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<p>PALM BEACH, Florida -- A new computer chip promises to keep police guns from firing if they fall into the wrong hands.</p> <p>The tiny chip would be implanted in a police officer's hand and would match up with a scanning device inside a handgun. If the officer and gun match, a digital signal unlocks the trigger so it can be fired. But if a child or criminal would get hold of the gun, it would be useless.</p>

I hadn’t heard anything via the news today, but the DIS (Department of Information Services) the department responsible for upkeep of the state’s computer systems (Government, Schools, etc.) instructed all schools statewide that all computers, including workstations, servers, etc. MUST be shut down at the end of the school day today (Friday 4/16/2004). This is to apply to ALL computers tied in with the state network. The reason? An unmanageable number of viruses and an attack by hackers (probably allowed in via the email worms infecting the system). The network is suppose to be completely down through 8:00 AM Monday...

<p>The author of a new book detailing a plan to use a Trojan horse embedded in stolen software to wage economic war against the Soviet Union fired back Thursday at charges the book's revelations are "rubbish."</p> <p>Thomas C. Reed, a former secretary of the Air Force and special assistant to President Reagan, detailed the stunning story in At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War.</p>

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — Air Force computer gurus are entrenched in a cyber war against themselves. Just as Air Force pilots fly mock dogfights during their exercises, so too do network security experts battle imaginary foes to train for the real world. This week, nine Air Force major commands and two Air Force agencies are engaged in Exercise Black Demon to root out insidious computer hackers who would seek to destroy the Air Force’s operations with but a few keystrokes. “Just like our pilots and air crews want to gain air and space superiority, we want to gain network...

Hackers are preparing to launch a massive attack on millions of home PC users, experts have warned. They believe the current explosion in the number of email viruses - including MyDoom, netsky and bagle - is laying the groundwork for a systematic attack. The experts suspect that organised crime syndicates could be involved. Millions of computers across the world have been infected by one of the unprecedented number of viruses circulating. Some viruses have been designed so that when they infect a computer, they install an "electronic backdoor". This can be used later to hack into the infected computer and...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Hackers broke into a state agency's server containing the sensitive personal information of tens of thousands of people who work as nannies, butlers, and gardeners, and those who employ them. Evidence of a computer break-in at the Employment Development Department was discovered Jan. 20 during a routine check and immediately shut down the server that holds information on household workers and their employers, spokesman Kevin Callori said Friday. The server houses information on about 90,000 people. The hackers gained access to employee's names, Social Security numbers and wage records, and some employers' Social Security numbers, Callori...

PeterHammer writes "Neowin.net is reporting that Windows 2000 and Windows NT source code has been leaked to the internet. More on this as we hear it."

A British teenager has narrowly escaped jail after sparking a nuclear panic by hacking into a top secret United States weapons laboratory. Joseph McElroy, 18, who on Monday was ordered to serve a 200-hour community punishment order, bypassed the facility's electronic security systems with sophisticated software he had developed and nicknamed Deathserv. McElroy wanted to use the advanced network's power to download and store films and music from the internet. London's Southwark Crown Court heard that in June 2002, he used a special password to protect his collection and cover up his "parasitic" invasion. But so many of his fellow...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Uproar about a 'virus-writing' class at the University of Calgary, Canada has caused speculation regarding its educational value in the computer science and engineering department here at Penn State. Some professors have different views on whether offering a course that included instruction on how to write virus code could be beneficial to computer security. "The University of Calgary had the right to do so in interest of academic freedom," John Domico, assistant director of information technology, said. Some faculty members in the department don't think teaching students how to write viruses...

Identity Theft Alert Below is a copy and paste of an email I received today. It is not really from the FDIC. The link which appears as "http://www.fdic.gov/idverify/cgi-bini/index.htm" actually takes you to "http://www.fdic.gov@211.75.215.137:3180/index.htm" instead. This is an increasingly common ploy to socially engineer people into giving up personal information, including access to their personal bank accounts. If you get an email like this this, do not follow the instructions! It's bogus! The sender's return address is "FDIC as Carolina_Sika@hotmail.com" Here it is: Subject: Important News About Your Bank Account To whom it may concern; In cooperation with the Department Of...

