contributed by Space Rogue
A study commissioned by DOD raises questions about whether the US should pursue offensive strategies in cyber space to attack the infrastructures of opposing forces. Some feel that pursuing an offensive strategy such as this may open the door to possible coordinated and sophisticated attacks by other countries. The report states that the development of Offensive Information Warfare capabilities may create a situation similar to those present by nuclear, chemical and biological weapons today.

Federal Computer Week

contributed by Digital Ebola
The Legions of the Underground released a statement today concerning their War on China and Iraq. They claim that all they wanted to do was send a message to both countries using their talents and that they never had destructive intentions. This is contrary to what was said during an IRC press conference last week where they called for the destruction of all computer systems in both countries. LoU also blames the media for letting this get out of hand. The statement claims that they have not enlisted the help of any other groups but appreciate their support.

HNN Archive for December 29, 1998 - LoU's Declaration of War
LoU Statement
Legion of the Underground
spl0it - Assisting LoU
Polish group - Assisting LoU (was down this morning)

contributed by Anonymous
A lot of news sites are reporting about a new virus that could wipe all your data or secretly send it to someone else on the internet. This new virus, dubbed the 'Russian New Year Virus' exploits a security hole in Excel that has been known about since last month and for which MS has already issued a patch. There are no known confirmed incidents of this virus attacking anyone and no one has yet seen this virus in the wild. Does this Virus exists or is it a publicity stunt by the Israeli security company that claimed to have discovered it?

ZD Net

contributed by Anonymous
In conjunction with MacWorld in San Francisco this week the web sites of Mac World and Mac Week where cracked by a Swedish group calling themselves Cyber Thugs.

SF Works- Archive of Cracked Pages
Wired

contributed by Space Rogue
Microsoft's Hotmail service is now offering free virus scans of email attachments. Network Associates Inc's McAfee VirusScan will be offered to Hotmails estimated 30 million users. This reverses an earlier decision to charge $2 a month for the service.

Internet News

contributed byarchive
Xoom does not support free speech
Evidently the EUA is being kicked off from its web hoster XOOM for a violation of XOOMs policy which states "We want to be completely honest about our policy. XOOM.com values freedom of expression on our site but we do not guarantee the right to free speech. XOOM.com is the final arbiter of what IS and IS NOT allowed on our site." A very hypocritical statement, they value freedom of expression but then boot their customers who express themselves. EUA will be moving their site.

EUA - new site will be up soon.