contributed by erewhon
Hmmm, tell us something we didn't know. In a congressionally mandated report by the National Research Council a three year study has concluded that the Pentagons C4I (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence) systems have serious weaknesses (Ed Note: It took three years to figure that out? Glad to see my tax dollars are spent wisely.) The report also makes note of a military culture prone to treating such problems as a lesser priority. The report recommends the formation of a technology training institute in an effort to recruit and maintain highly skilled staff.

USA Today
C|Net

Federal Computer Week mentions what a lot of other media outlets missed. This report also recommends that the the Defense Department should get expanded authority to mount a counter cyberattack if their systems come under fire.

Federal Computer Week

Hey, why not read the report for yourself and draw your own conclusions.

National Research Council

contributed by Arik
Apparently Computer Security, Script Kiddies, and Newbies have reached the mainstream. Doonesbury, a daily comic strip, is running a rather amusing story this week. Looks like the home computer has been sacked even though a new firewall has been installed.

Doonesbury- Unfortunately this is the only link I have. Does anyone have a better one? If you load the image locally and then manually change the date in the URL you can view yesterdays strip.

contributed by Code Kid
Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Gordon Moore, and Ted Waitt, among others, have all had their social security numbers exposed through an official Security and Exchange Commission online database called EDGAR. The database, which is no longer used according to C|Net, is still accessible from the web and is still spewing out CEO social security numbers.

C|Net

contributed by Weld Pond
A pretty good article on hacker tools and how network administrators may make better use of them and possibly defend against them has surfaced in Information Security Magazine. The article discusses Password Crackers, War Dialers, Session Hijacking, Network Mapping and remote back doors. Deffinatly a very good broad over view of the basics.

Information Security Magazine

contributed by _GryPhoNN_
Charged with 37 counts of 'unlawfully operating a computer' a man from Perth Australia has not yet entered a plea and has requested legal assistance. Christopher Thomas Daniels, 20, was allegedly in possession of 350 passwords of which he supposedly used 37 and might have caused a whopping $50(Aus) in fraud. All of the compromised accounts where from ViaNet in Western Australia.

Australia Technology News
Via Net

contributed by Anonymous
Cracked
Rather a slow news day today. Only one site was reported cracked:
http://www.cortroninc.com