contributed by Space Rogue
Scientific American actually gets it right. "The software equivalents of crowbars and lockpicks are available on-line. Hackers don't need to be programmers these days any more than burglars need to be architects."

Scientific American

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IBM announces the Cramer-Shoup cryptographic system that they say is resistant to active attacks.

IBM

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Following concerns that foriegn terrorists could gather to much info from public web sites, the U.S. Goverment has finnally drafted a policy on what can and can not be posted to Government web sites.

Federal Computer Week
MSNBC

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Security experts can't keep up. Crackers are developing more tools and finding more holes faster than security experts can monitor.

Tech Web

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The Navy says that crackers are defeating some of the best intrusion detection software. By launching attacks that take days or weeks and operate very slowly it is difficult to detect them before they can cause damage.

C|Net

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Artcile on CyberTerrorism. Nothing new here but some interesting quotes.

CNN

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Miss your 16K RAM upgrade for your Sinclair? Have dreams about your old Mattell Aquarius? Still have that Apple Lisa tucked away in a closet? Have nightmares about that Cromemco upgrade for your Altair? Then visit Vintage Computer Festival held last weekend in Santa Clara CA.

Wired

The Vintage Computer Festival

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Testimony in front of the Government Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen. Fred Thompson (Tenn), found that the Social Security Administration and the Department of Veterans Affairs have major security problems within thier computer networks. Allowing possible intruders access to private medical records and other information.

Federal Computer Week

And it gets worse as SSA employees sell private records to Credit Card Thieves.
Nando Times

A little late but other sites picked up this story Friday. Some of the things in these reports are pretty damn scary.
CMP Net
Detriot News
Nando Times
ZD Net
USA Today

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Updated!

Finnally somone is telling the Government what hackers have known for years. Windows NT is not secure! At least when it comes to C2 compliance. Hopefully the Navy and others will wake up in time, before they spend billions of our money to install it.

MSNBC

Wired - A little late but a better article.

contributed by Space Rogue

Updated!

It seems hypocritical of the US Government to be releasing pr0n to the public (i.e. Kenneth Star Report) and at the same making such actions criminal.

The Child Online Protection Act (CDA II) (H.R. 3783) requires web admins to limit access to material considered 'harmful to minors'. The bill has passed the full Commerce Committee and is on its way to the House. Lets hope they are do busy dealing with Monica to vote this session.

Nando Times
CMP Net
ZD Net
Wired

Check to see if your congressman is a hypocrite.

TBTF - Cool Site

SurfWatch, CYBERSItter, BESS and Smart Filter have added the Starr report to thier list of banned items. How funny is that?

Censorware