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15 November 1999  New NT Virus
An insidious new NT virus, designed to avoid detection, attacks the NT
file security system, allowing all users access to all files.
http://www.currents.net/newstoday/99/11/15/news2.html

15 November 1999  Government Agencies will Wait to Buy New Hardware and Software
Many government agencies have put a freeze on the purchase of computer
hardware and software until March, 2000, to avoid problems with systems
which may not recognize the year 2000 as a leap year.
http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1999/1115/fcw-newsy2k-11-15-99.html

15 November 1999  Hong Kong Highways Dept. Site Defaced
Hong Kong's Highway department web site was defaced last week, and was
repaired within two hours.  A number of other Asian government sites
have also been attacked recently.
http://www.cnnfn.com/news/technology/newsbytes/139366.html

15 November 1999  Bubbleboy Virus
The Bubbleboy worm infects systems without requiring an attachment to
be opened.  This new technique launches the self-replicating worm when
a user (or certain clients that open mail for, e.g., purposes of alerting
the user) opens the mail message.  Formerly, attacks were launched only
when attachments were opened.  An embedded Virtual Basic Script replicates
by sending itself to the user's entire address book and could tie up a
great deal of time and energy as did Melissa. Otherwise, as currently
implemented, Bubbleboy performs no other attacks. Experts fear that
copycat versions could harbor more destructive payloads.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,1018067,00.html
http://www.computerworld.com/home/news.nsf/all/9911103bubble
http://www.currents.net/newstoday/99/11/15/news3.html

15 November 1999  Banks Encouraged to Define Privacy
The president of the American Bankers Association is calling for financial
institutions to establish strong privacy policies in order to allay
customer concern with the newly enacted Banking Reform Bill which will
ease the way for financial institutions to merge with one another and
increase the likelihood that personal information about customers will
be shared.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/feed/a1260-1999nov15.htm

13 November 1999 Hidden Web-Use Monitoring Tools Subject of FTC Inquiry
Consumer behavior tracking software, buried in web site code, can e
combined with cookies to build extensive dossiers on Web users.  The FTC
is concerned enough to have begun an assessment of their impact on
consumer privacy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/business/A58127-1999Nov12.html

12 November 1999  Chinese Cracker Gets Jail Time
A former employee of a Chinese trust firm will spend three years in jail
for cracking the company's stock trading system and manipulating stock
prices to his advantage.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991112/tc/china_hacker_1.html
http://www.techserver.com/noframes/story/0,2294,500057111-500094072-500360224-0,00.html

12 November 1999 IETF Says No to Wiretap Standard The Internet Engineering
Task Force has rejected the idea of protocols supporting Internet
wiretapping capability, but the FBI believes that the law requires such
capability be built in.  The IETF recognizes that some "protocol features
that fulfill a commercial need" could also be used for wiretapping by law
enforcement agencies.
http://www.computerworld.com/home/news.nsf/all/9911125ietf
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,32455,00.html

12 November 1999 Shanghai Hacker Challenge A Shanghai company challenged
computers crackers to infiltrate their site's security, but all attempts
met with failure.
http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/afp/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/991112/technology/afp/Shanghai_website_challenges_world_s_hackers.and_wins.html

11 November 1999  GUIDs and Privacy
Global Unique Identifiers (GUIDs) in and of themselves are not bad; it's
what's done with them that matters, claim sites that use them.  See also
the 10 November story below about RealNetworks.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,32389,00.html

11 November 1999  Cracking Suit Filed Against Law Firm
A private company that conducts investigative research for law enforcement
has filed a lawsuit in US District Court for the District of Columbia,
alleging that an employee of a Washington law firm tried repeatedly to
crack its computer systems.
http://www.computerworld.com/home/news.nsf/all/9911114hacksuit
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,32488,00.html

11 November 1999  Computer Trouble at Royal Doulton
A computer problem caused Royal Doulton to lose almost $19 million in
sales.  The British company denies newspaper reports that the problem
is Y2K-related.
http://www.computerworld.com/home/news.nsf/all/9911114doulton

9 November 1999  Hotmail Filters E-Mail to Reduce Spam
Hotmail has begun using the Mail Abuse Prevention System's (MAPS) Realtime
Blackhole List (RBL), comprised of servers frequently used by spammers,
to reduce the amount of spam its users receive.
http://news.cnet.com/category/0-1005-200-1433577.html

9 November 1999  House Approves New Digital Signature Bill
The House approved a revamped Digital Signature Bill.  The proposed
legislation faces White House opposition and concern from consumer
advocates regarding the possible erosion of consumer rights.
http://news.cnet.com/category/0-1005-200-1433810.html

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