contributed by AlienPlaque
Just several weeks after a major Hotmail security hole left 40 million Hotmail accounts freely open to anyone on the Internet, yet another hole has been discovered. The new hole allows embedded JavaScript in the 'style' tag to "jimmy open" accounts. While it looks like the problem could easily be solved by having Hotmail disable the style tags as it does regular JavaScript, Microsoft says "This is not a security issue."

ZD Net
Internet News

contributed by Simple Nomad
Nomad Mobil Research Center, an HNN Affiliate, has released an advisory regarding Bindview's HackerShield scanner. During installation of the product (including the demo) a Service User with a non machine specific password is created.

NMRC
BindView

contributed by AlienPlaque
Globalstar, a satellite phone firm, is close to an agreement with federal law enforcement officials who had threatened to delay its service if the FBI couldn't wiretap phone conversations. Even though the company is based in Canada, it needs to win approval from the Federal Communications Commission, which has already held up a license for another company due to concerns that the FBI would not be able to wiretap and monitor its service.

C|Net

contributed by evil wench
The 'United Loan Gunmen" who recently claimed responsibility for defacing CSPAN and ABC have now replaced the home page of the political commentary site of Matt Drudge, www.drudgereport.com.

HNN Defaced Pages Archive
Yahoo News
CNN
Nando Times

contributed by Anonymous
The official statistic web site for South Africa was defaced recently. The site is used mainly by economists looking for information such as the consumer price index, manufacturing production and gross domestic product growth.

Excite News
Attrition Mirror

contributed by Simple Nomad
This article spreads a bit of FUD that manages to implicate Israel and India in plots to plant backdoors in U.S. systems because of the out-sourced Y2K programming efforts that utilize those country's programmers. It is of course possible that Israeli and Indian programmers might backdoor their code, but so might programmers from anywhere else. Somehow HERF guns make it into this article as well. This article is great if you are planning on preying upon the Y2K paranoid survivalist crowd.

Network Fusion

contributed by Space Rogue
A lot of people have been sending in a link to a recent Newsweek article and are wondering why HNN has not mentioned it. The article claims that the Russians are on our cyber back door waiting to break in. The article is written so that it appears that this is a current event. It is not. It is months old. Operation Moonlight Maze, as discussed in the article took place last spring, the DOD password change also mentioned in the article happened last month. While news outlets like Newsweek may think it is OK to report on stuff that is months old HNN tries to only report on timely events.

Newsweek