Germany is the first one of European countries, where very strict rules have been introduced, rules that will (atleast this is the opinion of government) prevent hacking. Anti-hacking law says now, that creating or possesion of tools related to security that could potentially be used in attacks, is now forbidden.

Amendment of this law defines clearly that also Denial of Service attacks and targetting single hosts/targets are offence to it. "Hacker" - person who commits serious breach can now be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. Controversion - that word describes quite good, what is now in head of Germany security professionals, who are not sure, if they are allowed to do their job. For example, creation or possesion of tools that could be used in more then one way.

Former countries of the East block behind the Iron wall are still trying to develop better laws to serve their citizens. Sometimes from this struggle are comming results that will make your hair grey in young age. Slovakia, for example, is trying to make an amendment to the Health care Act .

What has health care to do with Zone-H? Let me explain you.

As lekvar in his blog on community website blackhole.sk stated: "George Orwell has been finally beaten...". In the proposed amendment there is great part talking about building "National registers and ascertainings with list of personal data, purpose of usage and perimeter of affected persons". Strange name, that is covering national databases of persons with specific diseases, their disease's progress, personal data...

Russian opposition parties (from democrats to ultra-nationalists) and independent Media  declared that their web servers have been recently  affected by a “murky” wave of hacking attacks, Associated Press reported yesterday.

According to cyber-victims such attacks, whose DDos modality was very similar to the one that no long ago jeopardized Estonian cyber space , were backed by the Kremlin which is trying to reduce the power of free sources of information.  No material proof has been offered yet in support  of similar accusation.

Such  cyber offensive, as reported by the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations, was based on “vast, online networks of computers infected with malicious software — whose owners probably aren't aware they are involved — to paralyze or erase targeted websites.”

 Yet, according to Political Parties and Media, this attack could be seen as an explicit threat  against the opponents to Government , that is already preparing its resources  to December’s parliamentary  election and to next March’s presidential election.

Watching TV on Sunday morning , while still in bed, could be very relaxing. For example, if you are  in Czech Republic you can watch a TV transmission on idyllic landscapes accompanied by  soft, classical music: a sort of mind-yoga. But what could you think about  if, instead of lawns, fields or mountains, you see on the screen the typical mushroom shape produced by a nuke explosion?Such view could be seen last Sunday morning,  during live Panorama show on Czech TV, Channel CT2 (watch it here ).
Nuclear war? No, just a hacking attack: as it was said later  in Czech TV-journals, those pictures were fake, and the transmission had been hacked.

The whole action was prepared by the art group Ztohoven, whose website went soon offline because of the massive number of visitors.

Next week-end the prestigious Alexandra Palace in London, will host hundreds of web developers who are gathering in the British Capital to join an Hackday organized by the BBC and Yahoo.

The event is actually an occasion to show web developers how to get more out of the data feeds and interfaces the two organisations make available, the BBC reports.

Seminars and laboratories will be held by developers from both the BBC and Yahoo.

The Canadian branch of B’nai Brith  (in Hebrew: Sons of the Covenant),  the oldest continually-operating Jews Service organization in the world, has recently filed a human-rights complaint denouncing a Victoria-based website and all its managing staff of contributing to the promotion of hate “affecting persons identifiable as Jews and/or as citizens of Israel”.