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¯`·>[=©HWA'99=]<·´¯ Number 4 Volume 1 1999
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"stoners make the best cryptologists, I know because i've written some
kick ass shit and the next day, no way could I figure out wtf I did
man I have stuff from like the 80's that to this day, I still have no
idea what it is and whole teams at the NSA have worked on it for me
stoners man, thats how to do real strong crypto...DES? no! LSD? yes!"
- Stu Shimoruma (off the record at a wild party in Denver)
Synopsis
--------
The purpose of this newsletter is to 'digest' current events of interest
that affect the online underground and netizens in general. This includes
coverage of general security issues, hacks, exploits, underground news
and anything else I think is worthy of a look see.
This list is NOT meant as a replacement for, nor to compete with, the
likes of publications such as CuD or PHRACK or with news sites such as
AntiOnline, the Hacker News Network (HNN) or mailing lists such as
BUGTRAQ or ISN nor could any other 'digest' of this type do so.
It *is* intended however, to compliment such material and provide a
reference to those who follow the culture by keeping tabs on as many
sources as possible and providing links to further info, its a labour
of love and will be continued for as long as I feel like it, i'm not
motivated by dollars or the illusion of fame, did you ever notice how
the most famous/infamous hackers are the ones that get caught? there's
a lot to be said for remaining just outside the circle... <g>
@HWA
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Welcome to HWA.hax0r.news ... #4
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Issue #4 Got root?
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"For a company to delay a shipment for a month just means they are
doing the product quality work. If it is put off six months then they
probably have a problem."
-- Giga Information Group analyst Merv Adrian to Computer Reseller
News, comparing the one-month delay of Oracle's 8i database to the
delays of Windows 2000 Server.
_____/[ INDEX ]\__________________________________________________________
------=========-----------------------------------------------------------
"The LoU cyberwar issue"
Keys: use the keys to search for start of each section rather than using
regular numbers ... this may change but dats the way its at now so tfs.
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Key Content
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0.0 .. COPYRIGHTS
0.1 .. CONTACT INFORMATION & SNAIL MAIL DROP ETC
0.2 .. SOURCES
0.3 .. THIS IS WHO WE ARE
0.4 .. WHAT'S IN A NAME? why `HWA.hax0r.news'?
0.5 .. INTRODUCTIONS TO STAFF AND BIO'S
0.6 .. THE HWA_FAQ V1.0
------+--+----------------------------------------------------------------
1.0 .. Greets (!?!?!?)
1.1 .. Last minute stuff, rumours, newsbytes, mailbag
2.0 .. From the editor
2.1 .. Raza-Mexicana responds to hacks reported in issue #3
2.2 .. Think CERT is a joke? well now you can use HERT instead.
2.3 .. Crypto: Cypherpunks list update
3.0 .. Canc0n'99/2k
4.0 .. Qubik's ruminations from bikkel's webboard
4.1 .. The hacker; Sex symbol of the Millenium
5.0 .. LoU vs China: Legions Of The Underground cyber war hardon goes limp.
5.1 .. Spies in the wires 9e99, bugs of another manner in your PC?
5.2 .. Schoolgirl's can hax0r too
5.3 .. Phraudulant Philth
5.4 .. "Co-co" and several other Chinese NSA infiltrators have been
detained for questioning in startling 'James Bond style' real-life
spy drama.
6.0 .. l0phtcrack 2.5 and Windows 95/98 sekurity issues
6.1 .. The l0pht produces a /tmp dir security monitoring tool and advisory.
6.2 .. The l0pht's 'Tan' does a 'Cyberspace Underwriters Labs' dissertation.
6.3 .. Wireless PBX phreaking at your local hospital?
H.W .. Hacked Websites
A.0 .. APPENDICES
A.1 .. PHACVW linx and references
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@HWA'98/99
0.0 (C) COPYRIGHT, (K)OPYWRONG, COPYLEFT? V2.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
THE OPINIONS OF THE WRITERS DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE
OPINIONS OF THE PUBLISHERS AND VICE VERSA IN FACT WE DUNNO
WTF IS GONNA TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIS, I'M NOT DOING IT
(LOTS OF ME EITHER'S RESOUND IN THE BACKGROUND) SO UHM JUST
READ IT AND IF IT BUGS YOU WELL TFS (SEE FAQ).
Important semi-legalese and license to redistribute:
YOU MAY DISTRIBUTE THIS ZINE WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM MYSELF
AND ARE GRANTED THE RIGHT TO QUOTE ME OR THE CONTENTS OF THE
ZINE SO LONG AS Cruciphux AND/OR HWA.hax0r.news ARE MENTIONED
IN YOUR WRITING. LINK'S ARE NOT NECESSARY OR EXPECTED BUT ARE
APPRECIATED the current link is http://welcome.to/HWA.hax0r.news
IT IS NOT MY INTENTION TO VIOLATE ANYONE'S COPYRIGHTS OR BREAK
ANY NETIQUETTE IN ANY WAY IF YOU FEEL I'VE DONE THAT PLEASE EMAIL
ME PRIVATELY current email cruciphux@dok.org
THIS DOES NOT CONSTITUTE ANY LEGAL RIGHTS, IN THIS COUNTRY ALL
WORKS ARE (C) AS SOON AS COMMITTED TO PAPER OR DISK, IF ORIGINAL
THE LAYOUT AND COMMENTARIES ARE THEREFORE (C) WHICH MEANS:
I RETAIN ALL RIGHTS, BUT I GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO READ, QUOTE
AND REDISTRIBUTE/MIRROR. - EoD
Although this file and all future issues are now copyright, some of
the content holds its own copyright and these are printed and
respected. News is news so i'll print any and all news but will quote
sources when the source is known, if its good enough for CNN its good
enough for me. And i'm doing it for free on my own time so pfffft. :)
No monies are made or sought through the distribution of this material.
If you have a problem or concern email me and we'll discuss it.
cruciphux@dok.org
Cruciphux [C*:.]
0.1 CONTACT INFORMATION AND MAIL DROP
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wahoo, we now have a mail-drop, if you are outside of the U.S.A or
Canada / North America (hell even if you are inside ..) and wish to
send printed matter like newspaper clippings a subscription to your
cool foreign hacking zine or photos, small non-explosive packages
or sensitive information etc etc well, now you can. (w00t)
Send all goodies to:
HWA NEWS
P.O BOX 44118
370 MAIN ST. NORTH
BRAMPTON, ONTARIO
CANADA
L6V 4H5
Dying to send something but want some recompense or don't know what
to mail? well everyone who mails something in will be mentioned in a
issue (man does this sound like a fucking DC/Marvel comic book or
what?) you won't get a secret decoder ring in return but you *will*
get a 'secret' url that will have a 'present' for you (and only you)
to show our appreciation (wanna know what it is? you'll have to send
something to find out, and yeah picture postcards also count).
Ideas for interesting 'stuff' to send in apart from news:
- Photo copies of old system manual front pages (signed by you) ;-)
- Photos of yourself, your mom, sister, dog and or cat in a NON
compromising position plz I don't want pr0n. <g>
- Picture postcards
- CD's 3.5" disks, Zip disks, 5.25" or 8" floppies, Qic40/80/100-250
tapes with hack/security related archives, logs, irc logs etc on em.
- audio or video cassettes of yourself/others etc of interesting phone
fun or social engineering examples or transcripts thereof.
If you still can't think of anything you're probably not that interesting
a person after all so don't worry about it <BeG>
Our current email:
Submissions/zine gossip.....: hwa@press.usmc.net
Private email to editor.....: cruciphux@dok.org
Distribution/Website........: sas72@usa.net
@HWA
"Kill the police, kill the whole force, destroy the
system and trash the courts."
- G.G.Allin
0.2 Sources ***
~~~~~~~~~~~
Sources can be some, all, or none of the following (by no means complete
nor listed in any degree of importance) Unless otherwise noted, like msgs
from lists or news from other sites, articles and information is compiled
and or sourced by Cruciphux no copyright claimed.
HiR:Hackers Information Report... http://axon.jccc.net/hir/
News & I/O zine ................. http://www.antionline.com/
News/Hacker site................. http://www.bikkel.com/~demoniz/
News (New site unconfirmed).......http://cnewz98.hypermart.net/
Back Orifice/cDc..................http://www.cultdeadcow.com/
News site (HNN/l0pht),............http://www.hackernews.com/
Help Net Security.................http://help.ims.hr
News,Advisories,++ ...............http://www.l0pht.com/
NewsTrolls (HNN)..................http://www.newstrolls.com/
News + Exploit archive ...........http://www.rootshell.com/beta/news.html
CuD ..............................http://www.soci.niu.edu/~cudigest
News site+........................http://www.zdnet.com/
+Various mailing lists and some newsgroups, such as ...
http://www.the-project.org/ .. IRC list/admin archives
http://www.anchordesk.com/ .. Jesse Berst's AnchorDesk
alt.hackers.malicious
alt.hackers
alt.2600
BUGTRAQ
ISN security mailing list
ntbugtraq
<+others>
NEWS Agencies, News search engines etc:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://www.cnn.com/SEARCH/
http://www.foxnews.com/search/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=cracker&days=0&wires=0&startwire=0
http://www.news.com/Searching/Results/1,18,1,00.html?querystr=cracker
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/
http://search.yahoo.com.sg/search/news_sg?p=cracker
http://www.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?DB_NAME=WPlate&TOTAL_HITLIST=20&DEFAULT_OPERATOR=AND&headline=&WITHIN_FIELD_NAME=.lt.event_date&WITHIN_DAYS=0&description=cracker
http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/cybercrime/
http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/cybercrime/chaostheory/ (Kevin Poulsen's Column)
NOTE: See appendices for details on other links.
Referenced news links
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_254000/254236.stm
http://freespeech.org/eua/ Electronic Underground Affiliation
http://www.l0pht.com/cyberul.html
http://www.hackernews.com/archive.html?122998.html
...
Submissions/Hints/Tips/Etc
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
All submissions that are `published' are printed with the credits
you provide, if no response is received by a week or two it is assumed
that you don't care wether the article/email is to be used in an issue
or not and may be used at my discretion.
Looking for:
Good news sites that are not already listed here OR on the HNN affiliates
page at http://www.hackernews.com/affiliates.html
Magazines (complete or just the articles) of breaking sekurity or hacker
activity in your region, this includes telephone phraud and any other
technological use, abuse hole or cool thingy. ;-) cut em out and send it
to the drop box. Hell even a postcard would be cool, i'll scan em in and
stick em in a postcard section on the site heh. I like mail. It is your
friend. Spammers will be bumfucked by my pet doberman though. Or digitally
destroyed. so be warned. <sic>
- Ed
@HWA
0.3 THIS IS WHO WE ARE
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
sas72@usa.net ............. currently active
cruciphux@dok.org.......... currently active
* Formerly "Who am we?" otherwise unchanged since last issue. see the
mini-bio on Cruciphux in issue #3 for details on the editor. - Ed
:-p
1. We do NOT work for the government in any shape or form.
2. Unchanged since issue #1, I'm still me apparently:
"Ok i'm still a noone and a nobody, but yeah I *was* a hacker, been
a cracker, ran a warez board (and a PD board) done some phone phun
etc .. but all in my teens and i've since started wearing a "white
hat" (but it has little grey specks on it I must admit) and I am in
no way a "master hacker/phreaker" not "leet". I'm just me, take it or
leave it, didn't want it, didn't need it, been there, done that ...
you guys have the reigns now and i'm deadly curious as to what you're
doing with them. Hell mail me for advice and shit if you want, i'll
help if I can. I'll respond to all verifiable emails."
