contributed by evilwench
They aren't giving up. The Cyberspace Electronic Security Act is currently being drafted by the Clinton administration. In this latest bill, the administration proposes that law enforcement agents have access to decryption keys held by recovery agents. The proposed law also allows the government to obtain search warrants to find decryption keys if they are not held by recovery agents. (Maybe the feeling is that if they keep submitting new bills, one of them, eventually, will get through. Unfortunately they are probably correct.)

Federal Computer Week

contributed by Brian Oblivion
Cyberspace Electronic Security Act, CALEA, OECD, The Wassenaar Arrangement, SAFE, HR-2616, S798, HR-2617, UCITA, and on and on and on. Just what the hell is going on? The government wants crypto controls and the public doesn't.

Buffer Overflow

contributed by ladysharrow
After being chastised by his former employer, Scott Reid, 23, broke into the The Vodaphone paging network and told 32,000 international users that they had won a free car. To claim the car all they needed to do was call GS (UK), his former employer. GS (UK), is a Nottingham firm supplying software for the embroidery industry. This caused a massive denial of service against the companies phone system that lasted for three days. He also emailed the colormatch virus to GS (UK) and other firms in the embroidery business. He has been sentenced to three months in jail and has had his computer confiscated.

The UK Telegraph

contributed by mdfranz
Besides numerous bug fixes and feature enhancements, this latest version of Trinux now provides several new or previously unavailable tools. Including ngrep, hunt and evilwm. Trinux is a secure distribution of Linux that boots from floppy into RAM. If you have console access you own the box.

Trinux

contributed by dis-crete
A report released by Mi2g software claims that the Black Hand, a Serbian paramilitary group, attacked more than 170 organizations worldwide via the internet during the Kosovan conflict. Evidently M12g was able to trace these attacks that were spread out among various organizations back to people associated with the Black Hand group in Belgrade. (Sure would like a copy of this report to pick apart, too bad they make you pay for it. Hmmm, interesting, they also sell security consulting services. Can you say FUD?)

The Times
Mi2g

contributed by Dr. Who
If you didn't make it to Defcon, or blew your dough at the roulette table you can still get your Defcon 7 t-shirts. Leftover Defcon 7 shirts are being sold on E-Bay.

E-Bay

Don't forget to grab your HNN shirt as well.

HNN T-Shirts

contributed by archive
They are back and raring to go. Electronic Underground Affiliation has released the new August edition of the EUA Monthly. Coverage of the Mitnick Trial * LAN WAN Security * Phreaking for Dummies * Zip Boxes * and lot's more. This zine is done in PDF format to be web friendly.

EUA Monthly

contributed by BinaryZer0
Black.Box is an electronic magazine dealing with security issues, technology, documentation, information, various OS information, as well as humour-related articles.

Black Box