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News for
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British Satellites Impossible to Crack
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contributed by Space Rogue
A spokesperson from MOD (Ministry of Defense) has claimed that it is
impossible to break into the computers that control its military
satellites. Recently a Sunday Business article claimed that crackers had
broken into a military satellite, changed its orbit and was holding it
for ransom. This story was picked up by the Reuters wire service and
appeared in newspapers and on web sites world wide. Yesterday HNN did
report on the outlandish claims put forth in the Reuters story but
cautioned against totally believing it until confirmation could be
obtained. Evidently confirmation is not forthcoming and British
officials have flat out denied that such a thing is even possible.
ZD
Net
A copy of the original Sunday Business article has been saved here
Sunday Business
MSNBC examines this media mess in depth and labels HNN as "the voice of
reason"
MSNBC
Newsbytes attempts to debunk the original Sunday Business article
Newsbytes
HNN Editor in Chief, Space Rogue, will be giving an exclusive interview
about this media fiasco to 'Off the Hook', a broadcast and Real Audio
hacker news program. The interview will be broadcast at 8pm EST Tuesday
March 2nd. If you live in the New York area tune in to WBAI 99.5 FM or
catch it on Real Audio.
Off The Hook
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H.R. 514 moves to the Senate
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contributed by Brian Oblivion
H.R. 514, a bill that will criminalize the monitoring of cellular phone,
pager, and public safety frequencies has been passed by the House and is
set to go before the US Senate subcommittee on Commerce, Science and
Transportation. This bill will not stop or prevent anything, it just
makes more crimes and will force even more information underground. We
urge you to learn about this bill and let your feelings known not only
to your own Senators but to those of the committee as well. Please send
your letters today before the communications industry can ram this bill
though. Because of the clear and present danger to personal liberties
present in this bill HNN will continue to follow this story closely.
Opinion of
HR 514 by Brian Oblivion
Full
Text and House debate of HR 514
US Senate Committee on
Commerce, Science and Transportation
Sample letters-
We urge you to use these as a guide and to write your own personal
letters
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contributed by Dr. Mudge
Network Flight Recorder and L0pht Heavy Industries, Inc. have announced
a joint partnership to build backends or plug-in modules for NFR, an
industry leading network analysis and intrusion detection system. L0pht
cited the fact that NFR was the only commercial package capable of being
used for intrusion detection that released full source code to the
academic community as one of the many reasons for joining up with NFR.
Network
Flight Recorder
L0pht Heavy Industries, Inc.
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MS admits that Windows is not reliable
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contributed by soylent
An obscure bug has surfaced in the Windows 95 and 98 operating systems
that will cause the system to stop dead in its tracks after 49.7 days of
continuous use. MS is working on a reliable patch that it plans to
include in the upcoming OSR 2.
C|Net
Microsoft
Knowledge Base
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contributed by h_i_r
Hackers Information Report E-Zine, an HNN
Affiliate, has just released HiR Issue 8. Topics that are covered
in the issue vary from cool little software
toys, info on packet sniffing, CD-Rom Burning tips, and even how to make
an analog clock out of that old 10 Megabyte Hard Drive in your basement.
HiR Distro Site
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contributed by Lord Oak
Issue #3 of the Antidote has been released. This contains articles on
Windows and Linux security tips as well as a primer on how to get your
own domain name and an article on how to collect information about a
remote system.
The
Antidote
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contributed by apm
Innerpulse.com, a hacker humor site, is claiming that they have been
cracked. It is unclear whether this is true or just more wackiness from
this overly funny site.
Innerpulse News
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contributed by Anonymous
Cracked
We have recieved reports that the following web sites have been
cracked:
http://www.stpaul.lib.mn.us
http://www.concourt.sk
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