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Hackers flexing political muscles

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Former Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra, the punk icon who made an unsuccessful run for the Green Party's 2000 presidential nomination, was the keynote speaker at the Hacking on Planet Earth 2000 (H2K) conference here Saturday afternoon. And, despite the fact . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 17, 2000

Hackers making Napster 'irrelevant'

ZDNet's got quite a bit on the H2K conference. "Musicians and academics debated the right and wrong of sharing digital music on the Internet at the Hacking on Planet Earth 2000 (H2K) conference Saturday. While both the panelists and the . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 16, 2000

Commentary: Cult of the Dead Cow more fluff than stuff

Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) put on their usual extravaganza here Saturday at the Hacking on Planet Earth 2000 (H2K) conference. Last year at DEF CON 7.O, I reported on the hacking group releasing the . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 16, 2000

Why it's a 'Summer of Hacking'

If you want an exercise in semantics, randomly ask five wired people to define the term hacker. Their answers will vary wildly, I guarantee. An old school techie may insist a hacker is a black-belt computer programmer or engineer. A belabored . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 14, 2000

Two accused of hacking NASA computers

Two New Yorkers, one of them a 15-year-old high school student on Long Island, have been arrested and accused of hacking into NASA computers. It was unknown whether the cases were linked. The teen surrendered to police Tuesday for allegedly hacking . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 14, 2000

It's a love-hate relationship

The arrest of a noted 'white hat' -- one of the supposed good guys in the trade -- exposes the often murky relationship between federal investigators and hackers. The world of computer hackers divides itself into good and bad by . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 14, 2000

NZ to label computer hacking a crime

Computer hacking is likely to become punishable by imprisonment under new legislation proposed by the New Zealand Government. Information Technology and Associate Justice Minister Paul Swain said yesterday he hoped to add the legislation to the Crimes Amendment Bill, currently before . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 13, 2000

Hacked Off

Eight things hackers hate about you. Hackers aren't crackers, Chris Lichti, a 26-year-old senior system designer at a computer company with offices near Pittsburgh, told me in no uncertain terms. They are a dedicated, workaholic group of aficionados who spend much . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 12, 2000

Mitnick Free to Speak

Kevin Mitnick was informed today by the United States Probation Office that he will be permitted to pursue several offers of employment including speaking engagements, security consulting work and writing for Steven Brill's online magazine Contentville. The approval represents a reversal . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 12, 2000

UK: Hacking threat to national security?

UK population of the opinion that the Internet poses a serious threat to national security, says WhichOnline survey. Nearly a third of all Britons believe the Internet poses a serious threat to national security, according to figures published by WhichOnline . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 12, 2000

Learning how to hack the enemy

With a few keystrokes, nearly 40 student hackers started mapping the computer network of Rutgers University. Using a Unix-based command known as a "traceroute," students who were sequestered in a room just south of San Francisco's Market Street caused every server . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 11, 2000

How a cracker defeated 'Hackopen'

Seven days after the start of our Openhack security competition at https://www.openhack.com we've had our first successful crack, of the e-commerce storefront. The rest of the site, including the Web server, mail server and database, is still secure and remains a target of attack.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 10, 2000

Counterpane To Offer Hacker Insurance

Counterpane Internet Security plans to put money behind its claim that it can protect companies from Internet intruders. The San Jose, Calif.-based company on Monday will announce plans to offer hacker insurance policies of up to $10 million through Lloyds of . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 10, 2000

A practical vulnerability analysis: The PCWeek Crack

First of all, I had to gather information on the remote host, what ports the machine had open and what possibilities were left open. After checking that most of the ports were either filtered by the firewall or unusable due to . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 10, 2000

Hacker insurance

The recent rash of computer viruses and denial of service attacks has put online businesses on alert. The Internet is becoming the next insurance frontier. AIG, Marsh and Lloyd's of London all are offering policies covering hacker attacks, viruses and other . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 08, 2000

A Year Ago: Exclusive: UK hackers have an easy life

A Welsh ex-hacker, famed for cracking the Pentagon's computers from his Cardiff bedroom, claims inadequacies in UK law and erratic media coverage guarantee leniency for British hackers -- even for serious offences.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 07, 2000

Hacker attacks welcomed.. I'm sure they are.

The recent ZDNet OpenHack project claims to "Openhack data will help e-businesses develop the appropriate balance of Net security, openness". Jericho from attrition.org has a different view. "Does this bring flashbacks of any previous contest? Does for me. I seem to recall the same group running a contest like this before. I also recall the previous contest being extremely unbalanced, poorly setup, and very unclear as to the actual goal of it. Last time, the same group put a heavily secured Windows NT box up against a near default install Red Hat Linux box, and tried to claim Linux was less secure after it was hacked. Rather than change the default install of the linux machine by adding security patches, they added insecure third party CGI software that later proved to be the achilles hill of the Linux system. This was far from a fair contest. But wait.. they don't mention this at all."

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 06, 2000

Commentary: Crackers are common criminals

On British TV the other night, a young hacker from Wales was asked why he had broken into a computer and downloaded several thousand people's bank details. He replied that he had done it to prove that the bank's security procedures . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 06, 2000

No Love For Computer Bugs

"Anthony Carathimas, an intense, dark-haired college student, is writing his first computer virus. His eyes locked on his computer screen at Sandia National Laboratories' Livermore branch, he tentatively types a line: Cat virus >> /etc/profile"

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 05, 2000

NASA disputes report that hacker endangered astronauts

NASA denied a British report Monday that a computer hacker endangered space shuttle astronauts during a cyber attack on the space agency in 1997. According to a British Broadcasting Corp. documentary, a hacker overloaded a NASA computer system and threatened . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 05, 2000

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