E-businesses place privacy low on their list of priorities and appear most worried
about hackers and other security issues, a survey has found. From ComputerUser.com.

Newsbytes.com reports that the unknown intruder attacked sites ranging from
NASA to the Communications Workers of America following the court
ruling earlier this week that could force MP3.com to pay millions of dollars
in damages to Universal Music Group.

The Web site of a North Yorkshire town was defaced this week by
a enraged local computer cracker intent on wreaking terrible
revenge on the locality, reports ZDNet.

Song-swap company Napster, embroiled in a landmark
copyright lawsuit against the recording industry, on Thursday
distanced itself from a federal judge’s strong ruling against
MP3.com. From ZDCOUK.com.

ZDNet reports that MontaVista Software has taken the wraps off what it
calls a “hard real-time fully preemptable Linux kernel
prototype,” based on Linux kernel 2.4.

Newsbytes News reports that Safetytips.com on Thursday purchased the assets of bankrupt APBnews.com
for $575,000 and plans to revive the crime and justice news site.

Federal Computer Week reports that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded an $11 million grant to Network Associates Inc. to develop new technologies for information system security.

Reuters reports that the new Linux-based product, which combines Internet media and digital broadcasting
technologies giving access to entertainment on the Internet through any home display
device, would be available in the second quarter of 2001, Nokia said.

Despite an
ongoing copyright infringement tussle with Universal Music Group and the recording industry,
MP3.com announced it will reactivate its embattled online music service, according to a report from The Nando Times.

Hitachi plans to gradually support the Linux OS on the MP mainframe series, the IA-64
server, the HITACHI 9000V UNIX servers, the HA8000 PC servers, the FLORA PC series
and mobile products. In addition to these hardware platforms, the company will make its
middleware software products ready for Linux OS. From AsiaBizTech.com.