Net widens Web of intrigue
9/21/99, JENNY SINCLAIR, Fairfax IT. The Web and free hacker's toolkits are fuelling a new generation of computer saboteurs to the point where it's not a matter of if, but when, your site will be attacked, according to a senior analyst from Australia's peak computer defence organisation.
www.it.fairfax.com.au/industry/19990921/A12385-1999Sep20.html

Is your PC cheating on you?
9/30/99, IT-Director. Security news is coming thick and fast. The latest hardware move comes from IBM, offering PCs with built in security hardware. Meanwhile, experts debate the security offered by widely used systems.
www.it-director.com/99-09-30-1.html

Hotmail - free for all, risk for all?
9/27/99, IT-Director. Following the major security threat to Microsoft's free emailing service, Hotmail, at the end of August it seems its problems continue to persist.
www.it-director.com/99-09-27-2.html

Free E-mail Users Find Their Privacy Violated
9/21/99, HIAWATHA BRAY, The Boston Globe. As many as 4 million users of free electronic mail systems may have been vulnerable to a gaping security hole that would let anybody on the Internet read their mail. The incident is the latest example of the risks involved in using free e-mail systems for private communications.
199.97.97.16/contWriter/cnd7/1999/09/21/cndin/9805-0231-pat_nytimes.html

New Weapons for the Fight Against Spam
9/30/99, Jesse Berst, ZDNet AnchorDesk. Stop being a spam victim. Use these free services to get back at spammers.
www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/cgi-bin/print_story.cgi?story=story_3921

Freelancers Win Electronic Copyrights
9/28/99, Kenneth Li, The Industry Standard. In a ruling that grants freelance writers their due and has wide-reaching impact for new media, a federal appellate court yesterday decided that copyright protections extend to electronic databases.
www.thestandard.net/articles/article_print/0,1454,6632,00.html

E-Privacy May Be Up To The Industry
9/23/99, Madeleine Acey, TechWeb. As the rapid adoption of the Internet scares intelligence agencies into stronger efforts to spy on electronic communications, personal privacy will become a matter of social policy. But, ultimately, it will be down to the IT industry and individual users to find new defenses against intrusion, said public key encryption inventor Whit Diffie on Thursday.
www.techweb.com/printableArticle?doc_id=TWB19990923S0013