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RAIN 8/30: Joltin' Joe, Poachware, computer security



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Janesville Gazette 8/29/01
Bill would make it illegal to place people in 'false light'
http://www.gazetteextra.com/falselight082901.html

by Sarah Wyatt
AP
MADISON, Wis. -- Using technology to play offensive pranks on someone by
putting them in a "false light" would be illegal under a bill considered
Tuesday by a legislative privacy committee.
The bill, discussed at a public hearing of the Assembly Personal Privacy
Committee, would make people liable for actions like putting one person's
face on someone else's body in a photograph, if the person portrayed found
it "highly offensive."


Business Week 8/29/01
Digital trail leads to accused spy
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2001/tc20010829_039.htm

by Kevin Poulsen
The FBI investigation that lead to last week's arrest of a former Air Force
sergeant on espionage charges had more in common with a modern Internet
hacker hunt than a John le Carre novel, court records show.
Brian P. Regan, 38, was arrested Thursday at Washington Dulles International
Airport while boarding a Lufthansa flight to Zurich, Switzerland. He's
charged with conspiracy to commit espionage for allegedly passing classified
satellite photos and secret documents to an unnamed foreign government,
called 'County A' in court filings, identified in a Washington Post report
as Libya.


Washington Post 8/29/01
Don't get mat at SirCam, Get even
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/169522.html

by Brian McWilliams
Newsbytes
Givat Shmuel
A new tool offers relief for computer users still plagued by e-mails
infected with the file-stealing SirCam worm - or who have voyeuristic
tendencies.
ClipSirc is a tiny DOS utility that automatically dissects the data files
that come attached to messages generated by SirCam. Developed by Israeli
anti-virus vendor Invircible, the free tool strips the worm's installation
code from the legitimate document it uses as a Trojan horse.



Florida Today 8/29/01
Brevard commissioners want animal shelter to keep better records
http://www.floridatoday.com/news/local/stories/2001/aug/loc082901i.htm

by Jeff Schweers
VIERA, Fla. - An embattled Clara Gunde defended the way she's been running
the South Brevard Animal Shelter before the County Commission Tuesday,
denying reports that she allowed animals to be mistreated. "I'm up here to
assure you that some of these allegations simply are not true," the director
of the Central Brevard Humane Society said during a 90-minute debate over
terms of the new contract the county has proposed for her. The contract is
up for renewal Sept. 30.



Associated Press 8/28/01
Greek church in ID card hassle
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010828/wl/greece_identity_crisis_1.html

by Patrick Quinn
AP
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - The powerful Greek Orthodox Church on Tuesday demanded
a nationwide referendum be held on the government's decision to strip
religion from state identity cards.
Church leader Archbishop Christodoulos released the final tally of a
yearlong petition drive against the decision - more than 3 million
signatures, or 27 percent of Greece's population.



Associated Press 8/28/01
Iceland reassures on privacy
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010828/hl/iceland_genes_1.html

by Richard Middleton
AP
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) - Iceland's medical association and the biotech
company deCODE have issued a statement designed to ease concerns about the
confidentiality of the population's medical records.
DeCODE, a private company involved in genetic research, has been granted
access to the medical records of Iceland's 277,000 people. The population is
believed to be very homogeneous genetically, which should make it easier to
narrow down the search for genes that cause disease.



The Kentucky Post 8/28/01
Editorial: A lesson for government
http://www.kypost.com/2001/aug/29/kedit082901.html

Thanks go out to Assistant Attorney General Amye Bensenhaver for her help in
the continuing education of Kenton County officials about the state's Open
Records Law.
Ms. Bensenhaver, in an opinion released Monday, told the county it was wrong
last month when it failed to provide a citizen with the public records he
had requested within the time frame allowed under the law.



