contributed by Brian Oblivion
A semi-mythical technology, Tempest, is starting to see some daylight. The cypherpunks sent out FOIA requests on TEMPEST documents and they received the first shipment on Friday. They have transcribed these documents and put them on line.

Cryptome

contributed by evilwench
The virus that infected Marine Corps HQ computers at the Pentagon last Friday has been identified as Explorer.Zip. Officials have confirmed that this was not any sort of cyber attack. (Explorer.Zip has been around since June which makes one wonder how often the Marines updated their Virus definition files or if they had any protection at all.)

CNN
Federal Computer Week

contributed by evilwench
Bank ATMs in Moscow seem to have been compromised by intruders who are stealing pin numbers, and therefore money, from peoples' accounts. It is unclear how this theft is occurring or how many people have been affected but it is believed that the criminals are intercepting communication between the ATM and the bank.

Russia Today

contributed by evilwench
Somehow something that has absolutely nothing at all to do with hacking has been blamed on hackers. Emergency warning sirens in Boone County, Kentucky have been activated by a random prankster. This was done by duplicating the radio signals needed to activate the system. (They don't have an off switch?) This nefarious activity was blamed on the evil "hacker".

APB Online

contributed by turtlex
There are over 24 variations of the Melissa virus now in existence. Melissa.U[Gen1] is the latest variant which has infected over 40,000 hosts. Experts fear that many more variations are on the horizon.

ZD Net

contributed by Code Kid
A man in Missouri has had his computer confiscated and will have charges of making threats brought against him. This after he made threats against students and teachers at the Townsend's Hawthorne Brook Middle School in Massachusetts. Somehow this was described as a 'Cyberterrorist' act. (Threats on a playground are just threats, threats on the internet are suddenly cyberterroism.)

Associated Press - Via AltaVista

contributed by evilwench
Internet-Computer Addiction Services is a Redmond WA counseling center that specializes in treating people who are addicted to being online. The founders Jay Parker, Hilarie Cash and others feel that online addiction is just as powerful as gambling, alcohol or drugs.

Seattle Times