contributed by thievco
30 percent of fortune 500 companies have admitted to installing software capable of launching counterattacks against crackers. This from a study conducted by WarRoom Research due to be released next month.

Internet Week

contributed by Space Rogue
Japanese Network Information Center is unhappy with two proposals for legislation submitted by the National Police Agency and the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. The proposals cover the unauthorized access of computer systems in Japan. Evidently JNIC is very concerned as to the ambiguities in the proposals such as the definition of "Unauthorized Access" and the requirements of sysadmins to store log files for up to three months.

AsiaBizTech

contributed by fallen_angel
Cyberterrorism - Does the internet pose a threat to national security. C|net reports on the bust of Chameleon and NOID. They interview Chameleon and an FBI agent. It will air on the SciFi channel so check your local listings.

C|Net

contributed by Axon
Hackers Information Report (HiR) is a text-based electronic magazine geared toward Real Hacking. Their first issue in about 6 months, HiR 7, has finally been released.

HiR Distro site

contributed by Freaky
Blacklisted! 411; Volume 5, Issue 2. Second Quarter should now be available at better newsstands everywhere. This print zine covers various hacking topics.

Blacklisted 411 - Thanks to everyone who sent this in.

contributed by Space Rogue
Some guy in South Korea registers a couple of domain names and the mainstream media calls him a "web wiz". This is just as bad as labeling some script kiddie as a "computer genius".

Nando Times

contributed by GodLess - PFG
Clarin group, an Argentinean media conglomerate, had a number of pages cracked for a couple of hours on 12/02/1998. The hacked pages were:

- Grupo Clarin (www.grupoclarin.com.ar)
- Clarin newspaper (www.clarin.com.ar)
- Ole sports newspaper (www.diario-ole.com.ar)
- Frecuencia Web
- Internet Surf (www.isurf.com.ar)

The attack was perpetrated by X-Team and Forever Team. X-Team has defaced some sites in the last months and designed ad-honorem the "Madres de Plaza de Mayo" homepage. The hacked pages contained a request for flat local call charges and are posted for review on http://www.vilaweb.com/clarin The Clarin newspaper has the bigger readership on south-america, and it's homepage is certainly popular.