* cybercrime-alerts * Macromedia: Flash is secure

2001-01-09 Thread cybercrime-alerts
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 d

* cybercrime-alerts * THE HACKER CRACKDOWN..

2001-01-09 Thread cybercrime-alerts
Literary Freeware: Not for Commercial Use THE HACKER CRACKDOWN Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling the entire publication is here http://www.insecure.org/stf/hacker_crackdown.txt ^IF this was forwarded to you and you want your own subscription go to htt

* cybercrime-alerts * Hacker shuts down chat network IRC threatened by Romanian

2001-01-09 Thread cybercrime-alerts
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 13:17:44 -0800 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Topica-Loop: 1700021638 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: (qmail 6392 invoked by alias); 9 Jan 2001 21:17:39 - Received: (qmail 6378 invoked by uid 0); 9 Jan 2001 21:17:38 - Receive

* cybercrime-alerts * FBI Plan: Cybercrime Info Sharing

2001-01-09 Thread cybercrime-alerts
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

* cybercrime-alerts * Hack attacks hit home

2001-01-09 Thread cybercrime-alerts
* subscribe at http://techPolice.com 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 th