contributed by Space Rogue
Everyone wants a piece of the Anti BO2K press pie. Both Aladdin Knowledge Systems and BindView Development have announced products that claim to protect users from the malicious use of Back Orifice 2000. The BindView product looks like nothing more than a signature ID program, useless against an open source application such as BO2K. The Aladdin product actually looks interesting claiming to trap BO2K and other malicious email attachments in a 'sandbox' and detecting attempts to modify system files. This method should protect against the numerous mutations that will undoubtedly appear.

Excite News - BindView
BindView Development - BO2K Advisory

Excite News - Aladdin
eSafe - Aladdin's Security Product

contributed by Weld Pond
A major hole in IIS announced by Microsoft last year has still not been patched by most customers. Eight lines of code is all that is needed to take full control at the system level of major popular web sites. The problem is that under certain conditions a user can connect directly to MS Access through IIS which then of course gives the attacker full system privileges.

MSNBC
Microsoft - Old
Micorsoft - New

contributed by DaFed
The FBI has announced a major new initiative in fighting crime, the National Crime Information Center 2000. This new system replaces the original NCIC, at a cost of $183.2 million, which was used since 1967. The NCIC 2000 indexes and cross references several different crime related databases such as those containing information on stolen guns, deported felons, missing persons and stolen vehicles. We sure hope that this version of NCIC is more secure than the last one.

CNN

contributed by Code Kid
Companies engaged in e-commerce are 57 percent more likely to suffer an information security breach than those that don't do business online, according to a survey published in ICSA Inc.'s Information Security magazine. The survey found that companies conducting business online are 57 percent more likely to experience a proprietary information leak and 24 percent more likely to experience an unwanted intrusion into their systems.

Information Security Magazine- 1999 Information Security Industry Survey

contributed by Code Kid
Obviously a story written without much research, John Kroll claims that cyberspace is relatively safe. While his article pretty much only covers fraud on eBay the overall tone would give most people the wrong impression of life in cyberspace.

Cleveland Live

contributed by cult
An article in the Ottawa Citizen details recent claims made by attrition.org about the activities and FBI investigation of AntiOnline founder John Vranesevich. Unfortunately this article has no comments from the FBI. John Vranesevich refused to discuss the matter with the reporter and is now threatening a lawsuit over the article.

Ottawa Citizen
Attrition.org- Negation

Late Update
The Ottawa Citizen has either pulled or moved the above article. The folks at Attrition have been kind enough to archive a copy for your reading pleasure.

Attrition.org - Spy vs Spy In Hacker Underworld

contributed by Ryan
Parse has posted several video clips of Defcon as well as interviewers from some of the luminaries present.

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