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"Justice Dept. Urges Cops to Keep Up With Cybercrime"
Newsbytes (08/31/00)
The Justice Department released a report late last week
warning that criminals are threatening to lap law enforcement
agencies in terms of
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (September 9, 2000 8:41 p.m. EDT
http://www.nandotimes.com) - A 15-year-old unlicensed driver who
crashed through a fence and ran over a stop sign may have bought the
car by tapping a state account through the Internet, police say.
Terrance Lloyd bought the $15,000 Plymouth
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Computer-related crimes to plague Olympics
By Sandra Van Dijk
Computerworld Australia
SYDNEY -- THE Olympic Games provide an environment for crime to flourish, especially
in the areas of credit card fraud and counterfeit currency,
Silicon Valley, Irish Police Connect to Fight High-Tech Crime
Matthew B. Stannard, Chronicle Staff Writer
SEPTEMBER 14, 2000, THURSDAY, FINAL EDITION
Copyright 2000 The Chronicle Publishing Co.
The San Francisco Chronicle Silicon Valley police met their peers from Silicon Isle
yesterday as
The virus writer who created the infamous Chernobyl virus has been
detained by authorities in Taiwan and could face up to three years in
jail.
Chen Ing-hau escaped prosecution after being detained in 1999 but a
Taiwanese student whose computer was this year crippled by the virus
has brought
JOHN L. PETTERSON; The Kansas City Star
Copyright 2000 The Kansas City Star Co.
September 16, 2000, Saturday METROPOLITAN EDITION
TOPEKA - The Kansas Lottery's former computer manager was charged
Friday with 268 counts of computer crime, theft and official
misconduct for allegedly
Smart cards finally arrive in the US
(09/14/2000) Having been popular in Europe for years, the smart card has made it
finally to the US. Credit card giant Visa USA has launched "smart Visa", a
multifunctional chip payment platform. The platform will provide several pre-packaged
applications
FITTING A PUNISHMENT TO WHITE-COLLAR CRIME
September 12, 2000, Tuesday, METRO EDITION
Copyright 2000 The Roanoke Times World News
Roanoke Times World News
WHITE-COLLAR crime rarely prompts the outrage or draws the lengthy prison sentences of
street crimes.
It leaves no violated or bleeding
QUALCOMM CEO'S LAPTOP STOLEN FOLLOWING SPEECH
MEG JAMES, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Copyright 2000 / Los Angeles Times
September 18, 2000, Monday, Home Edition
A team of techno-sleuths spent Sunday trying to find the stolen computer of Qualcomm
CEO Irwin Jacobs after the laptop--which contained
netMIND Foils Hackers; Contestants Unable to Breach the Internet Firewall Appliance's
Security
Copyright 2000 Business Wire, Inc.
In spite of the flurry of Internet traffic, pings and port scanning, no one was able
to penetrate the netMIND(TM) firewall and claim the $1,000.00 prize offered
SEC settles Net fraud case with teen
By Reuters
September 20, 2000 2:40 PM PT
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WASHINGTON -- The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday settled a case
against a New Jersey teen who allegedly made more than $272,000 in
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A TEENAGE schoolboy has been jailed for six months for hacking into top-secret
computers at the Pentagon and NASA headquarters.
Jonathan
FORT MEADE, Md. (Reuters) - The super-secret National Security Agency
(NSA), which eavesdrops on communications worldwide as part of U.S.
spying operations, opened its doors on Saturday to offer outsiders a
rare glimpse of facilities that test antennas and print nuclear code
books.
About 16,500
Sep 25, 2000 - 11:10 PM
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) - A hacker broke into a computer system at
Walt Disney World last week where hundreds of guests' names, addresses
and mug shots are available, a company spokesman said Monday.