C*:.
0.4 Whats in a name? why HWA.hax0r.news??
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Well what does HWA stand for? never mind if you ever find out I may
have to get those hax0rs from 'Hackers' or the Pretorians after you.
In case you couldn't figure it out hax0r is "new skewl" and although
it is laughed at, shunned, or even pidgeon holed with those 'dumb
leet (l33t?) dewds' <see article later in this issue) this is the state
of affairs. It ain't Stephen Levy's HACKERS anymore. BTW to all you up
and comers, i'd highly recommend you get that book. Its almost like
buying a clue. Anyway..on with the show .. - Editorial staff
0.5 Intros to new staff members
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome on board some new *ppl
that have endeavoured to take on the responsibilities of foreign
correspondants to the zine. These people may not contribute to each
and every issue but they will be keeping us appraised of goings on
within their geographic areas welcome aboard ppl!
They are in no order of importance, its alphabetic ;^,
N0Portz ..........................: Australia
Qubik ............................: United Kingdom
system error .....................: Indonesia
Wile (wile coyote) ...............: Japan/the East
Qubik has submitted a funny article found further on in this release
and other intros are to be found in section 2.7
* correspondants are not officially "HWA group".members, but are
considered newsletter "staff"
Cruciphux's bio.¥ Dec 1998
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This was 'released' in issue #3. Check that if you're interested.
* The bio of at least one other staff member will be forthcoming
in future issues...
@HWA
0.6 HWA FAQ v1.0 Dec 31st 1998/1999 (Abridged)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Also released in issue #3. (unchanged) check that issue for the faq
it won't be reprinted unless changed in a big way with the exception
of the following excerpt from the FAQ, included to assist first time
readers:
Some of the stuff related to personal useage and use in this zine are
listed below: Some are very useful, others attempt to deny the any possible
attempts at eschewing obfuscation by obsucuring their actual definitions.
!= - Mathematical notation "is not equal to" or "does not equal"
ASC(247) "wavey equals" sign means "almost equal" to. If written
an =/= (equals sign with a slash thru it) also means !=, =< is Equal
to or less than and => is equal to or greater than (etc, this aint
fucking grade school, cripes, don't believe I just typed all that..)
AAM - Ask a minor (someone under age of adulthood, usually <16, <18 or <21)
*AOL - A great deal of people that got ripped off for net access by a huge
clueless isp with seckurity that you can drive buses through, we're
not talking Kung-Fu being no good here, Buy-A-Kloo maybe?
EoC - End of Commentary
EoA - End of Article
EoF - End of file
EoD - End of diatribe (AOL'ers: look it up)
CC - Credit Card phraud
CCC - Chaos Computer Club (Germany)
NFC - Depends on context: No Further Comment or No Fucking Comment
NFR - Network Flight Recorder (Do a websearch)
PHAC - And variations of same <coff>
Phreaking, Hacking, Anarchy, Cracking, Carding (CC) Groups Virus, Warfare
Alternates: H - hacking, hacktivist
C - Cracking <software>
C - Cracking <systems hacking>
W - Warfare <cyberwarfare usually as in Jihad>
CT - Cyber Terrorism
TBC - To Be Continued also 2bc (usually followed by ellipses...) :^0
TBA - To Be Arranged/To Be Announced also 2ba
TFS - Tough fucking shit.
"At least we know for sure which *century* Windows 2000
(aka NT Workstation 5.0) will ship in.."
- Ed
1.0 Greets!?!?! yeah greets! w0w huh. - Ed
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thanks to all in the community for their support and interest but i'd
like to see more reader input, help me out here, whats good, what sucks
etc, not that I guarantee i'll take any notice mind you, but send in
your thoughts anyway.
Shouts to:
* Kevin Mitnick * demoniz * The l0pht crew
* tattooman * Dicentra * Pyra
* Vexxation * FProphet * TwistedP
* NeMstah
* all the people who sent in cool emails and support
* our new 'staff' members.
kewl sites:
+ http://www.l0pht.com/
+ http://www.2600.com/
+ http://hacknews.bikkel.com/ (http://www.bikkel.com/~demoniz/)
!+ http://www.legions.org/
+ http://www.genocide2600.com/
+ http://www.genocide2600.com/~tattooman/
+ http://www.hackernews.com/ (Went online same time we started issue 1!)
!+ Don't run picture.exe! ;-) they're everywhere damn spies in the wires.
@HWA
1.1 Last minute stuff, rumours and newsbytes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"InfoFreako, there isn't a thing that I don't wanna know"
- Jesus Jones
+++ sorry its late, information overload.
+++ We could use some feedback. Our current complaint tends to be
"give us more" in fact issue #5 is in progress already. I've decided
that since some articles have a limited life-span on the net to
include them within the text rather than to provide just links. I
archive these articles for my own use anyway but indexing them in a
database for future retrieval would be quite the task. I'd like to be
able to publish weekly but at this time that seems somewhat unfeasible
if the recent activity is any indication of the future. Any input,
ideas, or comments are welcomed. More help in sorting out some of the
mass of stories may be needed after all... -Ed
-+- WANTED!: Info / contributors from all countries and locales for news
sources/clippings newsbytes, virus and trojan information, new techno
logical abuse issues etc check issue #3 if interested. Non profit, for
fun only so no $$... no hassles/no pressures/no bs and full credit. -Ed
+++ Jan 9th: 13 yr old Chinese cracker arrested by Police:
From Bikkel Contributed to Bikkel by Deepcase
A kid from Inner Mongalia was busted after he illegally accessed an
information service network using his father's name. The teen-ager
connected to an information network and set up a page called 'Hacker.
He also took control of some managers' accounts of a multimedia
telecommunications system. Because of his age the authorities couldn't
prosecute him. (they didn't kill him??) Instead they ordered his
parents to keep a closer eye on him. This story is picked up by
The NewYork Times.
+++ The Furby is reportedly banned from the NSA building due to it's
ability to repeat words and phrases that it hears. (From HNN & BBC)
+++ We have some new 'foreign correspondants' introduced elsewhere
in this newsletter, we're still looking for people that can submit
in English or have stuff translated to something resembling english
from "everywhere else".
+++ A new con is in the works for Asia and the East, no details yet
Submitted by Wile our 'man in the East' webpage and further info
is forthcoming - wile
+++ Legistlation changes are in the works for HK, according to wile
currently there are no laws re: cracking in Japan, this is due to
change in the next month apparently, we'll keep you posted on this
as it develops.. - wile
+++ Yes people from HWA.hax0r.news are hosting Canc0n'99/2k (site under
development as of this writing by sAs72) and NO it is not a cash
grab, (has anyone ever made money at a con!?!? heh.) assuming it
even flies...
+++ Defcon7 is in July (Fri Jul 9th - Sun Jul 11th) Las Vegas.
- http://www.defcon.org/
- http://www.hfactorx.org/defcon7.html
- http://www.defcon.org/html/other-conventions.html
+++ Kevin Mitnick is still in prison.
+++ Justin Petersen (Agent Steal) is sentenced to 5 months in jail(???)
+++ We're still here and evolving...
"Love comes in spurts" - Richard Hell & The Voidoids (NYC circa 1977)
2.0 From the editor.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Issue #4! well we made it to #4, (ok show of hands, how many ppl
didn't think we'd get this far? oh just you ok you can sit down
now, thanks.)
<snip>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <interesting411.h>
#include <wit.h>
main()
{
printf ("Read commented source!\n\n");
/*
* Security and testing security, sometimes there is a thin line between
* hacking/cracking and plain general network troubleshooting and detective
* work, Just as a hammer can be used to build or to destroy, so security
*should be scrutinised closely and publicly in order to enhance our net
*experience, and maintain its' usefulness as an open web.
*
* Radar detectors are usually ahead of the Police, crackers will
*generally be turncoat sysadmins or crackers-for-phun and as sysadmins
*can become hackers so can hackers become sysadmins... ad infinitum ad
*nauseum...don't immediately assume that a cracker is 'bad' or a criminal
*a legitimate sysadmin could just as easily be reading your info and
*abusing his power of position. It pays to be more than a little paranoid
*since no one "sees" your crime meek men become warriors and strong men
*and their networks can be flatlined with a smurf or synflood attack...
*/
printf ("EoF.\n");
}
<snip>
Congrats, thanks, articles, news submissions and kudos to us at the
main address: hwa@press.usmc.net complaints and all nastygrams and
mailbombs can go to /dev/nul nukes, synfloods and papasmurfs to
127.0.0.1, Furby (1st/2nd generation) mods to our email or snail
mail addy... :)
danke.
C*:.
@HWA
2.1 Raza-Mexicana responds to hacks reported in issue #3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*** In response to the report in issue #3 (see section H.W on hacked web
sites) Raza-Mexicana had this to say:
From: Raza-Mexicana@xxxxxx.xxxx
Delivered-To: cruciphux@dok.org
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 23:40:51 -0800 (PST)
To: cruciphux@dok.org
Subject: Newer hacks (Dec 28th) ¿?
Reply-To: Raza-Mexicana@xxxx.xx
X-Mailer: -[ Raza Mexicana Team ]-
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
In answer to the December 28th hack's news Raza Mexicana
DO NOT claim any responsability, the Raza Mexicana members were
the AUTHORS of the Hacks made on DECEMBER 24th, and Bikkel
and HNN post the message about the hacks on december 25th, the
servers were been hacked 2 days and on December 26th the
Finisterra and Cabo-architects servers were fixed, Cabolinda and
Apibajasur were disconected and Villamex removed the hacked page
and by the way the hacks that you couldn't see. That's why we
want you to put this clear, because you thought that we didn't
make those hacks.
Thanks.
Raza Mexicana Team
- - --
En respuesta a las noticias sobre los nuevos hacks del 28 de diciembre
Raza Mexicana NO clama responsabilidad, los integrantes del grupo
Raza Mexicanason los autores de los hacks llevados a cabo el dia 24
DE DICIEMBRE y que bikkel y hackernews notificaron en la fecha 25
de diciembre los servidores estuvieron hackeados por 2 dias y el 26
de diciembre fue removido el hack de las paginas en finisterra y
cabo-architects cabolinda y apibajasur fueron desconetados,
villamex removio la pagina para poner un estado de pagina en
construccion, estos hacks fueron notificados por diferentes medios
en Mexico a pesar del dia festivo en ke se ejecutaron y por lo visto,
no los lograron ver uds. por lo que keremos ke aklaren lo referente
a este asunto.
Gracias.
Raza Mexicana Team
Printed unedited other than the removal of the pgp sig and the email
address. - Ed
@HWA
2.2 The latest big thing in security
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 03:44:40 -0700 (MST)
From: mea culpa <jericho@dimensional.com>
To: InfoSec News <isn@repsec.com>
Subject: [ISN] HERT formed as alternative to CERT
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x-infosecnews: x-loop, procmail, etc
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/2196.html
Creation of HERT
HERT - January 10th 1999, 09:12 EST
HERT stands for Hacker Emergency Response Team and is an international
non-profit organization based in France.
Exactly like CERT, our US counterpart, our first goal is to provide
accurate information about computer security vulnerabilities, provide
incident response services to sites that have been the victims of attacks,
publish security alerts and find new vulnerabilities. Our next goal is to
represent concerned computer users and organizations as an advocacy
league.
