Hey all, Some news articles i thought might be interesting to the populace. Bit of an update on southern cross (new international connectivity, w00t!) http://www.itnews.com.au/story.cfm?id=3518 Casting update for episode 2 http://www.starwars.com/episode-ii/news/2000/34/news1a.html Nudge from 'Hey Dad!' is in it :) "How crackers could crash the internet" http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/industry/20000822/A17853-2000Aug21.html Panic, blah, misinformation, blah. At least they didn't call them hackers. "Hackers target Olympics" http://www.australianit.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,1104064%255E442,00.html I liked this bit: Senator Alston said security threats such as the Love Bug and the Melissa virus were no more of a problem in Australia than elsewhere. "We had early warning systems in place through our security agencies, and all departments were alerted, very early on," Senator Alston said. I wonder if they had nocol monitoring their mail queues :) Melbourne IT pulls 'spammer' into line http://www.australianit.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,1072570%255E1285,00.html An entrepreneur is using publically available information (aunic's records) to spam people whose .com.au domains are close to renewal and have them renew through them (the third party). Looks like a bit of pre-emptive customer aquisition prior to introduction of new registrars some time next year. -- Alexander Else http://cyberchrist.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
