contributed by Roelof
So Melissa was a wake up call? What will the next one be like? How devastating will it be? What features will it have? An interesting and scary look at what the future of virus/trojans may hold.

Buffer Overflow

contributed by Code Kid
H.R. 2617, a bill sponsored by Porter Goss (R-Florida), seeks to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a tax credit for development costs of encryption products with plain text capability without the user's knowledge. This will give companies a great monetary incentive to create weak crypto. (It will also allow people to find out what publicly traded companies took advantage of this tax break, so you will know which products to avoid.)

The Federal Register
Wired

contributed by Turtlex
Evidently there are not enough government computer security agencies. The NSA's new National Security Incident Response Center issued a warning last week regarding attacks originating from a machine inside Israel. The 'attacks' appeared to be numerous port scans of government and military computers. (Love the acronym NS-IRC, hehehe.)

The Washington Times

contributed by Code Kid
The Electronic Communications Bill, proposed in Britain, could send users of encryption products to jail for up to two years. Basically if you send encrypted mail to someone who is being investigated by the police the police can ask you for your keys. If you refuse you could get up to two years in jail. Tip off the person who received the encrypted message and get five years.

CNN

contributed by Space Rogue
A hole in the Jet 3.51 driver (ODBCJT32.DLL) leaves users vulnerable to attack. Such an attack would leave the system in such a state that the attacker could execute shell commands and give full control over your machine to the bad guy. Microsoft has verified the problem and is working on a security bulletin, in the mean time they recommend users upgrade to Jet 4.0.

MSNBC

contributed by Code Kid
In what is believed to be the first jail sentence for piracy in China, a man has been sentenced to four years in jail and fined US $2,400. The name of the company or the software was not mentioned.

Wired