contributed by Space Rogue
Early Monday morning one of the the four web servers for the US Army came under attack. The web page poked at the FBI and their recent raids of the members of the group gH. www4.army.mil was quickly noticed as being defaced and was restored by 6am. It is believed that the attackers used a highly publicized exploit for Cold Fusion, an exploit for which a patch has been available for weeks.(Hmmmmm, maybe I should reenlist and help them out?)

HNN Defaced Pages Archive - Be sure to read the html comments.
CNN
San Jose Mecury News
APB Online
MSNBC
Nando Times
ZD Net

contributed by Weld Pond
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 was primarily passed to reform the welfare system in the United States. One of the little known provisions of this law is that employers must report all new hires and salary changes to the government on a quarterly basis, this information eventually makes its way to the Administration for Children and Families. Starting next month the program will require banks to search for accounts on people determined to be delinquent on their child-support payments. (Ed Note: This is an eye opening article and is recommended. It is long and the good stuff is at the bottom.)

The Charlotte Observer

contributed by Weld Pond
The A5/1 over-the-air voice privacy algorithm used by almost all GSM digital phones is no longer secure. A5/1 is the algorithm used by GSM phones to encrypt communications. It is theorized that software to decrypt captured conversations will be available within a year. The COMP128 algorithm used to authenticate GSM phones for network access, was cracked last year.

The Australian

contributed by Adam
This article asks the right question "Is Microsoft a threat to national security?" but misses a few key points. The threat is worse than this article says. Remember Melissa made it on board a Navy ship and jumped the supposed air-gap onto SIPRNet two things that could not have happened if the military was not dependent on one company's productsts. The article talks about a CyberUL type of organization, this idea has been around for a while and was first proposed by Tan. Oh, and the part of a Mac being unhackable, don't believe it.

Forbes
CyberUL Proposal- By Tan
HNN Archive for March 31, 1999- Melissa on board 7th Fleet
HNN Archive for April 5, 1999- Melissa Jumps AirGap onto SIPRNet

contributed by Aleph One
BUGTRAQ, the premier security mailing list, will officially be moving from its current home at Netspace.org to Securityfocus.com on July 5th. Security Focus will be a major security web site featuring complete BugTraq archives, Daily News, vulnerability information and lots lots more.

Security-Focus
InfoWorld

contributed by Code Kid
Microsoft is planning to give away up to $25 million over the next five years, or half of it proceeds from its antipiracy efforts, toward technology access and education projects around the world. MS estimates that it will receive aprox $10 million in civil and criminal antipiracy proceeds annually over the next five years.

Wired

contributed by RickDogg
The Home Shopping Network will introduce biometric security to a large variety of consumers when it launches its voice-print technology next month. This new technology will enable HSN to automatically identify customers by their voice. This will allow repeat customers to order products faster and will allow HSN to create a very accurate customer database.

Wired

contributed by Kingpin
Too poor to buy a Palm VII? Don't want to risk your new toy? Well one brave soul has taken apart his Palm VII, taken pictures, and posted them to the web. A nice treat for you hardware guys.

The Gadgeteer

contributed by Space Rogue
A lot of people have asked just who is it that runs HNN and keeps the place together. We have created a page to answer just that question. The page even has pictures and everything.

Who Is HNN?

HNN will be packing up shop and heading for Las Vegas sometime around Wednesday next week. We will do what we can to update the site remotely but the updates may be periodic at best. Besides who is going to be around to read HNN if everyone is at Defcon?

contributed by Anonymous
Cracked
The following sites have been reported as cracked.
http://www.topaccess.com.br
http://www.nic.bo
http://ntciasc05.ciasc.gov.br
http://dbserv.ils.unc.edu
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu
http://www.cyberpimp.com
http://www.crossinit.org
http://www.coldflame.org
http://www.christfamilychurch.org
http://www.avcdirect.com
http://www.canyonriver.com
http://www.cinewave.com
http://www.computersworth.com
http://www.ctektx.com
http://www.cybertech2000.com
http://www.dfw-nt.com
http://www.graceandgrace.com
http://www.graytech.com
http://www.meusa.com
http://www.mjdistribution.com
http://www.webdallas.com
http://www.softwarewholeseller.com
http://www.shamrock-bolt.com
http://www.number14.com