July 28, 2005
Daily ePolitics Buzz Brief
Hacking in the Headlines: This week, Internet news seemed to be dominated by hacking and other security issues. Here are just today's headlines:
Hacking Becomes Organised Crime
States Fear Cyberspace Invaders
'Pentagon Hacker' Fights Extradition
'Pentagon Hacker' McKinnon Fights Extradition (The Register): A Briton accused of hacking into numerous Pentagon and NASA computers began his fight against extradition today.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/27/mckinnon_extradition_hearing_begins/
Hacking Becomes Organised Crime (ITweb): Web-based hacking is increasingly evolving into a form of organised crime, as hackers target organisations with the aim of blackmail and extorting money. http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/internet/2005/0507281102.asp?A=LEG&S=Legal%20View&O=E&CiRestriction=
States Fear Cyberspace Invaders (Stateline): Security breaches are a scary possibility for state governments, which stand to lose far more than a $70 pinch. An identity thief can sneak in and pilfer millions of Social Security numbers. A well-timed virus can be equally devastating, knocking out government computers during a hurricane, or stalling networks during a heated statehouse debate.
http://www.stateline.org/live/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=136&languageId=1&contentId=44488
More (good) news:
UF Joins First Few, Podcasts University News (Tallahassee Democrat) The University of Florida, wanting to reach the rapidly growing number of people using MP3 players such as Apple Computer's popular iPod, has begun offering podcasts on the university's news Web site. http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/12230945.htm
Mothers Of Deployed Marines Bond Online (MSNBC) They look like any group of real close friends, yapping it up over dinner, or gathering in a barn over the haul from their latest run to Wal-Mart. But they've only been the very closest of friends since they met on a Web site, started by Tracy Della Vecchia from Missouri, called MarineParents.com.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8729098/
Broadband For The Poorest Of The Poor (ITweb) Rolling out broadband using wireless technologies means that it is always economically justifiable, says Daniel Aghion, executive director of The Wireless Internet Institute (W2I). http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/telecoms/2005/0507281103.asp?A=AFN&S=All%20Africa%20News&O=E&CiRestriction=
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