Linux Journal reviews ‘Perl: The Programmer’s Companion,’ stating it is the first book that should be read by people preparing to programme in Perl.

PC World reports that the FBI is picking up its pace in fighting what it calls an ‘epidemic’ in cybercrime. Anyone with a computer can be a victim of cybercrime, says the ever-intuitive FBI.

Linux Journal reports on IBM’s less-than Linux-friendly Linux site, as the company launches its advertising campaign for Linux.

Linux Weekly News has an email indicating the creation of a 365 node Beowulf cluster going up in Utrecht, Holland.

So, you’ve set up your shiny new wireless LAN, and you’ve had no end of fun checking your bank records and conducting company business from the bathroom. Did you give any thought to security? The Wireless Encryption Protocol may not be all the coverage you need. Read along with ZDNet and discover how to make your wireless network even more secure with the help of a free RADIUS server.

What is believed to be the first camera attached to the Internet will soon be retired. The Cambridge University’s Trojan Room Coffee Machine will go offline later this year, when the computer lab moves to a new location. Full Reuters story at ZDNet News.

Ginger, the code-named press corps diversion for January 2001, may be full of hot air in more ways than one. Inventor Dean Kamen still won’t divulge what Ginger is or what it does, but ZDNet’s David Coursey seems to believe that “the key to Ginger may be literally hot air, used to power an ingenious, socially responsible new form of transportation.”

From a Debian security update posted to Linux Today: “It has been reported that a local user could tweak Midnight Commander of another user into executing a random program under the user id of the person running Midnight Commander. This behaviour has been fixed by Andrew V. Samoilov. We recommend you upgrade your mc package.”

Alan Cox posts the latest Linux kernel update. Included in this release: IPX autocreation bug fixed, changes made to Natsemi power management, and a few more spelling fixes.

Linux.com posts an excerpt from the book “The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age,” written by Pekka Himanen, Linus Torvalds and Manuel Castells. In the chapter titled “The Academy and the Monastery,” we read about the Open Source model of software development, the birth of Linux, and the development of a hacker community.