The hacker broke into a computer system used by the Leave a Legacy
By The Associated Press
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September 27, 2000, 9:20 p.m. PT
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FBI Surveillance Tool Questioned
By D. IAN HOPPER, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI's controversial e-mail surveillance tool, known as
Carnivore, can retrieve all communications that go through an Internet service - far
more than FBI officials have said it does - a recent
Internet Romance Leads to 2 Deaths
Jealous Husband Kills Wife's Lover, Self, Cops Say
Nov. 17, 2000
By Seamus McGraw
WESTERLY, R.I. (APBnews.com) -- Rickie Mandes slipped his old .45-caliber handgun into
his pocket. Then, police say, he took one last moment in his lonely apartment and
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By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, Associated Press
(November 20, 2000 7:09 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - City
workers in Oceanside, Calif., were drowning in passwords. One password
for e-mail, another to see
Thursday November 30 08:16 PM EST
AIM users prone to name hijacks
By Robert Lemos, ZDNet News
Flaws in the server used to sign up for AOL's Instant Messenger give hackers a way to
steal other users' names. But you can protect yourself.
Users of America Online's Instant Messenger application
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New virus creates Shockwaves
By Megan McAuliffe, ZDNet Australia
December 3, 2000 5:52 PM PT
URL: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2660381,00.html
The virus, known as TROJ_Shockwave.a arrives as an email message similar to the
infamous Melissa and Love Bug worms.
"We've learnt
Scarfo case could test cyber-spying tactic
By George Anastasia
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
A federal gambling case against the son of jailed mob boss Nicodemo "Little Nicky"
Scarfo could instead be the first legal test of cutting-edge cyber-surveillance
technology that some critics of federal
Police Have Few Weapons Against Cyber-Criminals
Problem Stems from Lack of Funds, Training
By Greg Farrell
December 06, 2000
At a time when law enforcement agencies are winning the war against violent crime,
they seem to be losing the war against cybercrime.
The problem: Law enforcement
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Cybercrimes Face Lax Prosecution
By LEIGH STROPE, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Criminal laws in most countries have not been extended into
cyberspace yet, potentially
Crime Lab Will Target Cyber Theft
Greg Rickabaugh South Carolina Bureau
December 07, 2000
Law enforcement agencies have a long way to go before they can fight cyber criminals
like they do common criminals, according to Aiken County Sheriff Howard Sellers.
A criminal who uses a computer as
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By PAMELA HESS
Wednesday, 6 December 2000 18:39 (ET)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- The Pentagon formally tapped the National
Guard and reserves to shore up the Defense Department's information
warfare apparatus Wednesday, calling for 182
Cyberspace Suicide Brings Death Net to Japan
Posted at 7:38 a.m. PST Saturday, Dec. 23, 2000
BY JON HERSKOVITZ
TOKYO (Reuters) - This is a modern tale of a middle-aged male dentist and an
unemployed young woman destined for an untimely demise.
They made contact in an Internet chat room. They
Port scans legal, judge says
Federal court finds that scanning a network doesn't cause damage, or threaten public
health and safety.
By Kevin Poulsen
December 18, 2000 9:05 AM PT
A tiff between two IT contractors that spiraled into federal court ended last month
with a U.S. district court
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By Robert Lemos, ZDNN
December 24, 2000 7:39 PM PT
URL: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2668051,00
New Shell Disrupts Electronics
December 28, 2000
LONDON, Dec 28 (UPI) -- British scientists have developed a non-explosive artillery
shell that can put out such a powerful burst of radio-frequency energy it will destroy
or disable electrical and electronic systems for miles around without
Defendant in Emulex stock hoax to plead guilty
Posted at 6:35 p.m. PST Thursday, Dec. 28, 2000
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A 23-year-old man will admit sabotaging the stock of Emulex Corp.
with a phony press release and will face a near four-year jail sentence, according to
a plea agreement that
Hordes of Zombies Could Bring Down the Net
December 29, 2000
WASHINGTON, DC, U.S.A., 2000 DEC 29 (Newsbytes) -- By Martin Stone, Newsbytes. The US
government reportedly fears that tens of thousands of computer systems may have been
turned into "zombies" waiting for commands from hackers to
Moscow 'school' trains hackers for a career
Toronto Globe and Mail Copyright 2001 Journal Sentinel Inc. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Moscow -- They call themselves "the Viper Brothers," "the Software Underground Empire"
and "Armageddon in Russia."
