protected by their firewalls. That of course assumes
that all of a users boxes are inside
a firewall, the firewall itself isn't running on NT, and that the firewall box isn't compromised.
InfoWorld
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The Great Firewall of China
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contributed by Space Rogue
BroncBuster and Legion of Underground are still at it. Not content with
defacing the Chinese Human Rights web site they have attacked the firewalls that surround the country. China has erected firewalls at all internet points of entry into the country to
prevent its people from surfing to 'subversive' web sites. BroncBuster claims to have penetrated these firewalls and turned the filtering rules off.
Wired
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contributed by Ken Williams
Route, the editor of Phrack, gives a pretty decent interview to Radio Free Europe. Pretty simplistically written article. Basically written for someone who has no idea what a hacker is. Route had some good things to say though.
Radio Free Europe
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Found on Slashdot
A new proposal before the European Parliament would make the act of
recording television broadcasts for personal use illegal. These rules and
others are
part of the proposed EU copyright directive currently being deliberated.
BBC
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Electronic Civil Disobedience
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contributed by Stefan Wray
A paper written by Stefan Wray entitled "Electronic Civil Disobedience and the World Wide Web of Hacktivism: A Mapping of Extraparliamentarian Direct Action Net Politics " has recently been released for the Contemporary Cultural Theory Conference. The paper describes a
lot of the recent events in the hacktivism world and looks at a close look at the various aspects of online civil disobedience.
Electronic Civil Disobedience
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New Zealand police going after crackers
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contributed by Space Rogue
Christchurch New Zealand Police find it hard to arrest computer
criminals when there are no laws to arrest them under. Detective Micheal Chappell of the Fraud Squad described hackers as "socially inept people hell-bent on taking out their frustrations o
n others".
New Zealand Press Online
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China to crack down on Crackers
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contributed by Simple Nomad
As we reported yesterday China is starting to crack down on malicious computer users. With a 30% increase in computer crime every year officials have introduced what they call the "Network Anti-Hacker Total Solution"
Inside China Today
Desert news
Nando Times
USA Today
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Agent Steal still on the run.
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Are hackers today selling out? Space Rogue examines this question more
closely in this exclusive HNN special edition.
HNN Exclusive
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contributed by Weld Pond
Keen Veracity 5, a cool hacking ezine, has just been released by Legions of Underground. With articles on TCP Wrappers, Novell and Comdex.
Veracity 5
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