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contributed by B. Huston
Stealth and distributed attacks, is the hype and anxiety warranted? Are
there hundreds of people attacking individual sites at once or is it the
lone gunman? Why all the hype? A a new article in the Buffer Overflow
section exmines these questions.
Buffer Overflow
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contributed by Space Rogue
Melissa makes it to Australia
Australia News
Network
Three webs sites taken down. Some siezed by the FBI. sourceOfKaos.com,
codebreakers.org, and coderz.net are all down.
MSNBC
ZD
Net
An excellent and well written article by Jim Louderback on ZD Net
discusses why VicodenES is probably not the author of Melissa.
ZD
Net
Late Update!
A New Jersey man suspected of creating Melissa has been arrested and
released on $100,000 bail. While the article is long the details are few
however it appears that this man has absolutely nothing to do with
VicodenES.
ZD
Net
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contributed by Conde Vampiro
A new Linux security tool called LogIt has been released. LogIt is a
logging tool that can analyze all incoming ip datagrams, or all datagrams
through a ethernet device, or the device can be put into promiscuos mode
and log a whole network. LogIt can send log files via via syslog or to a
file and will work under X-windows. LogIt claims to be able to detect
Queso, NMAP, TrivialFTP, ICMP Attacks and much more.
J.J.F. / Hackers Team
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contributed by Frank
The Chaos Computer Club in Germany has announced the final plans for
its summer camp to take place on August 6th, 7th, and 8th.
Chaos Communication Camp
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contributed by The Phantom
The Shadow Knights Security Corp an HNN
Affiliate has a report about a possible scam involving spam in an
effort to collect AOL users passwords. A spam email offering a 'password
storage service' for AOL users which claims to speed up connection times
and web surfing speeds by as much as 250% is being sent to AOL users.
Shadow
Knights
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contributed by erehwon
With sections covering various threat scenarios you would think there
would be a little more meat to this article. Unfortunatly there is
nothing here but FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt)
Government
Executive Magazine
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contributed by Space Rogue
We are glad that everyone enjoyed our April Fools jokes yesterday.
Evidently a lot of people do believe that Kevin Mitnick (or anyone else
for that matter) can actually whistle a 2400 baud carier. Just to make
sure everyone is on the same sheet of music HNN was NOT cracked, Kevin
did NOT escape, MS did NOT buy Network Solutions, NAI has NOT bought
L0phtCrack for 1.2 Billion, and CERT is NOT going out of business.
Our apologies go to AntiOnline, 2600, the FREE KEVIN site, and anyone
whos mailboxes overflowed from people who actually believed some of that.
In case you missed it...
HNN Archive for April 1, 1999
HNN Defaced Pages Archive
We have updated the HNN store with several new products. Everything from
a paper shredder to a Y2K countdown clock. Take a look!
HNN Store
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contributed by Anonymous
Cracked
Yes, all of these sites where reported as cracked. There is no April
Fools here.
http://www.pittsburghpolice.com
http://www.umd.edu
http://www.salemaker.com
http://www.mmisys.com
http://www.towngreen.com
http://www.eranorton.com
http://www.learningadventure.org
http://berlin.genetic.com.br
http://www.progenic.com
http://www.airbank.com
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