contributed by Mortel
Looks like the EU is taking tips from George Orwell. The European Union is almost ready to approve legislation that would allow the police to listen in to all private conversations whether they be by phone, internet or satellite phone. All of this to supposedly fight terrorism and orginized crime.

Wired

contributed by Space Rogue
The government has responded to the Mitnick Defense teams motion in a document entitled "Government's Consolidated Opposition to Defendant Mitnick's Motion". This is in regards to the allegation that the government new that Ron Austin, an FBI Informant, wor ked for Mitnick's lawyer. (Ed. Note. Regardless of Mitnick's guilt or innocence, the fact that he has been in jail for over three and half years without a constitutionally guaranteed bail hearing is wrong.)

FREE KEVIN

found on BugTraq
John the Ripper version 1.6 has been released. John the Ripper is a password cracker, currently available for UNIX, DOS, WinNT/Win95. Its primary purpose is to detect weak UNIX passwords. Version 1.6 now supports Batch mode, Kerberos AFS passwords, and has many new features.

John the Ripper

contributed by Mortel
A new Information Operations policy was approved in October by the military services, that formally institutionalizes information warfare as a new operational battlespace. Cyberspace is now considered by the DOD as a battleground, along with land, air, and sea.

Federal Computer Week

contributed by numerous people
Monolith, the free DNS service offered by mil.org, has officially shut down.

www.ml.org

contributed by Simple Nomad
Spam, advertising pr0n, was relayed through the Computerworld Inc. mail servers in the Philipines.

Computer World

contributed by Space Rogue
Microsoft claims in a recent study that in Massachusetts alone software piracy has cost the state $850 million in lost wages and taxes, and more than 4,300 jobs.

Nando Times

contributed by Agent X
HNN is proud to welcome, WRFB 96.3FM the voice in your head, in greater Burlington VT as an HNN affiliate. This is HNNs first broadcast media affiliate. And a big thank you to all of our Affiliates.

HNN Affiliates

contributed by Space Rogue
Three million cars susceptible to Palm Pilot attack in Britian. Have a remote door unlocker or car starter? Does it use infrared? The Palm Pilot can learn that code which can then be used by people who don't own the vehicle. (This article blames 3COM the makers of the Palm Pilot. Instead they should be blaming the car manufacturers for building a crappy system.)(Yes, I know this is old news but this article was too funny to pass up.)

Eureka Alert

contributed by QaJuRRiA
The Rotterdam Art Institute's web site (http://abk.hro.nl/) was hacked by QaJuRRiA on Wednesday. The attacker was evidently able to gain root and alter the web page that was running on the IRIX 6.4 server. The Rotterdam Ar t Institute is a University/College for about 2000 students, in the center of Rotterdam, Holland.

contributed by Anonymous
Packardbell's domain (www.packardbell.com) was hacked again Wednesday the defaced web pages were restored after approximately an hour.

contributed by x-empt
Zyklon of Legions of the Underground claims to have cracked several hundred domains. Here is a very abbrevaited list:
www.computersassociates.com
www.feedthechildren.org
www.remax-oklahoma.com
www.bennettfinancial.com
www.okcphilharmonic.org