contributed by AlienPlague
Jeffrey Gerard Levy, a 22 year-old senior at the University of Oregon in Eugene, has become the first person convicted of a felony under the No Electronic Theft Act of 1997, which punishes people for Internet copyright piracy. Levy could face up to three years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, despite the fact that there is no evidence showing that Levy profited in any way from his offerings. The sentencing hearing is scheduled for November 2nd.

ZD Net

contributed by AlienPlague
The 'Cyberspace Electronic Security Act', which HNN has previously reported on, is drawing much criticism and causing outrage amongst civil libertarians and high-tech industry trade groups. They say that the act not only violates Civil Rights, but "would make police break-ins far more common than they are now." While law enforcement agencies claim that encryption is detrimental to their job of tracking criminals and crime, most seem to feel that it is just another way the current administration will attempt to impose 'big brother' monitoring powers over American citizens.

MSNBC

contributed by TurTleX
A group known as the United Loan Gunmen defaced the main web page of ABC.com last week. The article also mention that wired.com itself was also defaced earlier this month.

Wired
HNN Defaced Pages Archive

contributed by Wizzy24
After electronically breaking into the General Bank of Belgium, ReDaTtAcK has been apprehended. He was traced via his cell phone and then arrested and later released. He has not been charged with computer intrusion as Belgium has no such law. Instead he will be charged with electronic eavesdropping charges after breaking into SkyNet a Belgian ISP run by the state owned telephone company Belgacom. ReDaTtAcK has stated that he will continue to do what he does.

The Standard - Dutch

contributed by Code Kid
While the GPS satellites themselves and most GPS receivers continued to function normally some units failed when the GPS date rolled over this past weekend. Many Japanese users of in car navigation systems experienced complete systems failure when the date rolled over. Four Japanese manufacturers of GPS systems have completed updating a little over half of the GPS systems sold in the country since 1996.

Yahoo News

contributed by Erik
www.mindsec.com goes live today, providing a search engine to search 90 different sites that are security and administration related. MindSec will also have product reviews on admin and security applications and hardware.

MindSec

contributed by Erik
John Deutch, former director of the CIA, has had his security clearance revoked after it was found that he kept classified material on his home PC.

Yahoo News

contributed by Weld Pond
After a lot of hard work we are ready to unveil the first of many new HNN features. A Java based news ticker is now available. Get the latest HNN headlines on your web site. Just insert the snippet of code provided and an automatically scrolling news ticker will appear. This code as well as graphics and other goodies can be found on the Affiliate Resources page.

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