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contributed by Evil Wench
A survey of 150 UK-based IT managers and directors who use the
Internet as a business tool, found that one third of them did not have
adequate measures in place to prevent a cyber attack. The study,
conducted by Novell, found that 37% of UK companies on the net have no
firewall and 44% do not make use of authentication.
Info-Sec.com
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contributed by pyrodude2001
According to school officials at Spencerport High School a student may
have accessed the grading system of the school's computer and changed a
few of them. Officials are unsure of how the intrusion occurred or if
in fact any grades where changed. As a precaution teachers will
manually verify the grades in the computer with their records.
Rochester
News
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contributed by Weld Pond
What do Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers all
seem to have in common? According this article it is that all of them
are looking for ex-law enforcement personnel to work in their computer
forensic divisions. No, they don't want people who have been dealing
with computer security since they where three, they want someone with a
background in dealing with rapists and hit men.
NY
Times - Yes registration is required. Just use a fake address.
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contributed by vision
arachNIDS (Advanced Reference Archive of Current Heuristics for Network
Intrusion Detection Systems) is now open to the public. The database
is an attempt to profile probes, exploits, and other network-borne
attacks by way of packet details, example sniffer traces of the attack,
and a signature that can be exported for use in free IDS products such
as Snort. This preliminary release will be greatly expanded upon as
time goes by.
Whitehats.com
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contributed by del0rean
Butchered From Inside is an electronic publication of free speech and
distribution. Issue #7 has just been released and it includes articles
on spoofing, CCC Camp review, Gork, and WinnAMP. Sorry, it is in
Italian only.
Butchered From Inside
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