Why HERT is a better alternative to CERT?
National Computer Security Center, a sub-branch of the National Security
Agency initiated the creation of the Computer Emergency Response Team and
was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA).
A majority of people think CERT is doing a brilliant job, but when you
examine CERT more closely, one could believe CERT is a bit corrupted.
Just take a look at the CERT statistics, since 1995, for 1027
vulnerabilities reported, they have published only 55 advisories
bulletins. Is this a joke, did they count duplicate vulnerability reports?
Was there 1000 cert initiated vendor advisories?
>From an organization directed by US Military Intelligence, you must
assume the worst especially when they brag about their Information
Superiority.
We decided to create HERT, when system administrators of highly sensitive
US networks informed us that they were supplied with official vendor
patches months before public announcement were made by vendors, CERT or
full-disclosure mailing lists like Bugtraq.
-o-
Subscribe: mail majordomo@repsec.com with "subscribe isn".
Today's ISN Sponsor: Internet Security Institute [www.isi-sec.com]
Hrm, it's French, what else do I have to say about this? you can't beat
those wacky french bastages for funny names... - Ed
@HWA
2.3 Crypto: Cypherpunks list announcements
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X-Authentication-Warning: toad.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol
To: cypherpunks-announce@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net, gnu@toad.com
Subject: Watch the gov't discuss crypto policy Friday in Cupertino: PECSENC
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 02:21:45 -0800
From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
PECSENC is a hard-to-parse acronym for the President's Export Council,
Subcommittee on Encryption. The Council is a group of assorted
citizens appointed by the President of the US under Executive Order
12991 to advise him on US trade issues. Since crypto policy is so
complex and painful, they pushed it into a subcommittee of its own.
That subcommittee is meeting this Friday at HP in Cupertino. They
usually meet on the East Coast, far from most people affected by the
crypto regulations, so I thought it would be friendly of us to show up
and welcome them to Silicon Valley.
I will be speaking at the meeting about the Wassenaar Arrangement, but
that isn't why you should come. You should come because this is one
of the few public fora in which government and selected citizens
actually discuss crypto policy. Officially, and to advise the President.
They faxed me 6 pages of maps and directions, but it all boils down
to: Take I-280 to Cupertino, exit on Wolfe Road going north/east, turn
right at the second light on Pruneridge Ave, turn left at the first
light into the HP complex, go 200 feet and turn right at the "T"
intersection, and follow to the last building on the left, Building
46. Park in the visitor lot in front, register at the reception desk
and get a badge. The room can hold about 60 people (of which about 30
will be PECSENC and invited speakers.)
There won't be an opportunity to rant, like there was a few years ago
when the National Research Council invited public comments at the CFP
conference. (Perhaps they'll set one up for a future meeting -- I
think it would be informative for them.) But it's a chance to see the
alice-in-wonderland workings of the government as they try to
manipulate a supposedly independent advisory group into overlooking
the emperor's nudity. We may get a chance to make a few short, polite
comments, though they've arranged the agenda so the public gets to
comment *before* the government or the subcommittee says anything
worth commenting about.
Some of the people on the subcommittee should be well known to
cypherpunks:
Stewart Baker, lawyer, ex-General Counsel of NSA, GAK cheerleader
Kevin McCurley, cryptographer, IBM Research, President of IACR
(IACR was established by Diffie, Chaum, Rivest, etc in the
'70s to protect and foster crypto research -- www.iacr.org)
Esther Dyson, business philosopher & author, EFF, ICANN Interim Chair
John Liebman, lawyer, author of major export control law tome
(I'm leaving out ten or twenty people, mostly because the list
isn't published anywhere online that I can find)
As part of their role in "supporting" the subcommittee's work, the
government has published the driest and least fun-looking "Notice of
Open Meeting" that the law will let them get away with:
http://www.bxa.doc.gov/tacs/PECSENCMtg.html
However there is a juicier agenda which I received as a speaker:
We have revised the schedule in light of certain timing constraints. So,
please note that the private sector discussion of Wassenaar will take
place in the afternoon. In addition to John Gilmore, PECSENC member Ira
Rubenstein will address this topic. (Lynn McNulty of RSA has been
asked to offer remarks on RSA's experiences, too.) Also, Whit Diffie will
let us know shortly whether he will speak before the group.
Here is the updated agenda:
President's Export Council
Subcommittee on Encryption
January 15, 1998
Pacific Ocean Room, Bldg. 46
19447 Pruneridge Avenue
Cupertino, California 95014
9:00 Opening Comments/ Stewart Baker, Acting PECSENC Chairman
Discussion of List Server/
PECSENC's Role
9:45 Public Comments
10:00 BXA Update William A. Reinsch
Under Secretary for Export Administration
10:30 Congressional Presentation Representative Zoe Lofgren
11:00 Briefings The Wassenaar Arrangement and Ambassador Aaron's
Initiatives
James A. Lewis, Director
Office of Strategic Trade and Foreign Policy Controls
Bureau of Export Administration (BXA)
Michelle O'Neill
Executive Director to Ambassador David Aaron
International Trade Administration (ITA)
12:00 Lunch for Members
1:15 Briefings Private Sector Perspective on the Wassenaar Arrangement
John Gilmore, Co-Founder, EFF
Ira Rubenstein, Senior Corporate Attorney, Microsoft
2:00 Foreign Availability of Encryption Technology
Kevin McCurley, Ph.D., IBM
2:30 What's New In Commercial Crypto
Dr. Taher Elgamal, CEO, Securify, Inc.
Dr. John Atalla, Chairman, Tristrata, Inc.
4:00 Adjourn
I encourage anyone from the Bay Area crypto community who cares about
export controls on crypto to come observe the meeting, and participate
in the discussions in the hallways. Like attending hearings of the
Bernstein case, open your costume box and pull out the business drag
(suits & whatever businesswomen enjoy wearing these days). Our role
will be less to inform the meeting of anything in particular, and more
to inform them by our quiet presence that lots of significant people
care to watch exactly what they're doing with our civil rights.
After watching how it operates and thinking for a bit, you might have
some informed suggestions for the subcommittee, which can be sent to
them by email. As Thomas Pynchon said, "If they can get you to ask
the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." The
Commerce Dept may have been all too successful at getting the
subcommittee to focus on the wrong questions. (E.g. before the DES
Cracker announcement, they were debating whether to ask the President
to decontrol DES -- a useless and counterproductive action which of
course the government has just done.) Just as the cypherpunks came up
with some great questions to inform the Clipper debate, I'm sure we
can come up with some meaty questions for the subcommittee to chew on,
rather than the pap the gov't feeds them.
If you have any further questions about PECSENC or the meeting, please
contact:
Jason Gomberg
Encryption Policy Controls Division
Bureau of Export Administration
+1 202 482 1368
<JGOMBERG@bxa.doc.gov>
I hope to see you-all there.
John Gilmore, Electronic Frontier Foundation
PS: Also, don't forget the cypherpunks meeting the following day, in
rooms B1-B2 of the San Jose Convention Center, noon-6PM, Saturday 16Jan99.
Related url to check out:
http://
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Full Details:
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Time and Place:
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The time and place are to be determined and announced at this site or on
the canc0n mailing list, (TBA)
Features:
=-=-=-=-=
...are mostly TBA but generally, Videos, Speakers, Games and fun for
all also an equipment swap and the usual get together type stuff, this is
an informal con but suits won't be turned away, in fact we're hoping some
industry ppl will join us to speak on various topics if they can fit it
into their diaries, hence the open date/venue plans.
To sign up or get more info when it is available use the Canc0n99 mailing list
or send mail to cruciphux@dok.org with "canc0n99" as your subject and message
body. Your msg will be sent to our con mailbox.
Places to stay:
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We plan on booking rooms at various locations but you can also make your own
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the time gets nearer and clearer. Ditto for rides/transportation.
Our snail mail address is:
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4.0 Hackers and Crackers...ok we know the difference but what kind of dip?
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By Qubik
Originally posted on Bikkel's webboard
reprinted here coz I thought it was kewl. ;)
Posted by: qubik [webcache07p.cache.pol.co.uk] at 17:29:32 01/06/99
I often hear people saying things like, "Stupid fucking media, they don't
know the meaning of the word hacker!", and "Cracker you whore, hackers are
the good guys!" Well, I'm going to start writing, and we'll see what I come
up with.
-
In this day and age, we rely upon those who dedicate their lives to
distributing information among the masses. Our world would not be the way it
is today, without our constant supply of news and entertainment. Yet,
whenever they, the suppliers of this information, make a mistake, we launch
into an almighty rage.
One of the most common 'mistakes' made by the media, is the printing of
hacker, instead of cracker. We, the hackers, love to flame and complain at
the media for that mistake, yet I ask myself, why?
Did you know, that there are hundreds of thousands of 'hackers' out there
that would love to get their hands on us, the computer hackers? A long time
ago, probably before many of you 'hackers' were born (including myself), the
term hacker was used to describe someone who not craved information, but
craved understanding. We weren't hackers of computer systems, we were
hackers of the system. A system which can be anything that has some form of
input, process and output. The body for example, it's a system of systems,
including the nervous system, the digestive system and others. The solar
system, it again consists of many systems. And so, you can be a (system-)
hacker of anything from computers, to astronomy. So, as much as many of you
may dislike it, the cracker is never the less, a hacker just as much as you
or I. A cracker is a hacker of hacked knowledge. (Imagine this too, if your
annoyed of being on the same plain as crackers, what must crackers, hackers
of the cryptographic code, feel like!?)
I really don't think it's very mature of us to consider the term hacker as
solely ours, it's hard for the media to use the right terms, when in fact
they are the wrong term. We don't give the media enough slack, how many
times have any of you spoken to a reporter and tried to explain that there
are differences between hackers that obtain knowledge, and hackers that
exploit it!? How many people here have written texts to help a reporter
and/or editor to understand what being a computer hacker means? I'm willing
to bet, not many. Don't blame the media for something they can't understand,
something that we, the computer hackers, wont even help teach them about.
(Freedom of information my ass, you'd gladly help if you were true hackers!)
-
Hmm, I know, it could have been better, but in the twenty-odd minutes I
spent writing it, I'm pleased. I'd love to hear some feedback, who agrees,
who disagrees? And non of that shit trying to stop me from expressing my
point of view, because I'll only look at you and see an exploiter of the
hacker ethic.
-Qube
@HWA
4.1 "The Hacker; Sex symbol of the Millenium"
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By Qubik
(c) 1999 Qubik/HWA
We all know that it's cool to be a hacker. The attention we get from the
media and from our fellow associates is satisfying to say the least, but how
many of us actually use this to our advantage? I take a shit, a shave and
wash under my armpits and I'm ready to put my ability to the test..
At a recent party I was able to experience first-hand how being a hacker can
get the girls groping (literally) for your attention. In fact, you don't
even need to be a hacker to take advantage of this great exploit of the
opposite sex, you just need to be able to sound convincing and act cool.
How does it work then, what do you have to do? Well, you don't really have
to do anything, in fact it's best if you try not to do anything at all. It's
as easy as one, two, three..