They borrow their philosophy from martial arts
Friday January 5 5:27 PM ET
FBI enlists help against cybercrime
By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - All 56 FBI (news - web sites) field offices have enlisted private
businesses around the nation in a program to share information about computer crime
and how to
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Possible Widespread Software Security Hole Found
Thursday, January 4, 2001 By Michael Della Bitta
NEW YORK An independent computer expert says he has found a gaping security hole in
widely used Internet software that could give hackers the ability to easily
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Hack attacks hit home;
U.S. turns its tech efforts to prevention;
U.S. takes steps on cyber terrorism
By TOM KIRCHOFER
Copyright 2001 Boston Herald Inc. The Boston Herald January 8, 2001
The term "national security" used to conjure images of warplanes in
FBI Plan: Cybercrime Info Sharing
Reuters 1:40 p.m. Jan. 5, 2001 PST
WASHINGTON -- The FBI announced Friday the completion of a program that seeks to
combat cybercrime by encouraging companies to share information about Internet attacks
they have experienced.
Participating companies and the
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THE HACKER CRACKDOWN
Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling
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By Reuters
January 8, 2001 3:53 PM PT
Macromedia Inc. on Monday said its own tests have shown there is no
risk that its popular Flash multimedia player could allow a computer
virus to be sent to attack the computers of Internet users.
The popular Flash software allows digital artists and Web
Time for MP3.com to pay the piper
By Steven Musil; CNET News.com
A federal judge ruled MP3.com willfully infringed the copyrights of Seagram's
Universal Music Group, opening the company to enormous potential damages in one of the
first trials to address the legal boundaries of Internet music
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"Industry Partners Help Battle Cybercrime"
Federal Computer Week Online (12/29/00); Kulisch, Eric
Thirteen companies, including Electronic Data Systems, General
Dynamics, Ameritech, Xerox, Comerica, Bank One, and Novell,
have joined the Wayne County,
by Michelle Delio
10:30 a.m. Jan. 9, 2001 PST
One of the Internet's oldest and most addictive forms of communication
is under attack, and may soon be nothing more than a memory.
Internet relay chat, or IRC, a free, multi-user chat service, has been
connecting people around the globe since
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By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
January 11, 2001, 3:50 p.m. PT
Borland's InterBase database software contains a "back door" that
allows anyone with the appropriate password to wreak major havoc with
the database and the computer it's
By Brian Krebs, Newsbytes
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.,
11 Jan 2001, 10:52 AM CST
The FBI is conducting an investigation into a ring of seven juvenile
hackers - three in the US and four based overseas - suspected of
plotting a series of virus and widespread denial-of-service attacks
planned to
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Document 7 of 7
YOUNG HACKERS' PLOT TO SABOTAGE INTERNET INVESTIGATED BY FBI;
CRIME: A TEENAGER FROM THE U.S. DENIES THAT HIS INTENTIONS WERE SERIOUS. HE SAYS HE
WAS TRYING TO IMPRESS OTHER YOUTHS.
JOSH MEYER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Copyright 2001 / Los
Global Child Porn Ring Broken
By Reuters
British detectives announced Wednesday that one of the world's largest Internet child
pornography networks had been broken up, thanks to a joint operation in which 107 men
were arrested in 12 countries.
Seven British men have admitted their part in
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Computer security company challenges hackers
By JUSTIN POPE, Associated Press
BOSTON (January 15, 2001 6:39 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - Gentlemen, start
your modems -- OpenHack III, a computer-hacking contest sponsored by eWeek magazine,
will
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Tech firms team up against hackers
Alliance to share information about cyber attacks
By Ted Bridis THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 Some of the biggest names in technology, including bitter rivals
Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp., are forming
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HOPEFULS START TO HACK AWAY AT ARGUS SYSTEM
The Associated Press
Copyright 2001 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Inc. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Gentlemen, start your modems.
