contributed by Weld Pond
Rootshell, the site famous for archiving exploits, was hacked Wed. Oct 28th. They seem to think they were hacked through sshd, which they were running the latest version of. More info on their home page.

CNet News
Archive of defaced site

UPDATE
SSH has released a notice that they looked at ssh-1.2.26 and have found no vulnerabilities. THey surmise that someone had legitimate authentication to rootshell SSH Release

contributed by f0bic
F0bic says, "The following domains got hacked by team spl0it to rectify the people's image of hackers and to point them on their security flaws."

List of sites:

gliders.net
actamedica.com
andoniancryogenics.com
anmen.com.tr
diners.com.my
dinersclub.com.my
ferreromaderas.com.ar
frontpage.premierhost.net
hialeahnwdade.com
hydroage.com
lipravus.com
mediakorea.com
newgeneva.org
nutrideal.com
safa-inc.com
sciandra.net
specialtycaseworks.com
v7pc.org
wastpeoplesassembly.com
homecare-ct.com

contributed by Sw3wn
"OMB mulls budget to fight cyberterror" OCTOBER 30, 1998 . . . 19:38 EST The Clinton administration is considering including in its next budget funds for a governmentwide system that would detect intrusions into key agency networks and some federal World Wide Web sites and then send reports of possible threats to the FBI.

Federal Computer Week

contributed by Weld Pond
In the pot calling the kettle black award of the century, China calls the defacing of its website, get this, Propaganda.

CNN Interactive

contributed by Weld Pond
A computer program used by scientists to unlock information from complex DNA strands has a new, more mundane role: detecting hackers as they try to penetrate networks. Developed at IBM's Watson Research Laboratory in New York, the computer algorithm looks for repetitive patterns in sets of data, such as a network's server logs.

Detroit News

found on Slashdot
This happened a few weeks ago but this is a good story on hackers in general.

Salon