Security News

Cyber Ethics contest will join Hacker Jeopardy
2001-06-26 16:53

shameless self-promotion: Cyber Ethics contest will join Hacker Jeopardy and Spot the Fed at DefCon. By Kevin Poulsen May 31, 2001 4:59 PM PT

Bank confirms crackers break into website
2001-06-25 09:44

http://it.mycareer.com.au/breaking/2001/06/25/FFX87XS4DOC.html Monday 25 June, 2001 14:53 GMT+10:00 By BARRY PARK, FAIRFAX IT The National Australia Bank has confirmed that online vandals broke...

[Satire] Survey: Majority of Web Users are FBI Agents Posing as Teenage Girls
2001-06-25 09:00

http://www.satirewire.com/news/0008/satire-fbiteens.shtml NEW YORK, N.Y. (SatireWire.com) The Internet reached a demographic milestone this week as a new study revealed that for the first time,...

CIA can't foresee computer attacks, official says
2001-06-22 01:12

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/30632p-523453c.html By D. IAN HOPPER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (June 21, 2001 2:54 p.m. EDT) - The CIA is unable to predict attacks on U.S. computer...

How the FBI Investigates Computer Crime
2001-06-22 01:10

http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/FBI_investigates_crime.html CERT Coordination Center How the FBI Investigates Computer Crime ------------------------------------------------------------------...

Weak security taints directory
2001-06-19 08:44

http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47-68-84-88_STO61444,00.html [Not to encourge the masses, but I was able to register C4I.org rather easily through the Microsoft Passport side of the...

TVA workers reprimanded for alien search
2001-06-19 08:32

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/28884p-501336c.html By RICHARD POWELSON, Scripps Howard News Service (June 18, 2001 03:51 p.m. EDT) - Most employees of the federal Tennessee Valley...

George Fabyan celebrated for fostering first think tank
2001-06-16 19:16

http://www.nandotimes.com/entertainment/story/26312p-469652c.html By F.N. D'ALESSIO, Associated Press GENEVA, Ill. (June 13, 2001 09:34 p.m. EDT) - On a laboratory wall 40 miles west of Chicago, a...

Re: Pentagon Reverses Order to Destroy Old Hard Drives
2001-06-14 17:09

The Pentagon will have to overwrite the hard drives of computers being donated or going to the public, which it had done for years before the January edict.

Witnesses: Teen hacker intended to disable Internet sites
2001-06-14 06:25

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/26327p-470291c.html MONTREAL (June 13, 2001 09:48 p.m. EDT) - Witnesses told a sentencing hearing Wednesday that a 16-year-old computer hacker illegally...