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.....