First, your going to need to make sure you've got some non-hacker friends,
that means breaking out of your standard routine of sitting in front of a PC
all day with stacks of books on either side of you. You need to get out in
the real world, now I know that a lot of the readers will already have
real-world friends, so their already a third of the way there! Hell, you can
even use your computer knowledge to help out a couple of the really 'cool'
guys or gals at your school, college or uni, there's always someone who
hasn't got a clue. Help them out, go on, even if it means talking slowly
like a complete lamer and explaining things in layman terms. (I have faith
in you, you can do it.) Now, get to knows these outsiders, start to spend
some time with them and act like them. (Hey, you can hack during the
weekdays, try relaxing at the weekends.)
Now, you've got some real friends, sooner or later there's going to be a
party. Get yourself invited, it'll be easier than you think, trust me. And
there you have it, stage two completed, you've got cool friends and your
going to a cool party, now lets start pulling the girls. (Or boys, if your a
female reader.)
Your at the party, now what do you do!? Sit back, relax and have a drink!
People always fear that no one will talk to them, they will, especially if
you act like your having a bad time! I use this tactic a lot, girls just
can't help saying something. Sooner or later, someone will say that your
good with computers, or that your a hacker, they'll naturally be interested
and this'll be your key. Stage three, just wait and see. You could of
course, if your more sure of yourself, go up to someone. (Not recommended
for newbies. Heh.)
And when the girls/boys come, talk some shit about how you hacked into a
government server using a Sendmail exploit, or you know some a elite hacker
who used the SSHD exploit to transfer $100,000 from one bank account to
another!
So just how successful is this exploit? Well, I'm your stereotypical old
school hacker, with scruffy looks and too much on my mind, in one night,
three girls got to grips (ahem) with my abilities.
Just give it a go, from my experience hackers really turn the opposite (or
even same, if your into that kind of thing) sex on. And if you don't trust
me, think about this.. Don't other hackers turn you on!?
Qubik
(All you girly hackers out there, feel free to mail me at qubik@bikkel.com,
and send a picture.)
-EOF
@HWA
5.0 LoU vs China/Iraq: Legions Of The Underground cyber war
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This is in three parts and consists of 1) the IRC transcript
of the press conference held for HNN 2) the response to the
press conference by a global hacker coalition and 3) LoU's response
to the coalition. The story doesn't end here however and coverage
will continue in issue #5. - Ed
Irc Transcript
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(included with kind permission of hackernews.com)
* spacerog is the HNN representative in this transcript.
{start}
LoU Press Conferance IRC Transcript
This is a transcript of the press conferance held by LoU to
which HNN was invited. This transcript has been edited.
Server messages, and comments not relating to the topic
have been removed. No alterations have been made to
anyones statements.
Log file opened at: 12/28/98 19:08:31EST
*** Topic for #legions: The Meeting is now in session
*** Topic for #legions set by optiklenz on Monday,
December 28, 1998 20:03:08
#legions: spacerog @rootbot @NeatHack +Big|Feet +Zyk|on +barby__
+LordPsY +nawk @lothos +t3q @dethl0k +XeXeN +ShadoWalk @blakcloud
@kInGbOnG @datapleX +optiklenz @sreality +bronc_ @UnixP1mp @[havoc]
+headflux +_rash +m0f0 @dyslexia +elux_ +LordVaXen @DigiEbola +parkay
@DataShark
*** End of /NAMES list.
*** Mode is +pmtn
*** Channel created at Monday, December 7, 1998
6:30:08
optiklenz: is anyone logging?
DigiEbola: yes
dyslexia: yes
lothos: yeah
optiklenz: ok
optiklenz: at anyrate
DataShark: so am I.
Big|Feet: same here
NeatHack: log is on
[havoc]: shut the fuck up ppl
LordPsY: yup
blakcloud: go on
lothos: ssshhhhhh
optiklenz: today the news reported that two crackers were
being sentanced to death
optiklenz: i'll wait for everyone to finish their conversation..
NeatHack: sentanced to death ?? what press any link on
that info ?
DataShark: PUT to death.
dethl0k: that
DigiEbola: from what i saw, some guy mailed my ccmail at
work, from cnn
optiklenz: Well it's covered by HNN if you want to read an
article about it cnn wrote something
DataShark: I heard they were PUT to death.
dethl0k: s cruel
dethl0k: erm
DigiEbola: for 31000 dollars at that.
DigiEbola: china.
LordPsY: ok
optiklenz: What they did is wrong with out a doubt, but it was no more a
crime than what our President committed by perjuring himself
before the grand jury of the United States of America.
optiklenz: . It does not deserve the death penalty. The death penalty is
something that should be heldFor only those who commit the
most gruesome crimes that of murder, child rape,
optiklenz: and Being a Benedict Arnold
DataShark: There is a VERY big differance between putting two ppl to
death and lying to some ppl.
NeatHack: agree with optik
optiklenz: China's actions has shown superficial, and
damaging, and Iraq follows behind.
optiklenz: Iraq has treated human rights issues as poorly as China has.
DigiEbola: look at both of their goverments
optiklenz: A nation made up of starving people While their leader rest in
one of his 14 palaces taunting and parading his country men,
and above all Involving other countries in his sick escapades.
dyslexia: chine is estimated to have murdered approx 100 million ppl
internally since the communists came to power
optiklenz: . The Iraqi military has access to hydrogen bombs. What in the
world do they need hydrogen bombs for?
optiklenz: I don't think Something 2+ times the power of an atomic bomb
should be operated by anyone for whatever prospect.
NeatHack: ok but what is our realtion with them and thier miss governed
govrment ?
optiklenz: i'm getting to that
ShadoWalk: kan the man go on a dialog? please?
DataShark: WMD. they whant other countrys to fear them. same as the US.
NeatHack: koll
[havoc]: human rights!
optiklenz: We need to carry out what the government won't, and can't do.
NeatHack: optiklenz I agree.. We need to carry out what the government
won't, and can't do.
lothos: i agree optik
DigiEbola: burn them.
kInGbOnG: preach on brother optik
optiklenz: The government has made threats over China's current human
rights standing. They're cutting trade deals or they have in
the past.
optiklenz: Is it good enough?
DataShark: no.
optiklenz: to put it simply.. no it's not
DataShark: it is fucking sad
NeatHack: no
optiklenz: China doesn't give a fuck if we trade with them or not.
NeatHack: right
DataShark: erm..
optiklenz: They dont but we sure do
DigiEbola: thats the way we are.
optiklenz: We get most of our imports from china in the first place. Look
at the tag of Your shirt or any one of your household appliances
and tell me differently
NeatHack: cuase is shipper to produce their and ship to here...
NeatHack: that is one point.
LordPsY: sure its cheaper when children make ur shirts
optiklenz: What is a threat with out some sort of whacked out maneuver to
accommodate It, and bring intimidation The Chinese are all to
familiar with "intimidation"
ShadoWalk: ok optik.. so what are we going to do about it?
lothos: optik
lothos: my shirt was made in mexico
lothos: heh
optiklenz: The Chinese kill people when they want their point heard and
when it Comes down to it we all ultimately do that with out as
much as the pull Of a trigger or the push of a button. The U.S
cant say they've dealt a Fair hand either
optiklenz: There are enough problems in Washington as it is now.
zortin8r: shit
zortin8r: the meeting star?
DigiEbola: not to jump ahead, but can anyone be extrodited for screwing
with them?
optiklenz: When half the government officials perform on a pants down
agenda
dyslexia: wit the trial of the person who is accused of trying to start a
democratic party
dyslexia: Digi, there is no extradition agreement between the US and china
for computer crime
optiklenz: some action has to be taken by an outside group
NeatHack: outside group? like
optiklenz: not the FBI, the NSA (donut shortage? Not on your life)
optiklenz: and no not the fucken A Team
optiklenz: I'm sure they know who we are.
DigiEbola: well, if we are so hip to trade with them, they could pressure.
optiklenz: and if some compliance is not met I'm sure they'll know on a
first hand basis. I know what some of you are thinking at the
moment "has optik gone mad?! is optik on another one of his week
long drinking spree's?!" Answer: "No"
DataShark: well (playing the devils advocate) what GOOD can come of some
intravention buy a group already involved.. what about getting
some other ppl involved.. maybe the l0pht or HDF..
optiklenz: other people have been involved
zortin8r: someone bring me up-to-date what are we talking about?
optiklenz: look at the cdc, and the hongkong blondes..
optiklenz: zort you know the routine
optiklenz: pick up a log on your way out
zortin8r: k..
DataShark: the cDc no offence will not get involved.. (will they)?
bronc_: cDc + HKB = 0
DataShark: thats what I figured.
optiklenz: At anyrate I'm damn serious if we don't act against our nations
rights policies, and the nations of others we may not have the
right to do so as time progresses. Many years ago our Countries
four fathers wrote, "Governments are instituted among Men, Deriving
their powers from the consent of the governed; That whenever any
Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends it is the
"Right of The "People" to alter or to abolish it, and to institute
new Gove
DataShark: werd.. (no offense:) )
optiklenz: THEY GOVERN WHAT WE PUT IN OUR MOUTHS!
optiklenz: ! DAMMIT LETS NOT LET THEM DO THE SAME TO WHAT COMES OUT OF
OUR MOUTHS!
DataShark: optiklenz: are you saying we should act agenst the US govnt?
DFalcon: hey bola
DigiEbola: i do not like the fact that somewhere in this world, someone can
be put to death for something we do freely.
LordPsY: he
optiklenz: I bring up Popular Sovereignty this Is the basis that government
can exist and function only with the consent Of the governed (well
guess what. That's us). It is the people who holdpower it is the
people who are sovereign!
DataShark: I agree with lerfty.
optiklenz: Data> and if we do nothing it makes things better?
DigiEbola: it is about power, and who can wield it.
DataShark: I did not say that.
ShadoWalk: optiklenz:.. so we act against who?
DataShark: I cannot as a person sit idly by and watch someone be persicuted
for somthing that in reality IS NOT A CRIME
ShadoWalk: or whom
optiklenz: It is certainly seem'd like what you were insinuating
DigiEbola: we as a country are not going to shake up china, because we want
their shit
optiklenz: it rather
NeatHack: optiklenz you know I done the war in lebanon and I saw political
people going up and going down... I know in my opinion when $$$
come to play it is hard to stand but you can stand with nice
understanding .... I lived the situation for year POLICATAL WAR
AND REAL WAR ...
optiklenz: I'm very aware of that
zortin8r: 8
zortin8r: ack
NeatHack: when u can stop the $$$ game you win
DataShark: so what can we do? do we openly protest? do
we *laff* write our congressmen?
DigiEbola: and that does what?
DigiEbola: show me a straight congressman
[havoc]: true.
DigiEbola: ill take you to hell to ice skate.
NeatHack: ture
DataShark: heh
ShadoWalk: i think i know where he's goin with this.. i'm just waitin to
see if i'm right
[havoc]: mass hack.
optiklenz: I say this to you LoU members.It is our right our duty, and our
justice to pull through with a strike against Iraqi data systems
to do so we not only aid the people of those countries, but we
bring light to the subject at hand to nations everywhere. So I
ask you this if you are with me then we must act now, and we must
act fierce. We develop the hardware, and software they Utilize. We
code the security tools that they use we can just as easily
disassemble
DigiEbola: name the target.
blakcloud: i cant say much about this cuz im not inthe states but personally
i dont think it is right what is going on over there and that it
should stop... i dunno...
ShadoWalk: he said it
optiklenz: They've been fucking shit up for years well guess what? It's our
turn.
DataShark: WERD!
