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contributed by Marc
eEye Digital Security Team has found a major remotely exploitable hole
in Microsoft's Internet Information Server. The buffer overflow of
ISM.dll leaves approximately 90% of 1.3 million Microsoft web servers
vulnerable to internet attack. The folks at eEye have graciously
developed an exploit script to demonstrate this hole. Microsoft has
provided a work around and is working on a patch.
eEye
Digital Security Team
Wired
Microsoft
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contributed by deepquest
Maccentral.com is reporting on a bug in Outlook Express 4.5. Basically
what it comes down to is if your machine has more than one email
account, and you know the password for one account then you can gain
access to all the accounts. Pretty damaging hole for multi users
machines.
MacCentral
Online
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contributed by Warez Dude
Texan Convicted of Pirating $63mil, in Germany.
A German State court has sentenced a Texas man to four years in prison
for three counts of counterfeiting Microsoft programs. Microsoft said
that this case was the "biggest in terms of the operation's
sophistication and the magnitude of damage."
Nando
Times
Wired
ZD
Net
Father and Son, Busted.
Father and son where convicted in Massachusetts of conspiring to sell
$20 million in stolen Microsoft Software. The father was fined over $1
Million and sentenced to almost six years in jail, the son was fined
$100,000 and got ten months in jail.
Nando
Times
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contributed by roach
Australia Concerned Over Y2K and Security
Fear that the Y2K bug will cause weaknesses in computer security are
being raised. Some companies are spending money on Y2K issues and are
ignoring important security issues. The fear is that cyber attacks may
be misinterpreted as run of the mill Y2K problems.
Australia
News
Australian
Financial Review
DOD Plans for Possible Y2K Attack
The US DOD has started evaluating possible scenarios for cyber attacks
that may be masquerading as Y2K computer glitches. While not saying how
possible such an attack may be DOD said it is just being prepared for
any contingency.
Federal
Computer Week
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contributed by LirA
Buried down in the fifth paragraph is a statement by Bank of Israel
Supervisor of Banks Dr. Yitzhak Tal, who claims that the Israeli banking
system has been the target of "primitive and insignificant" cyber
attacks.
Israel's
Business Arena
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contributed by Lif3r
The US Navy is looking into adding real-time intrusion detection
capabilities into its network defenses.
Federal
Computer Week
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contributed by Anonymous
Cracked
Things have seemed to be a little slow lately. Maybe because it is
summertime. With the new IIS hole things will probably pick up. These
are the sites that have been reported as cracked.
http://www.skinheads.com
http://www.softlink.cz
http://rs-nt-1.une.edu.au
http://virtual.lead.org
http://www.shoot-n-iron.com
http://www.zophar.com
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