Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 16, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba May 2000 m a Winnipeg Ress stars even Western final getting Down and dirty Dallas defeats Colorado 32 to tie series at a game apiece c1 Prairie Gardener Linda Silkowski offers some timely tips on getting your Garden off to a Good Start d1 lotteries Boss fired auditor finds lavish millions in overspending by Doug Narne ill the head of the Manitoba lot teries has been fired and faces criminal investigation after the provincial auditor found evidence of lavish Perks for executives and Mil Lions of dollars in overspending at the Crown Bill Funk was Given no Severance package when he was dismissed from his Job yesterday government sources say other executives at the Agency responsible for the provinces gambling Empire will also be under scrutiny in the coming Days As career bureaucrat Winston Hod gins leaves his Deputy ministers Job at intergovernmental affairs and takes Over As acting Mac president and continued please see lotteries a2 Funk received no Severance package when he was dismissed from his year Tovey big band sets world record place alive with the sound of musicians Olenn Bolo Vancouver Sun outgoing Winnipeg symphony orchestra music director Bramwell Tovey conducts musicians at place setting a new world record for largest music students and the Vancouver symphony orchestra played a Short arrangement of Beethoven ninth ode to Tovey will conduct the Yso full time after his final so concert May latest Videon Hack attack As bad As it gets expert by Doug Nairne a Security breach Videon downplayed last week appears to have been a serious attack that allowed hackers to Snoop through almost everything thou Sands of Cable Modem internet customers were doing its the second time in just Over six months that confidential material has been removed from the internet service providers internal in Videon attempted to downplay the sever Ity of the incidents or deny they had taken in the latest sources in the local computer Community say hackers were Able to Monitor videos network activity Over a period of several pilfering customer user names and information about who was looking at what web site and internet Security consultant Reid Eby said once hackers Are in a they can see anything that users Are Taos is As bad As it he if they get in and get a sniffer program they own by said if Videon was backed As badly As some we if Yum win hip 0 it Mem compute Community sources say recent hacking of Videon was no minor it is far More serious than any previous Inci Dent in the he said passwords for popular services like hot mail Puld also have been com continued please see vweona2 Dike offers Best flood City tells forum by Bui Redekop building a 60kilometre Dike across Manitoba might be the Best plan for protecting Winnipeg against another the City of Winnipeg told an International forum last the City said a Dike offers the most Protection for the largest number of for it would defend Winnipeg from a John Angus Norbert and Doug the cites senior planning made the cites presentation to an International joint commission Public forum last they said the Dike proposal is a viable alternative that warrants More along with a proposal to expand the red River were saying we dont want them to automatically discard the Agathe Dike Angus said in an continued please see ieastexpensivea4 editorial thinking Long term a12 us i Tuims Hycki is now is hoc Hunt tomorrows r ;