KGW.com 8/28/01
Computer security lagging at biggest state agency
http://www.kgw.com/kgwnews/oregonwash_story.html?StoryID=25650

by Charles Beggs
AP
Lax computer security at the state of Oregon's main social aid agency
allowed confidential client information to end up on the Internet, state
auditors said in a report released Tuesday.
Lack of safeguards over workers' access to Department of Human Services data
also played a part in the losses of $200,000 to employee theft since 1995,
auditors said.



Reuters 8/28/01
Mexican art patron wants last word on Rivera
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010827/lf/mexico_olmedo_dc_1.html

by Sam Dagher
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Dolores Olmedo's obsession with Mexico's famed
muralist Diego Rivera began when he sketched her nude at the age of 12.
Now in her 90s, Olmedo owns much of the artist's work and, as president of
his trust, she is eager to shape how history remembers both Rivera and Frida
Kahlo, the iconic painter who was his wife for many years.
Olmedo's powerful personality and influence over a large part of Rivera's
legacy has alienated a number of Mexican art historians and scholars, some
of whom have even accused her of marginalizing Kahlo's talent out of
jealousy because it was Kahlo whom Rivera married.



Profile: John Concannon
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/ny-nyprofil2341488aug29.story?coll=
ny%2Dnews%2Dprint

by Sheila McKenna
ROLE

Historian and archivist for the New York State Ancient Order of Hibernians;
recipient of the Thomas P. Cuite Award for service to the Irish community at
the Great Annual Fair on Sept. 8; an authority on New York City's St.
Patrick's Day Parade, serves as public relations director; assistant editor
of National Hibernian Digest; member and past president of Galway Men's
Association of New York; member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick.



New York Daily News 8/28/01
DiMaggio document has some skeptics
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/krnewyork/20010828/lo/dimaggio_document_has_som
e_skeptics_1.html

by Luke Cyphers
The authenticity of a notarized letter supposedly signed by a dying Joe
DiMaggio concerning a deal to sell baseballs he was to autograph has been
called into question by an alleged witness to the document.
Morris Engelberg, the late Yankee Clipper's controversial lawyer and trustee
of his estate, has used the document to defend himself against accusations
that he tried to bilk DiMaggio in the baseball legend's final months.



New York Times 8/29/01
Court: Firestone papers stay sealed
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Firestone-Media-Plea.html?search
pv=aponline

AP
ATLANTA (AP) -- A federal appeals court has overruled a judge's decision to
unseal documents in a wrongful death lawsuit against Bridgestone/Firestone
Inc.
A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals returned the
case on Tuesday to U.S. District Judge Anthony Alaimo. Alaimo must determine
whether the sealed documents contain trade secrets as Firestone claimed, and
if so, whether their disclosure serves the public interest.



New York Times 8/29/01
Justice Department, in rare move, obtains a reporter's phone records
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/29/nyregion/29REPO.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Felicity Barringer
The Justice Department, apparently ignoring 21-year-old internal guidelines
that have virtually eliminated federal subpoenas of reporters' phone
records, has obtained the home telephone records of an Associated Press
reporter covering the federal investigation of Senator Robert G. Torricelli,
Democrat of New Jersey.


New York Times 8/29/01
Museum helps Jewish family Regain relic Nazis stole
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/29/arts/design/29PLAT.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Celestine Bohlen
Last fall Dr. Bernhard Purin, director of the Jewish Museum of Franconia in
Fürth, Germany, began an Internet search for descendents of Siegmund
Dottenheimer, the original owner of an early-18th-century Torah breastplate
in the museum's collection.
When he had no luck with the full name, Dr. Purin began to shorten it, just
as an immigrant to the United States might have done. He happened on a Web
site belonging to the children of Fred J. Dottheim who fled Nazi Germany for
St. Louis in 1937 and was the son of Siegmund Dottenheimer, a wine merchant
from the Bavarian village of Gunzenhausen who perished in Auschwitz.



New York Times 8/29/01
Veterans Affairs workers accused
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Veterans-Scam.html?searchpv=apon
line

AP
ATLANTA (AP) -- The government has accused three current and former
employees of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs with defrauding the
agency of nearly $6 million to buy houses, cars and even a small submarine.
Authorities said Tuesday that the three used the records of dead veterans to
generate more than 200 fraudulent payments, which were shared among them.


