September 26, 2002

A new round of attacks by online criminals is being directed at online payments service PayPal this week, including e-mails that inform account holders they need to re-enter their credit card data because "we had some trouble with one of our computer systems." [ Internetnews.com ] 1:18:37 PM

Bob Wallace, Software Pioneer, Dies at 53. Bob Wallace developed an early version of the Pascal programming language and helped to invent "shareware" software marketing with PC-WRITE. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology] 10:50:37 AM

Grim find after Ivory Coast fighting BBC - The death toll in the Ivory Coast rebellion has jumped after the discovery of more than 100 bodies in the town of Bouake, seized by mutinous troops last week. 8:24:42 AM

Six Palestinian youth wounded, 11 arrested by the Israeli forces Arabic News - The Israeli army yesterday bombarded by dynamite in Hebron ( to the south of the West Bank) three houses for Palestinians accused to have had taken part in acts against Israel. 8:23:37 AM