ShadoWalk: optik.. lemme get a modem and i'm in
NeatHack with you optik
[havoc]: damn straight.
DataShark: optiklenz: lets kick some ass.
dyslexia: ppl, the bottom line issue is human rights, that is something we
all must fight for
optiklenz: One serve deserves another, and I plan on playing to win. If one
official looks at things, and thinks to himself what he stands for
is wrong, and things do need to change then we not only dominate
the war, but we've already won the war. Even if things stay the
same if we could bring the awareness to people who are otherwise
dense in cameraperson with their actions then we're that much closer
kInGbOnG: wh00p!
DigiEbola: we have fought for it in that past.
optiklenz: Yeah but we are giving it a new twist
optiklenz: our idea of war is blowing shit up
NeatHack: optik what about our gov how they will act toward this ???
optiklenz: nothing good ever came out of killing someone
NeatHack: talking canada and US giv
[havoc]: information warfare!
optiklenz: we have nothing to do with the u.s government
ShadoWalk: so we take down iraq's databases
optiklenz: thats the plan
LordPsY: hmmm
_defiant: haxor iraqxor?
NeatHack: I know ... but when u do stuff to iraq they will take it as US
attacking iraq
DigiEbola: rm / -Rf and dont look back?
LordPsY: Thats a big thing
optiklenz: We have the right, and power not to kill, but to speak out, and
with our actions cripple an otherwise already broken enconomy. With
the trigger they use to kill innocent people I use the same trigger
to shut them down, and not only denounce one man, but the entire
communist government of china, and fascist rule of Iraq.
ShadoWalk: and therefor erase all their amassed knowladge of biochemical
warfare.. and deliver a message at the sdame time
dyslexia: optik, you have considered that if we become pain enuff to iraq or
china, they may choose direct intervention with ourselves as the
targets
lothos: iraq == .iq i think
DigiEbola: yah
DigiEbola: they are not beyond hitmen.
optiklenz: Dyslexia> yes
dyslexia: beyond, that is their only recourse
NeatHack: ok optik imagine we are able to shut all IRAQ system what will affect
the ECOnomy ,, ?? or the political GAmE ... or the Shit War ??
rootbot: [sreality] rootbot! rootbot! gimme sum! gimme sum, sh1zz!
DataShark: erm.
NeatHack: how the damage will affect them ?
DigiEbola: how good can a iraqi admin be?
optiklenz: haha
optiklenz: Thats what Im saying
ShadoWalk: bet i could take him..heh
[havoc]: so optik
optiklenz: We need to make it clear that killing people (innocent lives) is
not the only resolve.
DataShark: keep in mind we HAVE troops over there (the US) I have friends
there.lets walk lightly and carry and BIG FUCKING STICK if we do
this.
[havoc]: the plan for an attack.
spacerog: Are you going to operate under the LoU name or form a new group?
dyslexia: Digi, most of the arab countries and israel have much experience
at dealing with hostile attacks, both politacally, physical and
data wise
DigiEbola: their systems are reputably old
optiklenz: Data> that's the plan
[havoc]: should we hop over to europe somewhere and launch ? or from within
the us
datapleX: lothos!
datapleX: bah
DigiEbola: dys
datapleX: oh
DigiEbola: true
ShadoWalk: so optik.. are we going to wait until this rash thing is over?
NeatHack: Well guy I think you are missing the TARGET here... buy shutting
couple of server of ALL the net in iraq they will not understand I
think ?
DigiEbola: they use propoganda like wild fire
XeXeN: yes
ShadoWalk: so as not to piss off all the other muslim nations?
NeatHack: U must affact them at ecomiy level
NeatHack: or political level
dyslexia: neathack, the unfortunate reality of economic sanctions etc are
lost on the leaders, they dont suffer, only the people do
DigiEbola: it would be nice if we had loyal iraqi hackers
DigiEbola: working for us
ShadoWalk: i saw we take out every military database we kan find.. rm / -rf
it
NeatHack: that is true dysl
NeatHack: then how to affect them ?
lothos: spacerogue brings up a good point
lothos: do we do this as LoU or what?
dyslexia: bring them to the attention of the world, simply as otik says
bronc_: sheesh..
NeatHack: that is an idea that can affect the, u see.
.ShadoWalk> i saw we take out every military database we kan find.. rm /
-rf it
dyslexia: optik at least
Big|Feet: hrm.. on the defcon mailing list a while back someone brought up
the idea "why not attack their systems" and it was argued that they
don't have much connection to the net (if any) so what systems are
you attacking?
DataShark: what is iraqi's top level?
DigiEbola: well, you know nobody likes a smart ass, and as soon as one of
us walks thru one of their servers and posts, they are going to be
PISSED.
lothos: .iq i believe
dyslexia: heh, they will have links allright, but the majority will be
through sympathetic arab countries in the case of iraq
_defiant: SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME WHATS GOING ON
_defiant: heh
DigiEbola: defiant
DigiEbola: we are going to war.
ShadoWalk: shyt
DigiEbola: heh.
DataShark: DO we do this as LoU or what?
LordPsY: hehe
DataShark: DO we do this as LoU or what?
LordPsY: ah hes back
DigiEbola: i want china.
optiklenz: no
optiklenz: we dont do this as anyone
LordPsY: so
DataShark: anonymous?
optiklenz: no names will be left no handles or affiliations
optiklenz: the chinese embassy has us under investigation
DataShark: what a supprise.
ShadoWalk: whooooooohooooooo
datapleX: heh
ShadoWalk: lets get rowdy
_defiant: werd
[havoc]: information warfare at its best.
_defiant: heh
NeatHack: _defiant :the Big image is :optik come up with the idea to
attack iraq and china since they are soing shit with them
population....
datapleX: uhm...that is really messin' w/ some shit
_defiant: NeatHack: didn't everyone say that before heh
DigiEbola: oh great
dyslexia: ppl, action against governments who ignore the rights of and
pretty much enslave their ppl is good in my book, buts it's not
just limited to iraq and china
NeatHack: and we kind agreed what we are trying to figure out what damage
can be cuased ...
DigiEbola: some ninja fucker is going to hunt us all down
ShadoWalk: 6.4 gigz of kiq azz
datapleX: heh
optiklenz: one thing I want everyone to know is that we only operate if we
can do so without risk
_defiant: ok, lets talk about something in a public chan, then try and be
anonomous
_defiant: makes sense
optiklenz: as i said i have no problem working with a client on his network
while blasting on chinese communist
NeatHack: make sence...
DigiEbola: defiant, nothing on irc is anonymous
_defiant: Digi: i was pointing out the irony in it
DigiEbola: _defiant: yes yes
dyslexia: heh, indeed digi, that is true
optiklenz: but I would not want to indulge any member into something that
would end up ruining his/her life
zortin8r: its not like irc is encrypted or anthing..
DataShark: HAHA
optiklenz: If we attack Chinese systems the attacks need to originate from
china. Same goes for Iraqi networks.
DigiEbola: well, efnet has services specially for the purpose of watching
optiklenz: heh
ShadoWalk: optiklenz: i may be a bit lame.. but i learn hella quik and i'll
do it reguardless of consequences
NeatHack: and how u do so originate the attack from china??
zortin8r: has anyone here _ever_ encountered and Iraqi
network? cause i have never seen one before..
NeatHack: u mean physicaly in china ?
optiklenz: do the damage from a chinese network
spacerog: I assume that HNN was mailed because you wanted this publiciced,
yes?
Big|Feet: [optiklenz]: i never even knew iraq had access to
the net.. what systems to you plan go nailing so to speak
optiklenz: spacerog it's your call
optiklenz: Big> iraqi has networks
DigiEbola: everyone has networks
optiklenz: just because a majority are internal does not mean they are
sasfe
d4hp: herm ...
optiklenz: safe rather
Big|Feet: yes
DataShark: optiklenz: do we REALLY want alot of attention draw to this
before we do some damage?
zortin8r: i think me and BigFeet are feeling the same thing here.. where
the hell are the iraqi networks?
spacerog: opti: cool
Big|Feet: like i was saying before
_defiant hides and had nothing to do with it ;)
dyslexia: optik, for access to iraq we will likely need to look in
sympathetic arab nations
Big|Feet: the public is not allowed access to the internet in iraq
DigiEbola: Big|Feet: not so
optiklenz: yeah
DigiEbola: Big|Feet: there are a few
blakcloud: very few
optiklenz: whatever we can do to keep sadaam from going on the net for his
daily dose of kiddy porn
DigiEbola: matter of fact
Big|Feet: probly.. but censored
DigiEbola: during the bombings, there was some on
datapleX: heh
NeatHack agree with that optik
NeatHack: roflllll daily dose of kiddy porn
Big|Feet: hrm.. saddam's pron stash
DataShark: haha
DigiEbola: hmm, ya know, if we upload a shitload of kiddie
pr0n to his servers
datapleX: hahaha
dyslexia: thats whta they are hiding from the arms
inspectors, lol
zortin8r: haha
DataShark: ok..
DigiEbola: i guess the government will have to arrest him
ShadoWalk: heh
_defiant: optik: i agree with it all again, but like, i don't
want to get arrested again
DigiEbola: yah, my new years resolution is that i dont have to mess with
any kind of law enforcement this year
[havoc]: cover your ass and the chances of you getting caught are reduced.
optiklenz: If they want to fight we stand steadfast with what we believe in,
and are ready To strap on our armor and take defense. LoU was
established over 7 years ago As a research team, and we also called
ourselves mercenaries. "We are ready to Commence, and take partition
in electronic warfare if ever requested . The attack will go on for
one Week. The time will be extended if needed . If anyone disagrees
on the actions We are about to take let me know why. I
DigiEbola: you hit a server, you better root it
_defiant: havoc: i was arrested for something i never did before, make no sense
optiklenz: hshs
optiklenz: def> yeah that happens a lot around here
_defiant: optiklenz: i'm still down with it as long as we cause no wars etc
DigiEbola: lets tear them a new electronic asshole.
optiklenz: it's common to hair "what network? computer? huh whats that?"
over here at the office
optiklenz: s/hair/hear
sreality: #1.. I doubt iraq actually has military databases
optiklenz: geez maybe i am drunk and just dont know it yet
[havoc]: :)
Big|Feet: they have to have something
zortin8r: if iraq does have military databases and networks, how do we go
about finding them?
_defiant: DataShark: hah, no, they were serious about it
DigiEbola: if it wears a turban, and crawls in sand, root it.
sreality: well
_defiant: it was like
_defiant: YOUR UDNER ARREST
sreality: best thing to start with
_defiant: heh
DataShark: ohhh I have one question.. can some teach me howto hack? Im
running into truble when it says to press the any key...
sreality: is the iraq tld
sreality: scan the shizz outa that
_defiant: and some police woman was frisking me
optiklenz: this is just recreation
optiklenz: heh
sreality: then hand probe the boxes
sreality: there cant be many
DigiEbola: DataShark: i removed the any key long time ago....
DataShark: DAMNIT lerfty.
headflux is idle, automatically dead [bX(l/on p/off)]
optiklenz: never once have they sent a chick down here
optiklenz: basterds.
sreality: then goto any nations that surround iraq
Big|Feet: what any any chinese governet buildings in the us i bet they
have some info
DataShark: optiklenz: haha
_defiant: optiklenz: yeah, ccu guy and 2 chicks
Big|Feet: or iraq or that matter
sreality: hey.
sreality: umm you forgot something
d4hp: tee hee
sreality: the iraq databases are gonna be in their language
sreality: and umm
DataShark: sreality: HAHAH oops..
sreality: none of use has charater support for that
optiklenz: sreality> thats what altavista translator's for
optiklenz: heh
sreality: so how are we gonna know what that is
Big|Feet: altavista
d4hp: yeh ..
