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DVD-hacking teen pleads innocent

OSLO.Norwegian teenager Jon Lech Johansen pleaded innocent yesterday to breaking data security laws in the first day of a widely watched trial over a program that unlocks the security codes of DVDs.
Johansen was 15 when he wrote and distributed for free on the Internet a program that unlocks copy-protected DVDs, giving Hollywood nightmares and making him a folk hero among hackers.

Should you spy on your employees?

According to an American Management Association report, 78 percent of major U.S. firms record and review employee communications and activities, including phone calls, e-mail, Internet activity, and computer files (this number is double what it was in 1997). Twenty-two percent of the companies that engage in these activities don't tell their employees they are doing so. While the 78 percent of companies that monitor employees may be a surprising number to many folks, what should be of bigger interest is the 22 percent of companies that do not notify employees of corporate monitoring.

FBI: Hacker stole 80,000 credit cards

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli police, aided by the FBI, arrested an Israeli suspected of hacking into computers of a U.S.-based electronics company and stealing personal information, including the credit card numbers of some 80,000 customers, according to court document released Sunday.

ActiveX – Is it worth the risk?

Turn off all ActiveX support (download & scripting) in your browser on the Internet security zone and see if it...

Europe stumbles on Echelon spy network

Nearly seven months after the European Parliament adopted a report that recognised the existence of Echelon, an international spy system...

Yahoo admits rewriting members’ e-mail

Palo Alto, Calif. . If you ever used Yahoo! mail to ask a potential employer to “evaluate” your resum�, you...

PowerLabs RailGun Project

Ever wanted to make a Railgun? “The primary objective of this project is to successfully design and construct a linear...

Extracting Flash Capacitors from Disposable Cameras

A friend sent me this link. Apparently it’s useful for those who wish to build railguns or something: “There are...

Microsoft’s Hacker Heaven

Smarty-pants Bill Gates has a new security problem on his hands. A new flaw was discovered in Microsoft Internet Explorer,...