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News for 120499
contributed by Weld Pond
Novell chief Eric Schmidt has admitted that he has been the victim of
credit card theft. Speaking at San Francisco's Digital Economy
conference he blamed the theft of his personal information on browser
cookies. He labeled cookies as "the biggest disaster for computers
in the past [few] years."
ZD
Net
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contributed by Deepquest
The most recent Technology Integration Panel Study, conducted by
International Data Corporation paints a grim picture of online security.
Consumers have worried about the security of their online transactions,
and this study seems to justify those fears. The study, entitled
E-Commerce Solutions: Customer Directions and Segmentation by Company
Size and Industry" explores various market segments currently using
e-commerce systems and what the potential is for the future.
(Unfortunately the data for this study is already six months old and
had an extremely small sample size. Hopefully a more comprehensive study
can be conducted soon.)
South
China Morning Post
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contributed by Evil Wench
With new security weakness showing up on a daily basis how do you model
threats against computer systems? Bruce Schneier has come up with a
formal methodology for analyzing the security of systems and subsystems,
known as 'Attack Trees'.
Dr.
Dobb's Journal
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contributed by Simple Nomad
Jitsu-Disk finished moving the Pandora Linux code so that Pandora Linux
uses libpcap and libnet. Pandora is a set of tools for testing the
security and insecurity of Novell Netware. A number of problems have
been corrected from the beta release on November 19th, including
several problems involving spoofing and sniffing. Libnet helped Jitsu
fix all that. The documentation has also been updated, including all the
code used to do the builds, and pre-compiled binaries, all wrapped up
in a
nice big tarball.
Nomad Mobile Research Center
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contributed by Ender
Numerous contradictory information about the raids and arrests of
YTCracker and Darkness of [sSh] have been received by HNN and other
sources. It is pretty clear at this time that YTCracker has not been
arrested, yet. (He feels that it is only a matter of time.) OSALL has
been trying to keep track on the rumors and innuendoes and get accurate
information regarding this breaking story or non-story.
OSALL
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contributed by Jordan
Thursdays long anticipated launch of Freedom 1.0 by Zero Knowledge
Systems has proved to be an extraordinary success. Freedom works
seamlessly alongside your favorite browser and other Internet
applications. You can surf the web, send email, chat,
telnet, and participate in newsgroups as you normally would, only now
with complete confidence that your personal information is not being
collected without your consent. Freedom identifies you on the net with a
'nym' that you choose. There can be only one 'nym' so you may want to
reserve your online identity as soon as you can.
Freedom
1.0
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contributed by dcypher
A team for the Hacker News Network has been created at DCypher.net.
DCypher.Net has accepted the CS Group's CS-Cipher challenge and will
attempt to break their 56 bit key using a brute force attack in a
distributed computing effort. They promise to give the entire $10,500
prize to whoever actually finds the correct key. (Now that is a
pretty strong incentive.)
DCypher.net
HNN
Stats at DCypher.net TeamID:131
Don't forget about our team over at SETI@Home, the search for
extraterrestrial life.
SETI@Home
HNN
SETI@Home Team Stats
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contributed by Desolationroad
At approximately 12 Noon PST on Friday December 3rd, 1999 a 42 square
foot (3.816 sq meters) extremely dense ball of complicated electronics
will arrive at the end of its twelve month journey. The 1,270 pounds (576
kg) mass of extremely sophisticated cutting edge technology will crash
land onto the surface of an extraterestrial location. (Now thats a
damn hack if I ever heard of one.)
Jet Propulsion
Laboratory
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