contributed by Kingpin
XS4ALL, one of the first ISPs in the world , has been summoned into court next week in connection to its refussual to obey a government ordered wire tap. When presented with an order last year to monitor all traffic (email, web, IRC, etc.) of one of its users, XS4ALL refused on the grounds that they felt the government order was illegal. Now they have to appear in court to defend themselves. XS4ALL was one of the first ISPs in the world and has been a favorite stomping ground for true hackers since its inception.

XS4ALL

contributed demoniz
Tuesday the Virus Information Center released a HTML virus which works through Internet Explorer 4.0 and relies on the scripting feature, VBScript, built into the latest Microsoft PC operating system, Windows 98. If security warnings are ignored, the virus will load via a Web page and infect other Web pages on the host computer.

Demonstration Virus
Wired
TechWeb

contributed by Byron.Sonne
Yesterday we reported on how Finland has absolutely no restrictions on strong cryptography. We where reminded that Canada has similar legislation.

Industry Canada

contributed by cereal772
We have recieved a coupla of emails yesterday claiming that a German Hacker Group broke into the Deutsche Bank central computer system. We have been unable to confirm this report. We know nothing more than that. If anyone has any more info like who it wa s and how they did it please let us know. A URL would be nice as well.

We also got a humours email a few days ago from Sw3wn about www.worldhacking.com (world hacking federation, a warez kiddy group) that seems to have been hacked. It is still not fixed yet, evidently a script has be en set up to make sure the 'hacked' page stays there. It seems that the group has register another domain, worldhacking.org instead of fixing the first one.