contributed by Fedb0y
The Technology Subcommittee of the House Committee on Science heard expert testimony on Thursday claiming that computer security training is desperately needed. The experts stressed that most federal employees do not take computer security seriously and that this is one reason for the numerous successful attacks on federal systems. Another reason that was given was the low salaries for properly trained security personnel. When good people are found or developed in house they are usually lured away by the private sector.

San Jose Mercury News
ABC News
USA Today
APB Online
MSNBC
US House Committee on Science

Congress May Ask for Regular Security Reports
At the above hearing Rep. Connie Morella (R-Md.) mentioned that federal agencies should report the status of their computer security to Congress on a regular basis. She plans to include the requirement in her revisement of the Computer Security Act of 1987. All three witnesses at the hearing agreed this was a good idea.

Federal Computer Week

Additional Government Sites Defaced
While hearings where being held additional government sites where being defaced. This time it was Monmouth Army Base and the Argonne National Labs library. (mirrors provided by attrition)

HNN Defaced Pages Archive

contributed by Warez Dude
The University of Teesside will soon offer a four year degree in warez. Courses will obviously include programing but also the history of warez, good game design and other topics to prepare graduates for entry into the booming computer game industry.

BBC
Teesside University

contributed by angus
Yesterday HNN mentioned that HNC Network would be providing a webcast of DefCon for $29.95. These sites will also be broadcasting live audio and video streams of selected speakers, interviews and video live from the show floor. These feeds are FREE to the public.

Pirate Radio UK
Hacksec

contributed by pbradely
Hayes, the old modem manufacturer, may not live any longer but its legacy lives on. Hayes originally had the patent on the escape sequence "+ + + ATH" (without the spaces) It would appear that many modems manufacturers are still not paying the royalties for TIES (Time Independent Escape Sequence). As discovered years ago this escape sequence will force many modems to go offline or into command mode forcing a reboot. An excellent DoS attack. MacInTouch has an interesting new report on this OS independent problem. If you find that you are susceptible to this ancient flaw you can try changing the value of the S2 register to something greater than 127. (Consult your modem manual on how to do this.)

Macintouch Report
BugTraq Archive Sept 1998

contributed by Space Rogue
If you where victimized by Thursdays outage at UUNet be sure to check out Thursdays news. HNN is proud to announce that Defcon is finally an HNN Affiliate. HNN has added a Privacy Statement to appease our advertisers. The folks at the SETI@Home project have overcome their initial 'lack of data' problem, if you are interested the HNN Team could use some assistance.

contributed by Anonymous
Cracked The following sites have been reported as Cracked:
http://www.cpr-training.com
http://www.magnaflow.com
http://www.library.anl.gov
http://www.industrialbikes.com
http://www.monmouth.army.mil
http://www.sterzing.com
http://www.unicef.org.ar
http://cis.georgefox.edu
http://arcvirtualcampus.org
http://www.musclecars.org
http://www.habaco.com
http://www.iphase.com
http://www.arkon.net
http://www.art-by-kaki.com
http://www.dcclan.com
http://www.heckerdesign.com
http://www.nlac.gov.tw
http://www.pixeled.com
http://www.twilightsoftware.com
http://www.cpac.org
http://www.forpc.com.au
http://www.orgplanning.com
http://www.nethelpnow.com
http://www.appliedcls.com
http://www.craigcph.com
http://www.damascusbakery.com