contributed by Anonymous
Iron Lungs and dk were raided by FBI officials early Tuesday morning. The FBI confiscated all of the suspects computer systems (possibly including their web server -www.legion2000.org). The two people were in several organizations such as HcV, Forpaxe, l2x, and #feed-the-goats. They were taken into custody and later released for allegedly breaking into 45 military servers, 17 nasa.gov servers and various gov.uk, gov.se, gov.au servers. HNN has received email that this was reported in the Bristol Herald Courier and possibly even the Myrtle Beach Times. We have not yet been provided with a URL to verify this story.

HNN has spoken with Iron Lungs via IRC who has verified this story. It is still uncomfirmed as to 'dk' involvement.

contributed by Sail3
Nicholas Middleton, convicted of breaking into the San Francisco ISP Slip.net and of causing more than $40,000 in damage, will be sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge William Orrick Jr. on Aug. 4. Middleton is likely to receive six months to three years in jail.

ZD Net

contributed by l3inad
In an effort to increase security on the DODs Secret Internet Protocol Routing Network, (SIPRNET) information access will be restricted. While SIPRNET allegedly has no direct connection to the internet DOD would like to further protect its classified information network from internal security threats. It hopes that by compartmentalizing access to information and only allowing access to information required to preform a job function that the network can be made more secure. (It is interesting that information like this gets out to the general public. It is surprising that DOD publicly explains its defense posture for its most secure systems.)

Federal Computer Week

contributed by l3inad
This fall the US Army will offer a graduate-level course on information systems survivability. The course will teach engineers to develop systems capable of surviving any kind of technical glitch or network attack. The 14-week course will be beemed via satellite to 16 different locations and will be offered through the University of Maryland as an online, distance-learning initiative sponsored by the Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Md.

Federal Computer Week

contributed by Arik
TAKEDOWN, a movie produced by Millennium Films and Dimension Films and which will be released by Miramax is already getting reviews published. The film is claiming to be based on the true story of Kevin Mitnick. This 'review' is nothing more than an explanation of the plot with no commentary on whether the movie is good or bad. There is a discussion board about this review though.

Aint-It-Cool-News

contributed by DarMok
Looks like the good people over at www.iss.net wanted to make sure everyone who has downloaded a copy of Internet Scanner 5.x in the past got the word that version 5.8 is out. Their mail server has hiccupped Wednesday night sending out repeated announcements that their latest evaluation copy is available for download. Duplicate announcements arrive about every 9 minutes.

ISS Download Page

contributed by W3rDnA
Are consumers really worried about loosing their credit card numbers online? They shouldn't be, considering that your only liable for $50 worth of fraudulent charges. What consumers should be worried about is invasions of privacy while shopping online.

Fox News
The Detroit News
The Builder Online

contributed by Code Kid
A little late but the Internet Security Advisors Group has found in a recent security probe that free e-mail services such as Microsoft's Hotmail, YahooMail and Excite Mail failed to provide a basic security. President of ISAG, Ira Winkler, says that this lack of features makes it possible for "Hackers" to read your email.

NEW SCIENTIST

contributed by Anonymous
Cracked
Many of these government sites where reported as cracked by the group known as Foxpare.
http://comms2.rdc.uscg.mil
http://c4iweb.nosc.mil/
http://bigblue.od.nih.gov
http://www.freedom.edu
http://www.mrihsv.com
http://www.queen.it
http://eo1.gsfc.nasa.gov
http://comms2.rdc.uscg.mil