contributed by smith
The Concise Oxford Dictionary has added some new words to its vernacular. One notable inclusion is the word "Phreaking" with a definition of hacking into the telephone network. Other new words include firewall and portal among others.

ZD Net
The Concise Oxford Dictionary

contributed by Weld Pond
Are years in jail the correct answer for teenage script kiddies who deface web pages? Are dangerous precedents being created today that will limit personal freedom tomorrow? Are we running the risk of turning criminals into cultural icons? Peter Wayner takes a look at these complex questions.

Salon

contributed by zuc
Symantec has discovered a new malicious piece of software that travels as an email attachment named "zipped_files.exe". Similar to Melissa this worm/trojan uses the MAPI commands and Microsoft Outlook on Windows systems to replicate. This code was originally discovered in Israel.

Symantec

contributed by Dead.Under.Water
Stanford University was a victim of a spammer recently. A message, sent to some 25,000 Stanford email accounts, accused the school of giving housing preferences to minorities. Prosecutor Julius Finkelstein, head of Santa Clara County's high-tech crimes unit, said the "hacker" could be charged with such offenses as unauthorized use of a computer account and harassment via e-mail. Evidently sending hate filled emails grants you the hacker moniker?

Yahoo News

contributed by Macki
Pictures of the FREE KEVIN Demonstrations held last week in front of federal courthouses across the country have been posted. Pictures from the demonstrations in Cleveland, New York, and Moscow have been made available at the FREE KEVIN Demos website. Kevin Mitnick's sentencing hearing is scheduled for Monday, June 14th.

FREE KEVIN Demonstrations

contributed by evenprime
Eric Lundquist thinks that it is wrong to crack servers because doing so undermines consumers' confidence in e-commerce. (In my opinion consumers would be wise not to trust e-commerace.) Interesting how the author never gets around to blaming vendors who tell people to place their trust in the rubbish that is being sold.

ZD Net

contributed by Anonymous
Cracked The following sites have been reported as cracked.
http://www.joshcomm.com
http://www.usd.edu
http://www.ioc.state.il.us
http://www.alloweb.com
http://www.coollinux.com