OpenHack III, a computer-hacking contest sponsored by eWeek magazine, featured some
stiff
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The foes of cybercrime
Conference helps police close gap with online criminals
By Bob Sullivan
MSNBC
MASHANTUCKET, Conn., Jan. 22, 2001
Police in Boston had reached a dead end. They had a murder suspect, but not nearly
enough evidence, and the
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By: John Leyden
Posted: 24/01/2001 at 15:50 GMT
Hewlett-Packard has distributed printer drivers corrupted by a
computer virus. The infected drivers were inadvertently uploaded onto
the hardware giant's Web site, according to a report by Japanese news
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ISPs 'RIP' Into British Police by Michelle Delio
A stream of "stupid questions" posed by technically callow police officers trying to
enforce a controversial law are angering Britain's Internet service providers, who are
threatening to move their
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SATELLITE TV'S ATTACK HAS PIRATES SQUAWKING ABOUT 'BLACK SUNDAY'
May Wong The Associated Press
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Copyright 2001 The Commercial Appeal
After playing a cat-and-mouse game for years with hackers who steal its signal to get
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More outages ahead? Software for Internet has flaws
By Robert Lemos, ZDNN
January 29, 2001 1:57 PM PT
URL: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2679851,00.html
The major outages that hit Microsoft last week could become more commonplace because
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Two Charged for Selling Fake Goods
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ Two people who allegedly ran the www.fakegifts.com Web site face
federal charges they sold fake Cartier watches, Mont Blanc pens and other luxury goods
on the Internet.
Cartier Inc., which said it
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Beat the experts: Hackers infiltrate Bugtraq security list
By Robert Lemos, ZDNN
February 1, 2001 1:59 PM PT
URL:
It seems that even the experts get fooled sometimes.
A Trojan horse posing as a security tool did just that Wednesday night, when experts
at
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Password-stealing virus hits AOL
Year-old bug making the rounds again, McAfee says
MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
Feb. 1 2001
An antivirus company says an old America Online password-stealing virus has recently
gotten new life, and it issued a warning
NSA attempting to design crack-proof computer
By Robert Lemos, ZDNN
February 1, 2001 11:57 AM PT
Software emulation firm VMware announced it has teamed up with researchers at the
National Security Agency to create a nearly crack-proof computer that can place
sensitive data in virtual vaults
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"Computers May Give Clues in Arsenic Case"
Raleigh News and Observer (01/25/01) P. A1; Hempel, Carlene
Detectives in Raleigh, N.C., are investigating a number of
computers in the death of a University of North Carolina
medical student. Police believe
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National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is now accepting
travel grant applications for
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SECURITY FLAWS FOUND IN WIRELESS NETWORKS
Copyright 2001 Toronto Star Newspapers, Ltd.
The Toronto Star
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A team of researchers reported security
flaws in the corporate standard for wireless computer networks
that would allow hackers to
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Hackers steal info on Clinton, Gates, others Forum attendees' credit card numbers taken
Copyright 2001 Gannett Company, Inc. USA TODAY
February 6, 2001
Unidentified Web hackers broke into a database maintained by the World Economic Forum,
the group that
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Net Terrorism Trap
By RICHARD SISK Daily News Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON
he Senate plans to push hard to give the FBI tools to "trap and trace" Internet plots
against the U.S. by Osama Bin Laden and other extremists, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)
said
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Congress tackles "cyber menace"
Resolution declares cyberterrorists real, calls for new laws to prosecute them. By
Kevin Poulsen
February 9, 2001 10:11 AM PT
Declaring "cyberterrorism" a growing threat to national security, congressmen James
Saxton
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"Sifting Through the Mac Hard Drive"
Law Enforcement Technology (01/01) Vol. 28, No. 1, P.92
Donofrio, Andrew W.
Macintosh computers have always posed a special problem to
computer forensics specialists, because actual working
experience among the
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BREAKTHROUGH CITED IN WAR AGAINST CHILD PORN
Internet Service Provider Forced to Acknowledge Obligation to Terminate Illegal
Activities Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has secured a guilty plea in a
groundbreaking case against an internet service provider
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Police lack resources for paedophile hunts
By Wendy McAuliffe
Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:02:43 GMT
URL: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2001/6/ns-20981.html
Operation Cathedral has successfully trapped paedophiles across the globe
but it may not happen again
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You, Too, Can Write an Anna Worm
by Michelle Delio
2:00 a.m. Feb. 15, 2001 PST
The Anna Kournikova e-mail worm that whacked networks this week was not the work of a
skilled cracker. It was created using one of the many virus-generating kits that are
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Teenagers questioned in online bank fraud
By Tommy Lewis, February 16, 2001
Commercial crime detectives were on Thursday night questioning two teenagers after
they were arrested on suspicion of carrying out the second reported online banking
fraud in the
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"Underground: Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier"
By Suelette Dreyfus with research by Julian Assange
ISBN 1 86330 595 5
http://www.underground-book.com
This book was published in 1997 in paper form. It's now been released free for
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FBI intervention traps Hong Kong cyber stalker
Copyright 2001 Agence France Presse
A Hong Kong man who obtained the e-mail address of a former school pal, plied her with
streams of obscene e-mails including one which threatened to rape her, a report
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E-crime Punishment;Over the last year, a host of old-fashioned crimes fraud, theft,
and harassment have gone high-tech. A Philadelphia district attorney follows the trail
and finds an innovative way to fight the new cyber crime.
