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News for 123099
contributed by Space Rogue
As reported yesterday by HNN the DVD industry has filed suit in Santa
Clara Superior court against numerous people (many to be named later) for
posting or even linking to DeCSS. DeCSS is software that can unlock the
encryption scheme for DVD disks which can then be used to view your
movies on your computer it could also be used to illegally copy DVDs.
Wired
ZD
Net
Washington
Post
HNN's copy of the legal
complaint
DeCSS Defense Site
DVD Copy Control
Association
The legal angle of the DVD Industry's case will hinge on exactly how the
DeCSS software was created and whether it was truly reverse engineered
and if there was intent to cause harm to the industry.
Wired
The hearing has been scheduled for December 29, 1999, at the Superior
Court of the State of California, County of Santa Clara to determine if a
temporary restraining order should be granted against the named
defendants.
PZ
Communications
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contributed by Evil Wench
The National Infrastructure Protection Center has said that they have no
evidence pointing to a wide scale cyber attack and so far no serious
virus threats have been discovered. NIPC has said that it does not expect
large-scale U.S. infrastructure disruptions.
NY
Times - Registration required. Just give 'em a fake address.
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contributed by Code Kid
The Pentagon and the federal personnel agency will be taking the Air
Forces lead and will be shutting down some of their public web sites over
the new year thereby denying US citizens of their right to access public
information. Fearing a massive 'hacker attack' the agencies have decided
it is better to shut down the sites than repair any possible damage
later. (If your web site is vulnerable today it will be vulnerable
tomorrow. This tells me that you are not confident enough in your own
web sites ability to fend off attack but you expect the American public
to remain calm during the Y2K rollover.)
Associated
Press
Reuters
- via Yahoo
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contributed by evenprime
As the latest Chaos Computer Club Congress goes into full swing during
its second day Wired reporter Steve Kettmann issues his report. (I'm
gonna hafta get over there one of these years.)
Wired
Chaos Computer Club
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contributed by Space Rogue
A hole in the TCP/IP protocol stack on MacOS 9 could leave users systems
open to launching a distributed attack without the users knowledge.
MacOS 9's networking software, Open Transport, will automatically respond
to certain data packets by triggering numerous machines an attacker could
overwhelm a target site creating a denial of service attack. Apple
released a patch within hours of notification. (And during the
holidays as well, yeah Apple.)
ZD
Net
C|Net
Open
Transport Tuner 1.0
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contributed by grant
A white paper from 2600 Australia has been released that covers the need
for and reasoning behind physical security of both the console and
storage devices of a particular computer and some distilled advice from
the misc@openbsd.org mailing list on ways in which the OpenBSD console
might be secured from unpassworded physical access.
2600 Australia
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contributed by Space Rogue
While we disagree with all the doomsday predications regarding the new
year it is a perfect excuse to take a vacata^H^H^H^H.....to prepare the
bunker for the comming appocolypse. ;-) So as we vacation in the
Caribea^H^H^H^H.... head to the underground fallout shelter in the north
country you will probably not see any updates to HNN. Assuming
civilization and this web server survive into the new millenium your
regularly scheduled news will return on Monday Januray 3rd.
In the meantime if you missed it be sure to check out our picks for the
top news stories of 1999.
HNN's 1999 Year In
Review
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