Big|Feet: hehehe
ShadoWalk: oh yea.. i learn hella quik
d4hp: ok there bud
optiklenz: haha
sreality: the altavista translater doesnt do middle-eastern
languages
ShadoWalk: ok zort..heh
_defiant: zortin8r: YOU TELL HIM HEH
NeatHack: sreality> so how are we gonna know what that
is NO PROBLEM
datapleX: uhm...me to. I would like to try to get into LoU at
this time to.
sreality: becuz those languages are like
NeatHack: I SPEAK ARABIC
DataShark: sreality: heh well that is somein we will havta
work on..
sreality: scribbles
d4hp: Im from Iraq
DigiEbola: optiklenz: how would you like this done? hunting
parties or completely independent?
spacerog: Any objections with using the LoU name in a
story for HNN? If I say "A bunch of hackers declared
war..." no one will listen.
DataShark: anyone speek raganise?
NeatHack: sreality> so how are we gonna know what that is I am
orginaly LEbanon
sreality: BLAHDALKHDAKHJD DIAHIASHIDHA OJIEIAUIDE
MBDOMADIJWE!
sreality: hahaa
optiklenz: ok will if anyone has any objections they have
until 8:00 pm pst
d4hp: as a matter of fact, Im from the iraq military
NeatHack u have a BIG arabic resource.,. GUYS ..
DataShark: IM in.
DigiEbola: data says he is in.
sreality: its a semi good idea
d4hp: boooo!
sreality: but it has some faults
DigiEbola: so thats 2 ppl, and a shitload of terminals
blakcloud: hehe
DFalcon: what ya guys talking about ?
t3q: datapleX: w3rd.
sreality: #1.. we need FIRST OFF some iraqie translators
DigiEbola: we also have osu here, so we can work anonymously
datapleX: werd
sreality: #2.. we need to probe the shit outa all middle-eastern
countries
NeatHack: DAM read what I said sreality> #1.. we need FIRST OFF some
iraqie translators
DigiEbola: i want lists
optiklenz: ok well
[havoc]: if we are going to do this with a serious mind, we need to
gather together and find specific targets, and take them out.. in a
team effort.
*zortin8r* wow.
optiklenz: I'll be going through possible targets
DigiEbola: if its buried in the sand, i will set up a mail
somewhere for it to be sent to
sreality: NeatHack: so like what, your gonna translate it all,
lebanon is partially french speaking too
[havoc]: this ballz out attack wont work without a plan.
LordPsY: #3 We should get some more infos bout the Iraqi networks
NeatHack: sreality don;lt worry I will handle this part
bronc_: so we are going at attack Iraqi networks?
NeatHack: translation is ON ME>..
optiklenz: havoc> yeah this was just to see if we should go
through with something
DataShark: NeatHack: ok.. you deal with the translater and
the char set..
optiklenz: I'm not playing cat and mouse here so if we go in
we go in prepared without risk
ShadoWalk: i'm following dtatplex
optiklenz: or we all go back to our jobs and coding
sreality: grr
DigiEbola: all i know is, one character i understand of the
iraqi alphabet is #
Big|Feet: i should would like to see the whole plan .. should
be beautiful
NeatHack: I cna have window in arabic linux I do not know ??
dethl0k: jobs and coding ;p
sreality: its not safe to rely on ONE person
DigiEbola: if i see a #, its all good.
[havoc]: we need to make a key'd channel just for this
purpose. so we can concentrate on the attacks.
dethl0k: j/k
sreality: we need two
sreality: what if theres alot of shit to translate
spacerog: Any plans to cordinate with the Hong kong
Blondes? They are supposed to still be in operation.
d4hp: tee hee
datapleX: _defiant: I was told to bring it up at the meeting...
d4hp: erm..
d4hp: like...
NeatHack: I can have resource .. sreality
optiklenz: spacerog> As of now I have not been in contact with any
of the HKB members
NeatHack: well let us not put this as WALL
_defiant: spacerog: not a bad idea, we should also talk to cDc to see
if theres anything we can do more "legal" together
optiklenz: but I've talked to a few before
lothos: we have #!LoU
DigiEbola: well, it would be nice to have some help
sreality: fuckg
sreality: okay
sreality: #1
sreality: anyone whos not a meber
sreality: err member
optiklenz: bronc> i'll email you something I got from a supposed "HKB" member
sreality: should get the fuck outa here
sreality: grr
DataShark: optiklenz: cc that to me..
bronc_: o i h
optiklenz: i dont plan on taking long with this attack
_defiant: optiklenz: sort fucking legions.org out as well i
can't get ssh to login
bronc_: I was told this by a reporter
spacerog: Ok, I'm gone. Thanks for the info. I should have a story up
tomorrow morning
bronc_: dunno if it was true
optiklenz: defiant> what version are you using?
spacerog: If anyone has anything to ad send me mail at contact@hackernews.com
DigiEbola: i lub j00 spacerog
DataShark: spacerog: later.
optiklenz: talk to you later space..
Log file closed at: 12/28/98 19:53:08EST
{end}
Jan 9th 12:00 GMT a global hackers coalition released this joint
press release:
***//
LoU STRIKE OUT WITH INTERNATIONAL COALITION OF HACKERS:
A JOINT STATEMENT BY 2600, THE CHAOS COMPUTER
CLUB, THE CULT OF THE DEAD COW, !HISPAHACK, L0PHT
HEAVY INDUSTRIES, PHRACK AND PULHAS
Date: 7.1.1999
An international coalition of hackers strongly condemns the
Legion of the Underground's (LoU) recent "declaration of
war" against the governments of Iraq and the People's
Republic of China. Citing human rights violations and other
repressive measures the LoU declared their intention to
disrupt and disable Internet infrastructures in Iraq and
China. In a decision that was more rash than wise, the LoU
will do little to alter existing conditions and much to
endanger the rights of hackers around the world.
We - the undersigned - strongly oppose any attempt to use
the power of hacking to threaten or destroy the information
infrastructure of a country, for any reason. Declaring "war"
against a country is the most irresponsible thing a hacker
group could do. This has nothing to do with hacktivism or
hacker ethics and is nothing a hacker could be proud of.
Frank Rieger of the CCC said, "Many hacker groups don't
have a problem with Web hacks that raise public awareness
about human rights violations. But we are very sensitive to
people damaging networks and critical systems in repressive
regimes or anywhere else. The police and intelligence
communities regard hacking as seditious. It is quite possible
now that hackers - not only in totalitarian states - could be
jailed or executed as 'cyberterrorists' for the slightest
infraction of the law."
"It is shortsighted and potentially counterproductive,"
added Reid Fleming of the cDc. "One cannot legitimately
hope to improve a nation's free access to information by
working to disable its data networks."
"Though we may agree with LoU that the atrocities in China
and Iraq have got to stop, we do not agree with the
methods they are advocating," said Space Rogue of the
L0pht.
Emmanuel Goldstein of 2600 said: "This kind of threat, even
if made idly, can only serve to further alienate hackers from
mainstream society and help to spread the misperceptions
we're constantly battling. And what happens when someone
in another country decides that the United States needs to
be punished for its human rights record? This is one door
that will be very hard to close if we allow it to be opened."
Governments worldwide are seeking to establish cyberspace
as a new battleground for their artificial conflicts. The LoU
has inadvertently legitimized this alarmist propaganda. With
its dramatic announcement the LoU played into the hands
of policy makers who want complete control over the
Internet and are looking for reasons to seize it. If hackers
solicit recognition as paramilitary factions then hacking in
general will be seen as an act of war. Ergo, hackers will be
viewed as legitimate targets of warring states.
Strategic combat planning in the United States and among
other nations has reached the point where real-world cases
are needed to justify assigned budgets. The LoU is
providing this real-world case now. We believe that the LoU
should carefully investigate the idea of declaring "war"
against China and Iraq. Was it planted with them by
someone with different interests in mind other than
advancing human rights considerations?
The signatories to this statement are asking hackers to
reject all actions that seek to damage the information
infrastructure of any country. DO NOT support any acts of
"Cyberwar." Keep the networks of communication alive.
They are the nervous system for human progress.
Signed (7.1.1999):
2600 (http://www.2600.com)
Chaos Computer Club (http://www.ccc.de)
Cult of the Dead Cow (http://www.cultdeadcow.com)
!Hispahack (http://hispahack.ccc.de)
L0pht (http://www.l0pht.com)
Phrack (http://www.phrack.com)
Pulhas (http://p.ulh.as/)
several members of the Dutch Hackers Community (contact
Rop Gonggrijp, rop@xs4all.nll)
Toxyn (http://www.toxyn.org/)
***//
Supporting documents:
http://www.hackernews.com/archive.html?122998.html -
***//
The original declaration of war by LoU
Legion of Underground's response
LoU - Legions of the Underground
Joint Statement 7 Jan 1999
The Legions of the Underground (LoU) group was
established some seven years ago as a group who
researched, explored and learned about technology. LoU
has always believed in sharing what they have learned with
the general public, which is why we release our e-zine Keen
Veracity, and which is why we try and promote a positive
image towards the general public.
As of late, some of our members have taken it upon
themselves to express their opinions on the state of
conditions in China by some high profile 'cracks' and the
defacing of some Chinese government run web servers.
While the LoU supports and stands by their members
actions and, as the rest of the hacking community, agree
that there are serious problems that need to be addressed
in China, the statement that "the LoU wishes to declare
'war' on China or Iraq's internal information networks in
order to destroy, damage or harm their computers,
systems, or networks" is totally false. The LoU does not
support the damaging of other nations computers, networks
or systems in any way, nor will the LoU use their skills,
abilities or connections to take any actions against the
systems, networks or computers in China or Iraq which may
damage or hinder in any way their operations.
Although this may sound contrary to what the popular
media has been presenting, this is a united declaration from
the LoU and this is the groups standing on this matter. If
you refer to the second Wired.com article on the second
series of penetrations into Chinas Internet/Intranet, you
can clearly see that an LoU member, in an interview with
Niall McKay, clearly states that the second series of
penetrations were done independently, and were not done
as part of any LoU effort. After a series of meetings, LoU
decided it "may, in the future, take actions against other
Chinese systems" if other actions, like the one against Lin
Hai, continued, but then they may only be actions along
the same line as the simple protests taken by others in the
past.
From this point, the LoU has been, for the most part, silent.
We have taken no further actions against China, or any
direct actions against Iraq.
With the size of LoU, numbering some 20 plus members, and
our loose organization, we realize it may be hard to verify if
someone is in fact a member, which is what may of lead to
the rash of LoU imposters who have been issuing false
statements regarding us and our actions. There have been
several well known, national publications, as well as online
and hacker culture sites that have been getting a flood of
reports from people who say they are in LoU claiming to
have taken 'such and such' actions, or giving interviews, or
even saying they have allied them selves with the LoU.
These are all false. There are also new groups who are
'cracking' innocent sites in China, then reporting these and
claming they are doing this in "conjuncture with" or for the
"LoU effort". We are in no way associated with these
groups what-so-ever.
