contributed by Javaman
Whiles holes in SNMP are nothing new it is surprising just how vulnerable some ISPs still are to the problem. Philtered.net says that now a malicious person could extract an ISP users login name and phone number directly from the terminal server thereby equating an IP address with a real person.

Internet News
Philtered.net

contributed by Weld Pond
Senator Patrick Leahy has introduced into the Senate the Internet Security Act of 2000. The bill will give more leeway to law enforcement to use pen registers and trap and trace devices, remove the 'loophole' that prevents officers from from monitoring an innocent-host computer without a wiretap order and contains provisions for equipment forfeiture. (This may be a little over reaction, seems like a lot of power granted law enforcement.)

S 2430 - via Cryptome

contributed by acopalyse
A denial-of-service attack on PSINet Hong Kong on Wednesday disabled the Internet service provider's Web-hosting servers for most of the day, leaving many of its dotcom customers without e-mail and Web sites. However, more than a day after the attack took place, the ISP was still unable to determine whether it was the result of an outside attacker or an internal blunder.

Technology Post

contributed by Odin
With $7500 in spare parts and plans found on the Internet a US Air Force team built what they say can successfully jam satellite signals. Unfortunately they didn't give the effective range of the jamming device or the URL to the plans.

New Scientist

contributed by m0nk
The GNIT vulnerability Scanner has been almost completely redesigned from the ground up to perform a scan for open ports. Many new functions have been added to this new release of GNIT, including the great new feature of a custom generated html output after a scan has been run. Only for windows NT or 2000.

ellicit.org

contributed by Bigfoot
Someone has set up a 'Free MafiaBoy' web site. Free MafiaBoy