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contributed by The.Critic
One of the web servers (www1) for the Whitehouse was cracked.
According to information learned by HNN this crack took place at
aprox 8:50am EST on May 10th. (Other news outlets are claiming it
happened at midnight EST on May 9th) Unlike reports from about
one month a ago that claimed whitehouse.gov was cracked this time
there is enough viable evidence to support the allegation. CNN is
reporting that whitehouse spokes people are blaming this on
equipment failure. HNN has been able to secure a copy of the
cracked page.
HNN Cracked Pages
Archive
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contributed by remage
A rather interesting rant has been posted by L0pht Heavy
Industries, Inc. The rant covers the issue of Full Disclosure
which has been argued about and argued about. In the wake of
the recent showcode-Webtrends-L0pht-Microsoft advisory the L0pht
makes a very convincing argument that Full Disclosure is the only
way to protect those who are vulnerable.
L0pht Heavy Industries,
Inc.
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contributed by Simple Nomad
The National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), which is
essentially being run by the FBI, has released online copies of
"CyberNotes", the newsletter whose mission is to "support
security and information system professionals with timely
information on cyber vulnerabilities, hacker exploit scripts,
hacker trends, virus information, and other critical
infrastructure-related best practices". It reads like a
government version of numerous hacker web sites. Our tax dollars
at work.
NIPC Cyber
Notes
Oh, and if you have never visited the NIPC web site it is good
for a laugh or two.
National Infrastructure Protection
Center
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contributed by Scores
A student in Bangladesh claims to have found a cure for the CIH
or Chernobyl virus that wipes out thousands of systems world wide
last month. Monirul Islam Sharif, an undergraduate computer
science student claims that a 70K-byte C language program he
has named MRECOVER will recover the FAT table and the first
partition of a FAT16 table.
Computer
World
MRECOVER
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contributed by nVirB
A rumor apparently started by a local radio station sent panic
into the users of cellular telephones in Lebanon. A local radio
station reported that the cellular networks in the country were
being attacked by a computer virus. It is believed that 200,000
people turned off their phones as a result.
BBC
CNN
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contributed by debris
The group that claimed to have cracked Yahoo, G0at Security, is
calling it quits. They have released a press release explaining
their decision and what happens next.
G0at Security Press Release[goat.html - MISSING]
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Contributed by Netmask
303.org is now offering anonymous web surfing. By setting your
browser to use 303.org as the http proxy server, and port 1050.
This server will forward the type of client you use, but not the
IP address. More info available at
303.org
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contributed by Anonymous
Mitnick Hearing Cancled
The hearing in the Mitnick case mentioned on HNN yesterday has
been cancelled. No this is not a rumour, I just didn't have any
place else to put this.
Cracked
The following site have been reported to HNN as cracked.
http://ucnexus.berkeley.edu
http://www.scandi.com.mx
http://www.tdpnet.com
http://www.corel.com
http://www.whitehouse.gov
http://ns1.tornado.ie/
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