September 8, 1999 A 19-year-old computer hacker with the screen name "Zyklon" pleaded guilty Tuesday to attacks involving Web pages for NATO, Vice President Al Gore and the United States Information Agency, prosecutors said. http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/057862.htm http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/99/135956.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Doing it to ourselves first: A group of prominent politicians and Internet industry heavyweights are meeting in Munich Thursday through Saturday to discuss proposals to help protect minors from harmful online content. The summit is intended partly to preempt government legislation in this area by having industry come up with self-regulatory guidelines. http://www.industrystandard.net/articles/display/0,1449,6221,00.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Leaked e-mail shows Colombo lacks Net laws An ISP voices the hope that the authorities would enact laws to restore public confidence in the Net An e-mail scandal has erupted into a sensitive political issue in Sri Lanka, after a minister read out in Cabinet an e-mail meant for a former Prime Minister. http://web3.asia1.com.sg/archive/st/1/cyb/cyb1_0906.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hackers put racist, anti-government slogans on embassy site Hackers hit a Web site for the U.S. embassy in China Tuesday, replacing its home page with racist and anti-government statements. http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/07/embassy.hack/index.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Global Hell Bankrolled? Last year, AntiOnline did an extensive report about a man known as "Khalid Ibrahim", who purported to be a terrorist-like-agent living in New Delhi, India. Khalid had sent "Chameleon", a hacker based in California, $1,000 in exchange for what the hacker claimed were maps of SiprNet, the US's classified military network (although chameleon admits to taking the money, he asserts that he then stiffed Khalid by not handing over the maps). http://www.antionline.com/cgi-bin/News?type=antionline&date=09-06-1999&story=paygh.news - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Nationalist is new scots leader, but only on Web Hackers calling themselves the ''Hardcore Highland Haxxors'' vandalized the Web site of Scotland's regional government, replacing a picture of First Minister Donald Dewar with that of nationalist leader Alex Salmond. http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/internet/docs/829550l.htm - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Govt Addresses Cyber Terrorist Threats The Philippine government is taking cyber terrorism seriously and is talking with global security "solutions" vendors about possible network security projects for its information technology (IT) initiatives. http://www.currents.net/newstoday/99/09/08/news12.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - New Zealand To Update Laws To Punish Computer Crimes The New Zealand Government has introduced legislation into Parliament that, if passed, will outlaw the criminal use of computers and physical or other damage to computer systems. http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/99/135933.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - German hackers demand companies confess security holes A prominent German hacker group has weighed in on the reported security hole in Microsoft Corp.'s software security system, demanding that legislators require companies to reveal to users any "backdoors" in its software which allows third parties access to data. The Chaos Computer Club (CCC), in a statement issued last Friday, also called for a European open-source software initiative which would work to make sure such backdoors are not created.