San Diego Daily Transcript 8/27/01
'Poachware' routes computer users to alternate web sites
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/sddt/20010827/lo/_poachware_routes_computer_use
rs_to_alternate_web_sites_1.html

When Richard Greenwood of San Diego-based NewTech Advisors downloaded a fun
new file-sharing program from San Francisco-based EZula Inc., he unwittingly
downloaded what he's calling "poachware."
Yellow hyperlinks began appearing on the Web pages he surfed. Even on his
own company's Web site was an Internet link to Business.com -- a link he
never set up.



Reno Gazette-Journal 8/26/01
Nevada education record keeping on track, state board told
http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/news/998872748.php

by Ronnie Lynn
Consultants assured the Nevada State Board of Education Friday that
implementation of the new statewide system for tracking student records is
progressing soundly and will make it easier for educators to make
data-driven instruction decisions.
As mandated by the Legislature in the early 1990s, the Nevada Department of
Education is developing an electronic statewide database to streamline the
collection, transfer and maintenance of public school students' records.



InternetWeek 8/27/01
Security flaw isn't death knell for WLANs
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cmp/20010827/tc/inw20010827s0009_1.html

by David Drucker
Evidence is mounting that security built into the most common wireless LAN
standard is paper-thin.
But instead of scrapping wireless networks, experts say, enterprises should
extend authentication and encryption techniques used on wired networks,
carefully examine access procedures and consider keeping sensitive data off
the WLAN.



Washington Post 8/29/01
Spy probe seeks cache of classified documents
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10293-2001Aug28.html

by Walter Pincus
The investigation of Brian P. Regan, the retired Air Force master sergeant
arrested last week on espionage charges, has been widened to determine
whether he assembled a large trove of secret documents with the intention of
selling them gradually to various countries, government officials said
yesterday.


The Daily News 8/28/01
B&O railroad had a 'monopoly' on carrying freight, passengers
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1282&dept_id=459568&newsid=2278801&PA
G=461&rfi=9

by Elisha Witt
Passing Baltic Avenue, rounding St. Charles Place and stopping right past
Illinois Avenue, you will find the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Before its
final destination on the Monopoly board, the line had a storied history as
one of the U.S.'s most influential railroads.
Actually, the B&O Railroad has been shaping the course of American history
for more than a century with its trailblazing attitude toward steam engines.



Dallas Morning News 8/29/01
You must remember this, but you probably can't
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/stories/456623_passwords_29me.html

by Michael E. Young
It could be the most intimidating command of our technological age: Sign In.

Uh-oh. Which user name is it? The regular name or the one with the birthday
attached? And the password - simple letters, alphanumeric or the really hard
one with the symbols attached?


Reuters 8/29/01
U.S. must do more to protect top-secret data - GAO
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010829/pl/arms_laboratories_dc_1.html

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy has made some
improvements but has a long way to go to tighten security at its nuclear
weapons laboratories, a General Accounting Office report said on Wednesday.
The department, which handles an estimated 10 million classified nuclear
arms documents, has been criticized for its handling of the spy probe of
Taiwan-born scientist Wen Ho Lee.


www.EcommerceTimes.com 8/27/01
U.S. settles with Internet access spammers
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nf/20010827/tc/13140_1.html

by Michael Mahoney
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has settled a case it filed against
spammers who collected consumers' personal information, including credit
card information, by sending unsolicited commercial e-mails that told people
they had to supply the data or lose access to the Internet.


WorldNetDaily 8/29/01
TWA 800 reporter sees media hypocrisy
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24245

by Jon Dougherty
A journalist who gained notoriety for his role in investigating the TWA
Flight 800 explosion has criticized major news organizations for selectively
defending the First Amendment rights of an Associated Press reporter who had
his phone records seized by the Justice Department, while ignoring his own
similar run-in with the government.




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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