contributed by Anonymous
An anonymous writer has submitted an excellent article on the business tactics of the big auditing and security consulting firms. Before you allow people to crawl around in your HR and payroll systems you better read this.

The Dark Side of White Hat Hacking: Being "Owned" By White Hat Hackers

contributed by Space Rogue
Think the previous article about white hat hackers was total crap? Well read what Jeff Moss has to say about Secure Computing Corp. Jeff Moss is a white hat hacker who works out of Seattle and according this news report seems to back up everything said in our "Being 'Owned' By White Hat Hackers" article.

San Jose Business Journal

contributed by Kroma
IBM is releasing to the open source community a product to replace the popular sendmail. Secure Mailer is supposed to have improved security and reliability. (Ed Note: Since this is a brand new product how can they say it has better security? Who has tested it outside of IBM? Until this product has received some sort of peer review I would really hesitate in calling it secure.)

IBM's Secure Mailer Web Site
Nando Times
CNN
Detriot News
CMP Net
IDG News
Builder Online

contributed by Space Rogue
Another article that details a recent War Room report that claims that 30 percent of 320 Fortune 500 companies have installed software capable of launching counterattacks to security breaches. (Ed Note: First I have to question the legality of counterattacking, How do you know who is attacking you? Second if anyone knows what software these companies have installed please let me know as I have never heard of it.)

CMP Net

contributed by Kroma
French web surfers call their internet strike against France Telecom a success. According to the initiators the boycott rate ranged from 50% to 90% among surfers using the main ISPs. Monopoly local phone service provider France Telecom has yet to comment.

Nando Times

contributed by Space Rogue
Netect Inc. has distributed the first in a series of RapidFire Updates to its HackerShield(TM) customers. This RapidFire Update contains numerous new security checks that help protect servers against serious security threats including IMAP exploits and NT promotion attacks.

Excite News

contributed by Maverick
SAB Products, Inc. Had it website defaced earlier today. The main page was replaced with one asking people to visit the FREE KEVIN web site. SAB Products is a distributor of Imprinted advertising Products and Business Gifts.

SAB Products Inc.