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What do you do for an encore if you're Ray Ozzie (aka the inventor and head developer of Lotus Notes)? Start a new Internet company, of course. While we don't normally report on product demos, Ozzie's Groove Networks aims to bring Net-based collaboration to the masses, with support for anonymized identities, secure real-time chat, and full 128-bit encryption for all session data. Groovy, baby.
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A flaw in four Norwegian banks exposed the account information of a reported one million customers for close to two months. Although it appears the flaw allowed an infiltrator to review account activity, it did not allow for the manipulation of money in any of the endangered accounts. This is just another in a long string of online banks to suffer a security crisis whose origin was brought to their attention by an outside source.
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Japan is considering the idea of creating and eventually using "cyber weapons" as a way to protect the country from cyber attacks. This is thought to be a bold move on Japan's part, considering the implications such a development would have on the country's global relations were an attack to occur and Japan was put in the position to retaliate.
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A flaw in Extropia's e-commerce software left Earthlink open to a directory traversal vulnerability. Combined with an unprotected password file, Earthlink servers were at risk for nearly a week after the flaw had been publicized on Bugtraq. As many as 81,000 accounts were subject to attack during the time the servers were open to infiltration.
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Due to the positively pathetic state of security at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as reported by the General Accounting Office, the proverbial you know what has hit the fan. Testifying in front of the House Science Committee last week, FAA's Jane Garvey said she was not aware of the FAA's security woes until the GAO issued its report. Yeah, right.
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Inside.com is reporting that Salon jumped the gun when it reported that SDMI had been cracked. I think this is fascinating. There's obviously a faction within SDMI that doesn't want this thing to fly. (I say this because I'm assuming Salon's 'anonymous' tipster must have been someone within the working group.)
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Someone using the handle "Bulgarianboy" gained control of Eagle Network and demanded the ISP remove the antiwar.com website from their service. To show he/she meant business the system hijacker compromised the company's system for the better part of two weeks, a move resulting in $18,000 in damage. Antiwar.com moved to a different ISP as a result of the attack.
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A Chinese computer security company has discovered a problem with has existed in Windows for 5 years. Security-by-obscurity can last quite a while. The problem is you don't need to know the password to connect to Windows file shares if "share level" passwords are used. This means that all the Windows users on the internet that are sharing files with "share level" passwords are vulnerable. NT and Windows 2000 do not have the problem.
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More and more Eastern Europeans are becoming part of the online tidal wave. The number of computer crimes originating from St. Petersburg is likely to skyrocket as users become better acquainted with computer systems. Software traded freely among some members of the Internet community has caused concern according to a story from The Moscow Times .