In summary, on behalf of all LoU members, let me state that
we (LoU) have taken no harmful or damaging actions
against either Chinese or Iraqi networks or systems, or any
other system or network in any location across the world,
and we have no plans to do so. In addition, the LoU has not
allied with, and is currently not working or affiliated with
any other group or activity. We in the LoU hold strong
integrity and a strong code of ethics, and wish nothing
more then for fair, equal treatment for all people, and want
nothing but a positive light shed upon this for the entire
hacking community in general.
The Legions of the Underground (LoU):
Bah, DataShark, Debussy, dethl0k, DigiEbola, dyslexia,
[havoc], IsolationX, Kanuchsa, KingbOng, Lothos,
MetalTongue, m0f0, NeatHack, OptikLenz, Sreality, Zortin8r,
Zyklon, nawk, Mnemonic, and Bronc Buster (some members
wished to go unnamed or anonymous)
www.legions.org
EOF
***//
@HWA
5.1 Spies in the wires 9e99
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[From the ISN list.]
Forwarded From: William Knowles <erehwon@kizmiaz.dis.org>
Originally From: Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>
Originally To: aucrypto@suburbia.net
Secret plan for spies to bug PCs
By DAN TEBBUTT [The Australian]
13-jan-99
PERSONAL computers would become police spy stations under secret proposals
put to the Federal Government by a former deputy director of ASIO.
The Australian Federal Police, ASIO and the National Crime Authority would
be empowered to alter software to turn PCs into covert listening devices,
according to the 1996 report by one-time spy chief Gerald Walsh.
The report also recommends changes to the Commonwealth Crimes Act to allow
police and government investigators to hack into computer systems for
evidence.
While Mr Walsh called for public discussion of his proposals, the report
was withdrawn by the Attorney-General's Department. But a copy of the
96-page document was obtained last week by Internet privacy campaigners
Electronic Frontiers Australia and released to The Australian.
A spokesman for Attorney-General Daryl Williams confirmed last night that
Mr Walsh's recommendations were under discussion but the report was "just
one element" of policy being considered.
He would not say whether the controversial recommendations would be acted
on through legislation.
Mr Walsh warns that widespread use of PC-based data scrambling is a big
concern for law enforcement.
Criminals were already using computer encryption - programs that encode
data so it cannot be intercepted - to prevent police from monitoring phone
calls and e-mail.
Widespread encryption to scramble sensitive data would make crimes harder
to prove in court, Mr Walsh warns.
"The principle of non self-incrimination may well represent the polite end
of the possible range of responses," the report says.
Mr Walsh's plan would clear the way for police to eavesdrop on computer
conversations at the source.
A "target computer may be converted into a listening device" that could
seek out passwords and other private communications without the PC owner's
knowledge.
EFA spokesman Greg Taylor said authorities might set up Trojan horse
software that would record all PC activity, including passwords and
e-mail, before encryption.
"If you have access to someone's PC and you change their software you can
do anything you want," said Mr Taylor.
"If it's connected to a network such as the Internet the PC could transmit
data to another site."
Australian Council for Civil Liberties president Terry O'Gorman said the
proposals would be a worrying extension to police wiretap powers which
were already over-used.
"We are concerned about the low level of protection in relation to current
judicial warrants for telephone eavesdropping," Mr O'Gorman said.
Labor information technology spokeswoman Senator Kate Lundy said "the
whole issue of encryption is being used as a lever to justify further
invasions of privacy".
-o-
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By Gerard Knapp
InternetNews.com Australia Correspondent
[January 4, 1999--SYDNEY] Law enforcement agencies in Australia
ought to be able to "hack" into corporate computer systems and
change proprietary software to enable monitoring of
communications, according to a 1996 report which had been
censored by the Australian government but recently uncovered by a
university student.
The report also suggested that technology vendors could also be
recruited to help modify software or hardware that they installed
at a company's premises.
However, Australian police agencies have not taken the advice,
opting instead to concentrate their energies on interception of
telecommunications by tapping into the systems of Internet
service providers (ISPs).
The report, entitled "Review of Policy relating to Encryption
Technologies," was prepared for the Federal Attorney-General's
Department by Gerard Walsh, a former deputy director-general of
the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO). It
had been released in 1997 with some passages omitted after a
request by civil liberties group Electronic Freedom Australia.
Greg Taylor, chair of the EFA's Crypto Committee, said a
university student in Hobart had discovered an archival copy of
the so-called "Walsh report" with the censored material intact.
Censored recommendations included giving police and espionage
agencies "the authority to 'hack,' under warrant, into a
nominated computer system as a necessary search power," and "the
authority to alter proprietary software so that it may provide
additional and unspecified features." These additional features
might include "the introduction of other commands, such as
diversion, copy, send, [or to] dump memory to a specified site,"
the report said.
The agencies might need to obtain the "cooperation of
manufacturers or suppliers" to help with the insertion of these
extra software agents.
"When manufacturers or suppliers are satisfied the modification
has no discernible effect on function, they may consent to assist
or acquiesce in its installation," Walsh said in the report.
The establishment of a separate agency to perform such work would
approach AUS$500 million, Walsh estimated, but could be performed
by the existing Defence Signals Directorate.
The report recommended changes to the 1914 Crimes Act and the
1979 Australian Federal Police Act, but the only legislative
changes in this area were made over a year ago in the
Telecommunication Legislation Amendment Act 1997.
This act enabled law enforcement agencies to access
communications directly from ISPs, and for the resulting cost to
be incurred by the ISPs. The non-censored version of the report
is available on the EFA's Web site.
@HWA
5.2 Schoolgirl's can hax0r too
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[From the ISN list.]
Forwarded From: Adam Bisaro <adbisaro@dg.dgtech.com>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_254000/254236.stm
Making your email secret is now 30 times faster, but the innovation has
come not from a multinational computer computer but a schoolgirl from
Blarney, Ireland.
Sarah Flannery, 16, has developed a brand new mathematical procedure for
encrypting internet communication.
"The algorithm is based on matrices," her father told BBC News Online. Dr
David Flannery is a mathematics lecturer at Cork Institute of Technology,
Ireland.
"Sarah has a very good understanding of the mathematical principles
involved, but to call her a genius or a prodigy is overstated and she
doesn't want that herself.
"She's a normal young girl, who likes basketball and going out with her
friends."
International job offers
But her number-crunching feat is undoubtedly remarkable and won her the
top prize at the Irish Young Scientists and Technology Exhibition.
International job and scholarship offers have flooded in, said Dr
Flannery. Last year, Ms Flannery's cryptography skill took her to Fort
Worth, Texas, as the winner of an Intel prize.
Even when high security levels are required, her code can encrypt a letter
in just one minute - a widely used encryption standard called RSA would
take 30 minutes. "But she has also proven that her code is as secure as
RSA," says Dr Flannery. "It wouldn't be worth a hat of straw if it was
not."
Ms Flannery currently has a bad cold and has not had time to consider the
advice of the judges to patent the code. "She wouldn't mind being rich but
she wants to stress the great joy that the project has given her," says Dr
Flannery. She may publish the work to make it freely available to all.
Her code is called Cayley-Purser after Arthur Cayley, a 19th century
Cambridge expert on matrices, and Michael Purser, a cryptographer from
Trinity College, Dublin, who provided inspiration for Ms Flannery.
-o-
Subscribe: mail majordomo@repsec.com with "subscribe isn".
Today's ISN Sponsor: Internet Security Institute [www.isi-sec.com]
@HWA
5.3 Phraudulant Philth
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Forwarded From: jeradonah lives <jeradonah@juno.com>
http://www.newscientist.com/cgi-bin/pageserver.cgi?/ns/990109/newsstory2.html
Filthy business
Jeff Hecht
Fraudsters are exploiting a security loophole in banking systems that lets
them charge credit card users for fictitious visits to pay-per-view
Internet sites. The scam leaves victims having to explain themselves to
spouses who wrongly believe they have been visiting pornographic sites.
The swindlers bill their victims' credit cards a small monthly amount,
typically $19.95, for visits to sites they've never seen, according to
John Faughnan, a software developer in St Paul, Minnesota, who
investigated the scam after falling prey to it. Since Faughnan set up a
website to publicise the fraud, more than 200 other victims have contacted
him from countries including Japan, Britain, Australia, Brazil, Sweden,
South Korea and France.
Credit card verification is supposed to require a valid name, a valid card
number and a corresponding expiry date, says Don Zimmerman of the Boston
office of the Secret Service, which investigates credit card fraud in the
US. Mail-order firms may also check if the delivery address matches that
of the account.
However, a spokeswoman for US Bank of Minneapolis says that firms who make
small recurrent charges ask banks to waive these steps because repeatedly
asking for expiry dates takes time and annoys customers. But this opens
the door to crooks who can obtain valid card numbers.
Card numbers alone provide some security because the digits must pass a
numeric test, called a checksum, but software that generates valid numbers
is also available on the Net. Most numbers generated don't match valid
accounts, but those that do can be used to make charges that show up on
the victim's bill. Racketeers can also steal card numbers used in valid
transactions, and some lists have been posted on the Net. Extra validation
steps can block these fraudulent charges, but Zimmerman says that
additional security " does cost money, and there's always a bottom line"
for banks, card processors and vendors.
Faughnan blames the fraud on companies that process charges for viewing
online pornography. Because many people who browse for porn give fake card
numbers, processors expect high credit charge reject rates and fail to
investigate. Most fraudulent charges list the same few vendor names, and
he suspects they come from just one card processing group. The fraudsters
must generate some numbers randomly, because charges have appeared on
unused accounts, but they may also have stolen customer card numbers from
pornographers.
A spokeswoman for US Bank, where Faughnan holds the account that the
fraudsters billed, says: "If we know a merchant has a lot of fraudulent
transactions, we immediately report it to the proper authorities." She
added that customers are not liable for fraudulent transactions.
[From New Scientist, 9 January 1999]
@HWA
5.4 Co-Co gets busted. "NSA is Mee mee boh bay" (Furbish for 'very worried')
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"u-nye will noh-lah with noo-loo but this is no loo-loo." (you will dance
with joy but this is no joke) - Ed
Never heard of Co-co? sure you have, hell I own one, didn't you check
out the 'Hacking the furby' page yet?? who knows what great secrets lurk
in these cute but lethal little furballs.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid%5F254000/254094.stm
World: Americas
Furby toy or Furby spy?
BBC Webnews Jan 13th'99
Furbies - their lips aren't sealed
Thousands of families across the United States could be harbouring
potentially dangerous double agents - also known as Furbies.
The Furby, a highly sought-after Christmas toy in 1998, is now a
high-ranking public enemy and has been banned from National Security Agency
premises in Maryland.
Anyone at the NSA coming across a Furby, or a crack team of Furbies
infiltrating the building has been asked to "contact their Staff Security
Office for guidance".
Immediate and real danger
An allegedly classified NSA internal memo alerted other agents to
the Furby's secret embedded computer chip which allows every Furby
to utter 200 words - 100 in English and 100 in "Furbish."
Because of its ability to repeat what it hears, Security Agency officials
were worried "that people would take them home and they'd start talking
classified,'' according to one anonymous Capitol Hill source.
Photographic, video and audio recording equipment are all prohibited items
for employees at the NSA.
"This includes toys, such as 'Furbys,' with built-in recorders that
repeat the audio with synthesized sound to mimic the original signal," the
Furby Alert read.
Furbys have ears
A Furby can be recognised immediately by its huge pink ears separated by
tufts of hair. It otherwise resembles an owl, with a beak and big, round eyes.
