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Newsbytes Security Week In Review

Here is this week's Newsbytes Security Week in Review, a Friday feature of Newsbytes, a Washington Post Company publication. These were our top security-related stories on computer crime, law, intrusions, encryption and privacy this week:

Some Glitches Reported As At Home Pulls Plug

Some Comcast Cable broadband customers had difficulty getting e-mail as At Home Corp. prepared to turn off its high-speed Internet network last night, leaving Comcast on its own to serve its 1 million Internet service users. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174872.html

Defunct Industry Standard Magazine Lives On In Spam

Subscribers to The Industry Standard haven't received the new-economy magazine for months since it shut down last August. But they could be getting junk e-mail and other solicitations as a result of their subscription for years to come, thanks to AOL's Time unit. Time has apparently begun renting the magazine's subscriber list, which it reportedly picked up for $500,000 at a bankruptcy auction last September. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174863.html

Entertainment, Tech Execs Square Off Over Piracy

Executives from the entertainment and high-tech industries locked horns before a congressional panel, over who should be responsible for preventing digital piracy. Walt Disney Co. Chairman Michael Eisner and Intel Corp Executive Vice President Leslie Vadasz openly grilled one another throughout their appearance at the Senate Commerce Committee hearing on copyright protection. Commerce Committee Chairman Hollings called the hearing to discuss the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act, an electronic copyright measure that he proposed. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174859.html

Hong Kong Govt. Awards 'Smart' National ID Card Contract

The Hong Kong government has appointed a consortium to deliver "smart" identity cards that will replace existing national IDs held by all Hong Kong residents. The $21 million contract was awarded to an international group of companies led by the e-business arm of Hong Kong phone and Internet company Pacific Century CyberWorks. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174837.html

Justice Wants More Electronic Surveillance Funding - Report

A good portion of the $1.8 billion increase that the Justice Department is requesting in its 2003 budget will be devoted to funding new surveillance and electronic security programs, according to EPIC's new report "Paying For Big Brother: A Review of the Proposed FY2003 Budget for the Department of Justice." http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174833.html

FTC Settles With Two Sites Selling Bioterrorism Products

As part of its ongoing crusade to purge the Internet of fraudulent Sept. 11 profiteers, the Federal Trade Commission said has settled a claim against a Web site that marketed its "colloidal silver" product as a cure for anthrax. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174823.html

Warez 'Ringleader' Pleads Guilty In Software Piracy Case

Federal law enforcement officials said that an international sweep of groups trading in copyrighted software online has netted its first guilty plea - from a man they say was a ringleader in one of the Internet's oldest "warez" organizations. Investigators said members of the group would crack copyright-protection schemes before posting software on secret Internet servers so that others could install the illegal downloads. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174822.html

Group Asks Court To Overturn Web Posting Ruling

The Electronic Frontier Foundation asked a California appeals court to overturn a lower court's ruling that a drug company shareholder who posted critical comments about the company on an online message board was not protected under a California law aimed at halting malicious prosecutions. San Francisco-based EFF filed a "friend of the court" brief in the appeal of Michael Wells, who is requesting that lawsuit filed against him by Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals be dismissed under California's Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation Statute. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174821.html

Webmasters Urged To Plug PHP Security Hole

Web site operators who use server-side scripting software known as PHP are being urged to upgrade to a new release that does not contain recently discovered - and apparently serious - security holes. E-matters, a Web development company, reported that a number of memory-allocation bugs were found in PHP code that handles file uploads, also known as multipart/form-data Post requests. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174818.html

Gun Owners Rally Around Man Denied Computer By Dell - Update

Some gun owners are outraged over Dell Computer's initial refusal to sell a notebook computer to a Pennsylvania man because his company deals in combat handguns. According to Jack Weigand, his Feb. 13 telephone order for a Dell Inspiron notebook PC was automatically canceled days later by the computer maker's export department because his company's name, Weigand Combat Handguns Inc., raised a red flag. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174830.html

NY Times Intranet, Source Database Hacked

The New York Times' corporate Intranet and Web-based applications that handle everything from payroll accounts to the newsroom's source database were penetrated by a freelance security researcher this week using nothing more than a Web browser, Newsbytes has learned. The discovery was made by 21-year-old Adrian Lamo, a white-hat hacker known for tracking down and alerting Fortune 500 companies that employ lackluster or non-existent security measures on their Web sites. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174808.html

War On Terror Changes Focus For Govt. IT Managers - Study

The U.S. government's so-called war on terror has prompted a new focus for federal chief information officers, according to a new study by the Information Technology Association of America. The ITAA study said the focus for federal CIOs before Sept. 11 was on implementing the Bush administration's "Quicksilver" plan to design and approve e-government projects to improve the way government works with citizens. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174793.html

House Subcommittee OKs Cybersecurity Bill

A House subcommittee approved a bill that changes the way judges would sentence people convicted of many crimes committed online. The House Judiciary Subcommittee On Crime approved in a voice vote H.R. 3482, the Cyber Security Enhancement Act, which requires the U.S. Sentencing Commission to consider a number of new aspects of online crime in coming up with sentencing recommendations in criminal cases. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174791.html

Biometrics Not Enough To Combat Identity Fraud - Study

Biometrics and other technologies being crafted to combat identity fraud may not be completely effective unless verifiers are asked to provide information about something only they would know, such as an old phone number or a former address, according to a white paper released by Lexis-Nexis. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174790.html

Suit Says AOL Users Were Charged For Phantom Purchases

The attorney who is suing America Online on behalf of AOL customers, who claim to have been charged for purchases that they did not approve, said that the unauthorized charges are not a fluke, but stem from an endemic problem with the Internet giant's pop-up advertisements. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174787.html

Another Security Hole Found In Macromedia Flash

A new technique for embedding malicious code in Flash files has been discovered, prompting Macromedia to patch its standalone Flash player. Using an undocumented feature in the Flash 5 authoring tool, a Macromedia customer found it was possible to create a "Trojaned" Flash movie that, when viewed using the standalone Flash player, would place a malicious script on the viewer's computer. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174783.html

Microsoft Patches IE But Leaves PopUp Attack For Later

Microsoft issued another set of patches to correct two "critical" security flaws in its Internet Explorer browser. But the company has yet to wall off a month-old attack that can launch programs on the computers of IE 6 users. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174723.html

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