Satanists hack 46664 site December 12 2003 at 09:56PM The Independent On Saturday Nelson Mandela's 46664 Aids awareness campaign is synonymous with good intentions and positive messages. But web users eager to give a minute of their time to the fight against Aids may be in for a nasty surprise when they hit the site and antichrist symbols and degrading images of Christ appear. When a Cape Town web user, who did not want to be named, logged on to the site earlier this week to find out why the official 46664 T-shirts were sold only in the United Kingdom,...

The website of the .name registry was hacked over the weekend through an Apache exploit. London-based Global Name Registry was updating its Apache and PHP system when hackers SUr00tIK & GroMx broke into the system and replaced the frontpage index file. The hackers didn’t manage to access the system and no data was lost, GNR’s president Hakon Haugnes told us, but the hack did some cause some embarrassment. The site was taken offline and was back up by Sunday with added security. “We were adding patches but in spite of that someone managed to get to the index file,” said...

Microsoft will announce on Wednesday that it will offer two $250,000 bounties for information that leads to the arrest of the people who released the MSBlast worm and the SoBig virus, CNET News.com has learned. The two programs attacked computers that run Microsoft's Windows operating system, causing havoc among companies and home users in August and September. The reward, confirmed by sources in both the security industry and in law enforcement, will be announced in a joint press conference with the FBI, the U.S. Secret Service and Interpol that's scheduled for 10 a.m. EST Wednesday. The rewards are the first...

Major headline on Drudge claims that hackers altered DJIA on major web sites. My Dad called me after making the same observation on several websites. It appeared that the DJIA was in the 8400 range and had dropped roughly 1200 points. The incorrect value appeared on the CNBC website, Quicken.com, and on MSNBC's site. The value has been corrected. Were hackers responsible for this? Is there some political motive here?

<p>NEW YORK (AP) -- Attacks on computer systems by virus writers and hackers continued to rise during the first half of the year, the Internet-security firm Symantec Corp. said this week.</p> <p>Attacks by automated programs that spread like viruses and worms to exploit software flaws rose 20 percent in the first half of 2003 compared with the previous six-month period.</p>

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Three Web sites that provide spam blocking lists have shut down as a result of crippling Internet attacks in what experts on Thursday said is an escalation in the war between spammers and opponents of unsolicited e-mails. Anti-spam experts said that they think spammers are behind the attacks, although they have no way of proving it. The technological war comes as Congress considers a federal anti-spam law and California adopts what is widely considered to be the toughest law in the country. The California law, signed on Tuesday, allows people to sue spammers for $1,000 per...

Hacker Adrian Lamo, 22, surrendered to federal authorities in California on Tuesday to face charges stemming from his alleged breach of the New York Times network in February 2002. Patty Pontello, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office, confirmed that Lamo surrendered to the U.S. Marshall's Service at federal court in Sacramento. Lamo was booked and is scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Gregory Hollows Tuesday afternoon, Pontello said. Pontello expects Lamo will be sent to New York to face the charges against him. Lamo became famous following his widely publicized hacks into corporations such as Yahoo, WorldCom, ExciteAtHome,...

Security Watch : Don't get burned by viruses and hackers. With a publicly available search engine, a few well-chosen e-mail addresses, and off-the-shelf viral code, anyone can commit an act of cyberterrorism--or so says Roelof Temmingh, technical director of SensePost, a South African computer security company. Speaking at the recent Black Hat Briefings and Defcon 11 conferences, Temmingh explained that the current methods of assailing computer networks--denial-of-service attacks (DoS) or remote break-ins--inconvenience too few people to really affect a nation's information infrastructure. The sort of exploit that could really hurt a country, Temmingh suggests, would more likely be based on...

Is drudge down for anybody else? This line is all I get: drudgereport.comÀº ÆÄÅ· ¶Ç´Â Æ÷¿öµù ¼­ºñ½º¿¡ µî·ÏµÇÁö¾ÊÀº µµ¸ÞÀÎÀÔ´Ï´Ù. It may be chinese. An hour or so, ago, FR went down, with the 404 message from a Chinese server: http://www.rgnames.com/RGNames_PopUp3.html Is this just ME, or locally, or have others had the same problem?? DG