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contributed by darkscent
It is often difficult to separate the fact from the fiction, rumors,
supposition, and unsubstantiated allegations that fly around the net when
big news breaks. This is what HNN has been able to verify so far.
Yesterday morning at aprox 6:00 am CST the FBI executed nine search
warrants in Houston, Seattle and various California locations. HNN
believes that some of those who where raided where iCBM, MostHated,
loophole, Spaceg0at, soulblazer, fryz, vallah and Cl0pz. HNN has not
learned of any arrests that have been made. While the FBI has not
revealed why the search warrants were executed it is believed to have
some relation to the recent crack of whitehouse.gov. HNN has received no
confirmation of Most Wanted lists or FBI Directives, rumors of which have
been floating around the net.
MSNBC
In response to the recent raids several other members of gH (Global Hell)
as well as other groups such as Team spl0it have attacked numerous web
sites, (estimates range from between 40 and 100). The FBI has admitted
to receiving a major Denial of Service attack, and the US Senate web site
was defaced for a few minutes. In an interview with MSNBC MostHated said
"The retaliation has to stop." HNN received an email from "Israeli
Ghost" claiming responsibility for the FBI DoS attack. HNN was also able
to snag the US Senate web page defacement before it was restored.
Nando
Times
CNN
C|Net
Israeli Ghost Email[ghost.html - MISSING]
HNN Defaced Pages Archive
Last week, a gH member Zyklon (Eric Burns), was indicted in connection
with three separate attacks on Virginia area systems owned by Computer
Tech Services, Issue Dynamics, and Electric Press which housed the web
site of the United States Information Agency. The Seattle Times has run a
biographical piece on Zyklon. The story has quotes from his classmates
and parents.
Seattle
Times
Zyklon's Indictment
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contributed by squid stupid
It has been hard to nail down specific information but a few
local news outlets in Florida are reporting that four students
of Flagler Palm Coast High School may face a slew of criminal
charges for unlawful computer access. The suspects have
been accused of deleting grade files and compromising exams on
their school computer system.
Yahoo
News
If anyone has a better link please submit it.
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contributed by Phoz
The Danish Police Computer Crime Unit have exposed a 17-year old from
Sweden claiming that he broke into at least 12,000 computers worldwide,
including military, bank, and university owned systems. The reports
indicate that he used an automated version of a BIND vulnerability to
gain access and has been compromising systems since early 1997.
phoz.dk- Translated News
Reports.
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contributed by N4vi11Us
Yet another Trojan horse that leaves MS Windows systems wide
open has been discovered. This new backdoor tool is similar to
Back Orifice or NetBus. NetBus is now a commercial shareware
product. Back Orifice has undergone a major rewrite and a new
version, BO2K, is expected to be released at this years DefCon
hacker convention. Once a a system has had any one of these
programs installed they become wide open to unknown remote
users who have complete control over the system.
MSNBC
ZD
Net
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contributed by nVirb
Variants of the word Macro virus known as Melissa continue to appear.
This time the mutant disguises itself in a '.rtf' named document as
opposed to '.doc' which helps to hide it from anti-virus
software. It has been speculated that Melissa and a virus known
as CAP discovered in 1997 may have met in the wild and mutated
together.
PC
World
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contributed by Silicosis
The Advance Digital Security Research Department of the University of
Cambridge Computer Laboritory has released an excellent paper on the
security weaknesses of smart cards and describes several methods of
extracting protected data and software from smart card processors.
Anyone who has been doing any smart card hacking should probably read
this.
Design
Principals for Tamper-Resistant Smart Card Processors
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contributed by simonsays
Should the United States use the Internet as a tool of war? A page has
now been set up where you can email the President with your concerns in
response the allegation that the CIA will break into various banks to
mess with official Yugoslavian bank accounts.
punkz.com/sixtoed
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contributed by Anonymous
Cracked
The following websites have been reported as cracked
http://info2.cs-snd.com.cn
http://mmic.snu.ac.kr
http://vunews.vanderbilt.edu
http://wfserverb.weifang.gov.cn
http://www.abatelli.com
http://www.brain3.com
http://www.bringardner.com
http://www.century21rustic.com
http://www.cookpony.com
http://www.craftsmenhomes.com
http://www.devlin-mcniff.com
http://www.dunemere.com
http://www.firsttowne.com
http://www.hampton.net
http://www.hanfra.com
http://www.lambagency.com
http://www.mainstproperties.com
http://www.makah.org
http://www.montauk.net
http://www.morleyagency.com
http://www.moviespotlight.com
http://www.warez-city.cx
http://www.bobhowardnissan.com
http://www.cns.state.va.us
http://www.senate.gov
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