[ISN] Hacker Pleads Guilty To Accessing NASA System

2002-05-02 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176281.html By Wilson P Dizard III, GCN WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 01 May 2002, 2:13 PM CST A hacker charged last year with breaking into a NASA server has pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in San Antonio to one count of intentionally accessing a federal

[ISN] MoD breaks ranks on custom firewall

2002-05-02 Thread InfoSec News
http://networknews.vnunet.com/News/1131396 By Paul Allen [01-05-2002] Rising technology overhead drives MoD to adopt commercial firewalls The Ministry of Defence's security technology advisors have changed their approach to its firewall policy. David Hartley, unclassified network manager at

[ISN] Hackers spur shutdown of computer server for Navy

2002-05-02 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.uniontrib.com/news/business/20020501-_1b1spawar.html By Bruce V. Bigelow UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER May 1, 2002 A defense contractor developing a public Web site for the Navy shut down a key computer network this week after hackers gained access to employee passwords and