Re: [ISN] Cyber terrorism not real: Gartner

2003-11-14 Thread InfoSec News
Forwarded from: GertJan Hagenaars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Apparently, InfoSec News wrote: % Forwarded from: Fredrich P. Maney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> % % InfoSec News wrote: % % > http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,248600,20280859,00.htm % > % > The director, Rich Mogull, told journa

RE: [ISN] Microsoft's hacker bounty is wasted money

2003-11-14 Thread InfoSec News
Forwarded from: Peter Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acknowledging Mr Vamosi's constitutional right to free speech, I can but wonder about his views and the agenda he is trying to advocate at a time when criminals are vandalizing millions of computer systems every day for nothing more than the sport of

[ISN] Al-Jazeera hacker sentenced

2003-11-14 Thread InfoSec News
http://news.com.com/2100-7349-5107409.html By Reuters November 13, 2003 A Los Angeles-area man has been fined and sentenced to community service for hacking into the Web site of satellite TV network Al-Jazeera during the U.S.-led war in Iraq and rerouting visitors to a page featuring an American

[ISN] Cracking the hacker underground

2003-11-14 Thread InfoSec News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3246375.stm By Jo Twist BBC News Online technology reporter 14 November, 2003 A simple search reveals a plethora of resources, tools, and personal homepages, most claiming to "hack" for legitimate reasons, within the law. But there is also an entire und

[ISN] Microsoft security document contains insecure comments

2003-11-14 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12667 By Adamson Rust over Rockall Friday 14 November 2003 SOFTWARE PANJANDRUM Microsoft has sent out a document called Secure and Dependable Computing to its customers which still contains internal comments from the Volish people who put the Word files togethe

[ISN] Homeland Security CIO calls for cybersecurity, communications standards

2003-11-14 Thread InfoSec News
Forwarded from: William Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,87098,00.html Story by Lucas Mearian NOVEMBER 13, 2003 COMPUTERWORLD COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Steven Cooper, the new CIO at the Department of Homeland Security, said he has had "som