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July 10th 2003

SECURITY 
We've found the perfect solution to spam. Extraordinary solution http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/31638.html


July 9th 2003


SECURITY 
ZoneAlarm quiets bells. Freeware patch. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/31605.html

CYBERCRIME-HACKING 
Web Site Defacement Winner Announced 
Source: EWeek.com 
Last weekend's highly-publicized "hacking contest" has a winner. Perfect.br, a well-known Brazilian hacking group was awarded 152 points, while its nearest competitor could amass only 62 points. The contest awarded points for each website defacement, with sites running on less popular operating systems counting for more points. However, the biggest news of the contest was that the designated scorekeeper, a website defacement monitor, Zone-H.org, was itself hacked. A group claimed responsibility for the hack in a note posted on SecurityNewsPortal.com. Zone-H.org was hit with a distributed denial of service that lasted many hours Sunday, leaving the site completely unreachable. 
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1186551,00.asp

VULNERABILITY
Study: WiFi users still don't encrypt 
Source: Security Focus 
Security vendor, AirDefense, discovered that the majority of Wi-Fi users are checking their email through unencrypted POP connections. AirDefense experimented by setting up two of its commercial "AirDefense Guard" sensors at opposite corners of a room in the Boston World Trade Center, the site of the 802.11 Planet Expo conference. For two days, the company analyzed the traffic flowing between conference-goers and 141 unencrypted access points set up by the conference for public use, and by vendors on the floor. As a sponsor and the "official security provider" at the conference, AirDefense posted signs informing the public that AirDefense was monitoring all conference traffic. Eighty-eight percent of the email downloads were unencrypted and could easily be intercepted by eavesdroppers using commonly-available tools, compromising both the e-mail and the user's passwords.
 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/6290