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News for
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Off the Hook may go off the hook
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contributed by Anonymous
'Off the Hook' the hacker radio program broadcast by WBAI 99.5FM in New
York, and by real audio over the Internet may soon go silent. Pacifica
Radio, the largest and most powerful public radio broadcaster, holds the
broadcast licenses of WBAI 99.5FM in New York, as well as other stations
across the country. Pacifica Radio, will vote on the weekend of February
26-28 to alter the by-laws of the foundation regarding who, in the future,
will select the Pacifica board of governors. This will possibly give
itself, for the first time, majority control over its own composition and
will give board members the total, permanent control of Pacifica and its
300 million dollars worth of assets. This action as well as recent
movements by Pacifica to take the organization private has lead some to
believe that 'Off the Hook' may be in jeopardy of of being thrown off the
air.
(The previous information originally posted to the freepacifica list
and the Free Kevin list and sent to HNN Anonymously)
Pacifica Radio
radio4all - More
information and a petition to sign
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Virus steals PGP private keys
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contributed by Bi0wast3
Opic, a member of The CodeBreakers has written a new MS Word macro virus
known as Caligula that specifically targets PGP private keys. Once you
have been infected the viruses looks for your private key ring and uploads
it to a Codebreakers FTP site. NAI, the owners of PGP claim that this in
no way weakens the security of PGP. (So who do you believe? The good guys
or the bad guys? Which is which?)
Internet
News
ZD
Net
CodeBreakers
Network Associates
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contributed by demomiz
100% Pure Bikkel, a web site that reported on hacker issues like HNN, is
going offline. Demoniz its creator says he wants to spend more time at
his real job. HNN is saddened to see such a quality site and excellent
resource disappear from the web. They will be missed.
100% Pure Bikkel
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contributed by Space Rogue
Unphamiliar Territory was one of the premier underground BBS systems years
ago. They have almost completed the task of putting all the old message
bases on the web. This is a great site for anyone who wants to relive the
glory days or discover what it might have been like during one of the
golden ages of hackers. The message bases chronicle over 10 years of
hacker culture.
History of UPT
UPT Message bases
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FAO Leaking Personal Info.
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contributed by cipher
On Tuesday HNN broke the story about FAO Schwarz leaking the personal
information of its customers onto the web. FAO Schwarz has finnally
fixed the problem and the San Francisco Chronicle runs a story about it
and quotes HNN.
HNN Archive for February 3,
1999
San
Francisco Chronicle
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contributed by rfleming
Respected news site ABC News decides to run major wide scope story on
Hackers. The cover a lot of topics including what appears to be a
'generation gap' between the old school and new school. They do get the
part about Kevin Mitnick being arrested for credit card fraud wrong
though.
ABC
News
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contributed by technetium99
Last week HNN reported that Iowa State University was complaining
about massive cracker attacks. We received the following email regarding
that story.
A group by the name of the Paranoid Gangsters has claimed responsibility
for the ISU meteorology hacks over the past few weeks. Contrary to what
ISU has reported, the hackers are not after meteorological data, but are
only exploiting a lack of security in the ISU systems. Most of the
security holes were on the meteorological servers, making them the most
vulnerable. Fortunately for ISU, most of the security holes have been
patched by the hackers. Consequently, one of the servers was compromised
by Back Orifice, which was actually executed by the admin.
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