contributed by Simple Nomad
Currently most employers can read their employee's email, with very few considering the privacy of their employees. California Governor Gray Davis is considering a bill that would require a company to have a written policy regarding email eavesdropping before the employer can actually read their employee's email.

San Francisco Examiner

contributed by no0ne
12 months probation and 100 hours of community service was the penalty imposed on a 15 year old boy who electronically broke into the internet site of the "Television Corporation of Singapore". The Myanmar citizen is believed to be the first one to appear in a Singaporean court for such an offense. The break-in occurred last June when the boy saw a TV ad showing the TV company's web site address and tried various usernames and passwords in an effort to get into the firm's server. He got in using "news" for both fields. (Someone should punish the admin of the site as well for having such crappy security.)

The Straits Times

contributed by Weld Pond
Congress has appropriated $28 million to fund a venture capitol firm with the name of 'In-Q-It'. The firm will use the money to invest in small high-tech companies who are working on promising technological projects that could benefit the CIA. The new corporation will be completely independent of the CIA and will be headed by Gilman Louie, founder of Microprose and ex-executive of Hasboro.

Nando Times
Wired

contributed by Weld Pond
So what exactly are the features of a remote admin tool that cause it to be labeled as malicious by AntiVirus vendors? WinWhatWhere, which was actually built to spy on people, avoids this hapless moniker while commercial software such as NetBus and freeware such as BO2K get branded as evil malicious code. What the hell is going on here?

ZD Net

contributed by Elinor
With the recent holes found in IE, Hotmail, NT, Office and other Microsoft products many people think that Microsoft just writes insecure code. Microsoft says that their code is no worse than anyone else's but that what they write is looked at by a lot more people. (This article gives a good overview of a lot of the technical hurdles Microsoft faces.)

CNN

contributed by mentesinquietas
The folks who recently took up PC Week on its offer to break into a test system and succeeded have published just exactly how they did it.

!Hispahack - English
!Hispahack - Spanish

contributed by Outkast
After almost 2 years Darktide Hacking has closed its doors. The site offered underground news, newbie help guides, Linux documentation and more. They will be missed. Outkast, the sites web master, hopes to open a new site with a different focus soon.

Darktide Hacking