Edward Sherwin, American
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Tracking child porn on the Internet
Copyright 2001 Scripps Howard, Inc.
15 seconds...
That's all it took for St. Paul police Sgt. Brook Schaub to receive child pornography
while visiting a chat room during a training course on investigating computer sex
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Police crack down on Net fraud ring
Hackers tricked PayPal users; bought and sold eBay items
By Bob Sullivan MSNBC
Feb. 20 Federal and New Jersey investigators are in the process of rounding up a
ring of Internet fraudsters, MSNBC.com has learned. The
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E-COPS GO BACK TO SCHOOL
James Rogers
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information Ltd.
Computer Weekly
February 22, 2001
The IT industry is set to forge closer links with the police following the National
Crime Squad's recent European conference on high-tech
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"Funding Crunch Menaces Maine Computer Sleuths"
Government Computer News (02/01) Vol. 7, No. 2, P. 1; Dizard,
Wilson P.
Maine's Computer Crimes Task Force has generated a number of
indictments in the process of many investigations, but a state
budget
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"Cybercrime Flourishes as Law Enforcement Falters"
Cisco World (02/01) Vol. 7, No. 2, P. 10
At a recent Gartner Group's Crime on the Internet Workshop
examining law enforcement efforts to deter cybercrime, it was
found that very little effort is put into
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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41950,00.html
by Declan McCullagh
2:00 a.m. Feb. 22, 2001 PST
WASHINGTON -- Robert Philip Hanssen is not only an accused spy who
federal agents say is responsible for one of the most serious breaches
of national
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Police grab DNA from server thieves
By: Robert Blincoe
Posted: 20/02/2001 at 17:26 GMT
The police have teamed up with forensic scientists to discover ways of grabbing DNA
samples from serious IT hardware blaggers.
The cops are so concerned about the
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FIRST PEER-TO-PEER VIRUS HITS
Posted at February 27, 2001 03:59 PM Pacific
FILE-SWAPPING ON THE Internet hit a sour note Tuesday
with the appearance of a virus that attacks users of
the Gnutella file-sharing service, and
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Australians prosecute hackers as terrorists
By Rachel Lebihan, ZDNet Australia
February 28, 2001 7:49 PM PT
URL: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2691323,00.html
Australians are in favor of the British Government's recent move to broaden the
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68,000 stranded after Telstra email glitch
Telstra Email
Copyright 2001 AAP Information Services Pty. Ltd.
Nationwide General News; Australian General News
SYDNEY, March 1 AAP - Almost 70,000 Telstra customers have been
left stranded in cyberspace
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ShareSniffer is no Napster; it's a hacker
Janet Kornblum Copyright 2001 Gannett Company, Inc.
Watch out. People on the Internet may be trying to break into your computer, looking
for music and movie files. Malicious hackers have long known of ways to
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File-swapping services seek refuge overseas
By Gwendolyn Mariano
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
March 5, 2001, 11:40 a.m. PT
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5025950.html?tag=prntfr
A 21-year-old Canadian said he plans to establish a Napster clone off
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Internet crime sprees getting more costly
By Robert Lemos, ZDNN
March 12, 2001 12:48 PM PT
URL: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2695145,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_rt_latest
Businesses using the Internet are losing more to online vandals and
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Teenager Jailed for Hacking Police Website
18-year-old says he broke into and defaced anti-drug site.
By Reuters
A New Hampshire computer junkie who hacked into a Los Angeles Police Department
anti-drug website last year was
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Computers may reveal secrets behind crimes
By Kathryn Balint March 12, 2001, Monday
As the community groped for answers to the shooting rampage at Santana High School,
investigators in an elite
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