contributed by Demol|sh
Early Friday morning the web page of the Laboratory of Acceleration and Applied Superconductives in Italy was hacked by a hacking group known as The Mersonaries. They have claimed that no data was damaged or destroyed. Only the home page of the site had been changed. The hacked page asked the administrators of the site to 'please, add some stronger security'. The Mersonaries feel that this research facility is conducting some sort of nuclear research. In their opinion sites that are doing such high level and dangerous work should have much higher levels of security on machines that they have connected to the w orld wide accessible internet.

Original Site - May still be Hacked
HNN archive of hacked page

contributed by Weld and Silicosis
The Free Congress Foundation is urging that congressional hearings be held on Echelon, the global electronic monitoring network and the NSAs use of it. Echelon is rumored to be capable of intercepting all world wide transmissions from phone calls, emails , Faxes even cellular phones.

Free Congress Foundation
World Net Daily

contributed by Space Rogue
Agent Steel, the hacker/FBI informant who was rumored to be on the run from the law by ZD Net last week has posted a web page. Agent Steel (Justin Peterson) who was instrumental in the tracking and eventual capture of Kevin Mitnick claims to have now left th e country. His new web site also says that he will probably not be present at Mitnick's trial for the prosecution or defense.

Agent Steel's Page
ZD Net

contributed by Space Rogue
Network Associates Inc., a computer security giant, has quietly rejoined the Key Recovery Alliance. NAI, which owns PGP, dropped out of the alliance a year ago to protect PGPs integrity.

Wired

contributed by The First Doobie
We have a report that ICQ, the popular internet messaging tool, will scan your hard drive looking for pirated software and report that information back to AOL.

ICQ details