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Testifying before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Government and Defense Information Systems Director Jack Brock, said that the NIPC plan of a Federal Intrusion Detection Network is flawed. He went on to say that good security is a direct result of good information management and that band aid solutions such as FidNet will fail unless management is fixed.

The Register UK

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The latest phase of making the UK the most tightly regulated country in the world takes place today. If enacted the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill would give far reaching powers to the government and its agencies to snoop on private individuals. All UK readers are urged to lobby their MP's to retract this bill and implement the original freedom of information bill the government promised.

The Register UK
Wired
The Stand - Campaigning For Safe E-Commerce Legislation

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Claiming he has been on vacation for the past week or so Curador has returned and now boasts more than 23,000 credit card numbers that have been lifted from at least eight different e-commerce sites. At several of the sites Curador has used a security hole in Microsoft's Internet Information Server software which allows the download of customer transaction records. Microsoft created a patch for the hole in 1998.

USA Today

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The head of Taiwan's National Security Bureau information division, Chang Kuang-yuan, said that while there was no evidence of a planned attack, the island's computers should be well protected for such an eventuality. It is feared that China may attempt to disrupt Taiwan's March 18 presidential election with various cyber attacks.

Virtual China
Reuters - via Yahoo

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The Police Training School in Hong Kong has started teaching police officers how to fight computer crime. The Commercial Crime Bureau will increase staff of the computer crime section from 17 officers to at least 20 and each of the 45 police divisions will have at least one computer crime trained officer assigned.

South China Morning Post

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The Yankee group has said that ATM and Frame Relay Networks are extremely vulnerable to security breaches. ASPs, network carriers and other corporations will spend $60 and $500 million between now and 2004 to add encryption to their networks.

TechWeb