--DHS National Cyber Alert System Unveiled (28/29 January 2004) The Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division has launched a National Cyber Alert System, a program that will send e-mail security alerts of worms and viruses to anyone who chooses to subscribe. The alerts will be digitally signed to distinguish them from phony alerts used by attackers to spread malware.

You can subscribe to the "technical alerts" mailing list or the "less-technical-jargon/home-user alert" mailing list at: http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/signup.html

For more details, please see: http://www.us-cert.gov/

-------------------------------------- Power Mac G5 (M9031LL/A ) specifications: Single 1.8 GHz G5 Processor; 512MB PC3200 DDR SDRAM (8,000 MB Maximum); 160GB Hard Disk Drive, SuperDrive; GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 8X-AGP Video Card; PCI-X Expansion Slots; Gigabit Ethernet. and 56K modem.

Limited Offer Price: $2169.95/ea

To put the pricing into perspective, currently a 1.6GHz Single Processor G5 Tower is $30.00 _more_ than the promotional priced system listed above. Also the motherboard in the Power Mac 1.8GHz G5 is superior in speed (133MHz faster), RAM expansion (8000MB, instead of 4000MB) and faster PCI architecture (PCI-X).

Contact :

Doug Hamilton Senior Apple Computer Consultant Computers-on-Campus; Univ. of Manitoba 474-6196 or 474-7000 http://www.umanitoba.ca/bookstore/

----------------------------------------------- Police in the Netherlands have arrested 52 people suspected of using the so-called "Nigerian e-mail scam" to defraud Internet users by sending them spam e-mails asking for their help in transferring a large sum of money out of Nigeria or some other troubled country in exchange for a generous percentage-fee. A task force of 80 officers raided 23 apartments, seizing computers, fake passports and 50,000 euros ($62,000) in cash. Most of those arrested were believed to be Nigerian. [Wired.com, 2 Feb 2004, NewsScan Daily, 2 Feb 2004] http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,62124,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5

------------------------------------------ --FTC's Launches "Operation Secure Your Server" (29 January 2004) The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and other similar entities around the world are sending e-mail messages to owners of servers, asking them to check their servers' configurations for open relays or open proxies, which spammers can exploit to disguise their identities. The e-mail messages also contain a link to information about fixing these server vulnerabilities. http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2004/0,4814,89548,00.html http://news.com.com/2102-7355_3-5150455.html?tag=st_util_print http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/30/ftc.spam.ap/index.html