contributed by Weld Pond
U.S. Army special agents from the Army Criminal Investigation Command have 'proved' that NetBus and Back Orifice can be used to hijack desktop camera and microphone applications for the purposes of industrial espionage, spying or to gather evidence for a criminal investigation. The commandeered cameras and microphones can then secretly send data to a monitoring station unbeknownst to the end user.

PC World

contributed by no0ne
While more than 1000 soldiers from both India and Pakistan died fighting in an undeclared war in the mountains of Kashmir, the two countries were slugging it out in cyber space too. Indian and Pakistani computer professionals in the United States and Europe helped their home countries by handing out information on how to cripple the enemy's computer systems. An interview with an Indian Army Major would not confirm that the attacks on computer systems where sponsored by the Pakistani government, and went on to say that India would not resort to such childish acts as cyber terrorism.

FairFax IT

contributed by mo0ne
The largest Czech savings bank, Ceska Sporitelna, may have had large amounts of its data stolen. Local police investigating the situation have not yet made any arrests. Customer names, addresses and complete list of transactions for more than 2.5 million clients are supposedly no longer in the banks hands. It is unclear from this article what the thief of this information wants.

Internet News

contributed by no0ne
London-based mi2g software has claimed to have done a 'post mortem' of the defacement of the NASDAQ web site, perpetrated last week by the United Loan Gunmen. mi2g is claiming that unpatched vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Information Server were exploited. (And how do they know this? Are they sure it was IIS and not NT? Did NASDAQ hire these people to analyze the logs? Or are they just making stuff up?)

The UK Register
mi2g Software

contributed by cruento
Packet Storm Security is supposed to reopen its doors today under the new ownership of The Kroll-O'Gara Company. (Last we checked the site still wasn't open)

Packet Storm Security