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The Web pages of three US Government agencies, including NASA's Goddard Flight Center, have been defaced by a cracker who is worried that US government security systems are vulnerable to cyberattack. The front pages of the sites for NASA's Goddard Flight Center international page, the Bureau of Land Management's National Training Center, and the Defense Contracts Audit Agency, on Wednesday were replaced with a page showing a cartoon of…

(IDG) -- After repeated break-ins through the same door, a shaken business owner likely would get the message and buy a sturdy lock, a big dog or a loud alarm. But many agencies have failed to follow such common sense. Repeated intrusions of federal World Wide Web sites reveal that agencies are not adequately training their IT sentries to take advantage of readily available systems…

The Setup What do billions of dollars, billions of useless books, and billions of prophetic statements have in common? If you guessed the infamous Y2K rollover, you are probably one of the millions of people who were informed of some global catastrophe set to take place the first of this year. There was not a paper in publication these last few years that didn't mention…

Dec. 29 (The Dallas Morning News/KRTBN)--While Y2K wary Americans ring in the New Year with champagne and flashlights, computer hackers are set to celebrate with what security experts fear will be an unprecedented assault on computer systems across the globe. The potential assault, as described by hackers and federal law enforcement officials, is likely to include cybermischief as elemental as website defacement or the planting…

10:50 a.m. 9.Feb.2000 PST Hackers, who pride themselves on Web attacks with a purpose, are scornful of the "packet monkeys" responsible for this week's attacks on Yahoo, CNN, and other high-profile sites. The cracker or crackers responsible for the attacks have been contemptuously dubbed "packet monkeys" because their exploits involve flooding a site with packets of information and, detractors say, betray a distinctly simian intelligence.…

NEW YORK — U.S. investigators are focusing on a handful of potential suspects in last week's attacks on major Web sites, Internet security experts and hacker sources familiar with the investigation said on Monday. As experts traced the Web site blitzkrieg to a virulent new software program, Tribal Flood Network, used to break into computer networks, Internet security firms raced to offer updated programs to fend…

A 17-year-old Colorado Springs boy was charged in juvenile court Tuesday with one count each of computer crime and criminal mischief after he broke into the city's Web site in October and replaced it with the message, "i love this city ytcracker 9d9 palmer high." The two felony charges carry a maximum penalty of two years of juvenile detention. The boy, known online as "ytcracker,"…

America Online, Inc. is the latest Net crime victim to have the privacy of some of its 23 million members violated. While the extent of weekend damage is unknown, the knowledge of how to access security holes in America Online's (Quote, Chart) network is spreading quickly through Internet channels. While AOL members are assured at every point of contact that their information is secure from potential maliciousness,…

 The Federal Aviation Administration skips key background checks on workers, leaves open known security holes, doesn’t even use passwords sometimes and has inadequate firewalls, the report says.      The air-traffic control system hasn’t been successfully attacked, but at least one hacker has broken into an FAA e-mail server. And a year after identifying holes in one FAA system, contractors found the agency had not fixed…

A 17-year-old minor residing in Colorado Springs, CO, was charged with violating Colorado State computer crime statutes. The 17-year-old, known throughout the hacker community as "YTCracker" (pronounced "Whitey Cracker"), was charged with one count of computer crime and one count of criminal mischief by compromising and defacing numerous Internet web sites, including DoD web site servers in Boston, MA, and Fort Belvoir, VA. On November…