But the furry, cute exterior is merely a shrewd cover for more
covert activities.
Thought to have come into circulation in May last year, the elusive
creatures dodged thousands of weary parents over Christmas, desperately
scouring shop shelves to find one to take home.
Now, the 13-cm gremlin-like operatives are wanted again, this time for spying.
The fate of any Furbys uncovered at the NSA is as yet unknown,
presumed top secret.
Related links:
http://www.phobe.com/furby/ The Furby Autopsy
A captured furby is dissected ...
http://www.phobe.com/furby/hacking.html
And hacking the Furby ...;) r/c anyone?
@HWA
6.0 l0phtcrack 2.5 exposes weaknesses in Windows95/98 authentication scheme
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"During testing of the L0phtCrack 2.5 SMB packet capture tool to capture
SMB challenge/response authentication, it became apparent to the
L0phtCrack development team that Windows 95/98 issues the exact same
challenge for each authentication for a period of approximately 15
minutes. During this time an attacker can connect to a network share
as the user whose authentication was captured."
Check it out at the l0pht.
http://www.l0pht.com/
@HWA
6.1 l0pht security tool monitors the *nix /tmp directory
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mudge releases tool for auditing unix temporary directories
1.8.1999
Having noticed a plethora of problems in temporary holding and
scratch areas on various unix platforms, Dr. Mudge releases a tool
to help analyze and log these problems. As usual, it has definate
white-hat, grey-hat, and black-hat uses. The source and tool are
free.
http://www.l0pht.com/advisories/tmp-advisory.txt
L0pht Security Tool and (mini)Advisory
Advisory released Jan 8 1999
Application: A tool designed to monitor directory activity, copy
transient files based upon regular expression matching, syslog upon
seeing links created, etc. etc.
Severity: Just about every OS out there is replete with programs that
insecurely handle files in publicly accesible temporary directories.
Author: mudge@l0pht.com
http://www.l0pht.com/advisories.html
6.2 Cyberspace Underwriter's Labs
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Great piece, check it out (excerpt is included here from the wrap-up -Ed)
"... As a hacker, is the relationship between the hot-shot safe crackers
and the UL an attractive one you would be interested in? Is the UL listing
process for installations sufficient? Will it encounter problems unforeseen
by this article? As an insurer, am I missing part of the picture; are
companies actually insuring their computer systems and data to mitigate
Loss or liability? As a manufacturer do you foresee problems with the UL
model being imposed on computer security products? As an end user do you
feel that computer security is important? ..."
http://www.l0pht.com/cyberul.html
@HWA
6.3 Local hospital makes the jump to wireless PBX integration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
By sAs72
I was in a local hospital and picked up a copy of their zine to leaf
through while waiting for my replacement Jarvex7 heart valve and came
across the following article, quite interesting I thought, so i'm
sharing it with you;
The article explains the new system and it does sound like a great idea
although it isn't anything new. The problem I have with it is that being
open like this the Spectralink telephones may be subject to interferance
or possibly tampering (malicious) from outside sources.
Local ham ops have already seen previously open auto-patches on repeaters
closed down and entire smart-repeaters rendered dumb due to abuse of the
auto-patches with repeated false 911 calls etc.
<snip>
From 'Vital Signs' 1998, Issue 3 'Innovation' section
Enhanced Communication Methods
Support Patient Focused Care.
By Brigida Callaghan
(high-lights)
"An exciting communication technology will be launched at the PMH Campus
in the new year. Wireless in-house telephone technology will provide a
streamlined voice communication process, with quicker customer access and
response to enhance service delivery"
"Unlike cellular phones, the in-house devices are safe for use in a
hospital environment. Operating on radio technology, the in-house
wireless phones respond to transmission signals from base stations
strategically placed throughout the facility. The system integrates with
the hospitals telephone switch or PBX which allows the wireless phones to
have all the functionality currently available with a desk telephone"
<snip>
The hospital could be opening up a can of worms with the new system if it
is not properly implemented with coded signals and intermod filtering. I've
provided links to the co and product specs for your perusal and to satisfy
the curious. if anyone has any follow ups i'll be pleased to hear about
them and will follow up here.
- sAs72
Related links
The company providing the Spectralink TWS system.
http://www.spectralink.com/
Product literature and specs in .pdf format.
http://www.spectralink.com/products/literature.html
@HWA
H.W Hacked Web Sites (8.0)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There were literally screenfuls of sites that were hacked over the xmas
"holidays" I guess some people had some time on their hands and when
grandma said "you'd better get cracking if you expect to be ready for
xmas!" the words were misread and this hack flood was the result.
Is it just me or is anyone else wondering wether the web cracks go beyond
simple defacing of sites? ... rootkits? sniffers? major carnage could be
done but it seems mostly people scramble to 'get the site back online' and
only report the defacing of the web site but what else? ... --- ... oh the
humanity.
Cracking tip: You don't have to be a genius to crack a site, got a login
to an MP3 site? (usually mp3/mp3) or a warez site (usually something
like oh I dunno... hrm warez/warez) yeah?? wow! ok so forget for one minute
the mindless collecting of mp3's and warez and wander instead... gee whats
this? a passwd file hrm, and gosh a master.passwd file etc etc etc don't
believe it could be this easy? well not that long ago people were pulling
passwd files over the web with the phf exploit until it got hammered into
sysadmins skulls that they were vulnerable (and some sites are STILL open
to this and many other well known holes). No it ain't that difficult. - Ed
Open query to HcVorg:
>HcV HcVorg:
>-[ Sysadmin quote of the Day ]
>
>" Fucking A !! , why cant it be that damn Puff Daddy or The Spice girls "
> -Joe your Favorite Paranoid Schitzophrenic Sysadmin
>
>- " We did no harm blame it on the drugs , on a serious note we are not trying
> to prove anything to anyone but "security weakness" - I-L
1. why these guys? did they just happened to be open'n'easy?
2. why no link to the index.html ("We did no harm...") was it saved offline or
overwritten?
3. what was the point other than self aggrandization?
Anways some of the carnage follows:
What was I saying about 'just defacing web sites and doing nothing else'?
seems someone decided to take things a step further... the black hats must
be loving this one. -Ed
Jan 12th - tucows hacked (from HNN)
Someone calling themselves "UC3n1wVWGSnAk" cracked www.tucows.com early
this morning. While the cracked site may not have been much to look at
it definitely was worth reading. The source that is. The source included
URLs to various web sites and what appeared to be tucows /etc/passwd file.
The only image on the main page was linked to SORM, a Russian Web site
attempting to build awareness about the FSB's (Federal Security Service,
the successor to the KGB) wiretapping program.
From Bikkel;
update by demoniz at Jan 12 , 12:22 CET
"Rumours are that the Web site of one of the worlds largest Internet
software library's, Tucows, got cracked today. We got several emails
about the not so usual mainpage of Tucows, which appears to be
defaced by a Russian Linux users group. The hackers replaced the
front door with their own version. "Long ago we have infected all the
programs on this site (and it's mirrors ofcourse :)) by troyan-viruses,
and that is why we were able to get access to information on many
thousands of computers all over the net. Happy New Year ppl !!! :)"
The alleged Russian hackers published in the source of the cracked
page a password file which most likely is the one they used to gain
access to the Tucows server. The large picture of the Linux penguin
linked to a Web site dealing with a Russian Internet Wiretapping
Project.
Tucows Web site http://www.tucows.com/
Archive of hacked site http://hacknews.bikkel.com/
SORM: http://www.fe.msk.ru/libertarium/eng/sorm/index.html
(Tip by numerous, special thanks to Cosmio and `Shinobi for a copy of
the defaced site)"
Here;s a sample, (sorry ppl I removed the passwords jic)
The Tucows.com passwd file.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<snip>
root:!:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
bin:*:1:1:bin:/bin:
daemon:*:2:2:daemon:/sbin:
adm:*:3:4:adm:/var/adm:
lp:*:4:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:
sync:*:5:0:sync:/sbin:/bin/sync
shutdown:*:6:11:shutdown:/sbin:/sbin/shutdown
halt:*:7:0:halt:/sbin:/sbin/halt
mail:*:8:12:mail:/var/spool/mail:
news:*:9:13:news:/var/spool/news:
uucp:*:10:14:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:
operator:*:11:0:operator:/root:
games:*:12:100:games:/usr/games:
man:*:15:15:Manuals Owner:/:
nobody:*:65534:65534:Nobody:/:/bin/false
col:!:100:100:Caldera OpenLinux User:/home/col:/bin/bash
tucows:!:500:500:Caldera OpenLinux User:/home/tucows:/bin/bash
jlixfeld:!:501:501:Caldera OpenLinux User:/home/jlixfeld:/bin/bash
gweir:!Ww:502:502:Caldera OpenLinux User:/home/gweir:/bin/bash
santosd:!JF1g:503:503:Caldera OpenLinux User:/home/santosd:/bin/bash
adrian:!6jo:504:504:Caldera OpenLinux User:/home/adrian:/bin/bash
erics:!KGE:505:505:Caldera OpenLinux User:/home/erics:/bin/bash
bill:!kWU:506:506:Caldera OpenLinux User:/home/bill:/bin/bash
listserv:!ZUQY:508:508:Caldera OpenLinux User:/home/listserv:/bin/bash
toddb:!3QEa.AUg:510:510:Caldera OpenLinux User:/home/toddb:/bin/bash
argo:!Q4Q:511:502:RHS Linux User:/home/argo:/bin/bash
richg:!8HKM:512:503:RHS Linux User:/home/richg:/bin/bash
colin:!FCQTI2:513:504:RHS Linux User:/home/colin:/bin/bash
danny:!dGyY:514:506:RHS Linux User:/home/danny:/bin/bash
enoss:!FKuY:509:507:RHS Linux User:/home/enoss:/bin/bash
katc:!I:507:508:hehe! try this password ;-)))):/home/katc:/bin/bash
jrocha:!GCUk:515:509:Jerry Rocha:/home/jrocha:/bin/bash
president:!I2s:516:510:RHS Linux User:/home/president:/bin/bash
bck:!Q6:517:510:Backup program:/home/bck:/bin/bash
robbins:!ychf.:518:511:RHS Linux User:/home/robbins:/bin/bash
nsabo:!dgU:519:512:RHS Linux User:/home/nsabo:/bin/bash
2korovi. [http://www.tucows.com]
*/
/*
For newbies
HackZone. [http://www.hackzone.ru]
*/
/*
Secure Linux
Solar Designer [http://www.false.com/security/linux/index.html]
FreeBSD [http://www.freebsd.org]
*/
/*
Spat'
*/
-->
<snip>
Jan 11th - (reported by HNN & bikkel etc, this list from HNN)
http://www.cyberjack3.com/ http://www.starwars.com
http://www.china-window.com/ http://www.aeudf.br
http://flute.gen.com http://alphaassault.com
http://streetlightcafe.org http://www.baghdad-iraq.org
http://www.ba.com/ http://www.gor.com
http://cnnetsvr1.ccmnet.com http://linux.cnic.net
http://www.arclp.com/ http://alphaassault.com
http://www.xxxteenworld.co http://www.humanrights-china.org
pcpowerups.com
And spotted by photon via HNN: (85 domains) some listed here.
tools.co.kr printingshop.com
silkprint.com bigmart.com
dcmart.com powersale.com
familymart.com seoulstudio.co.kr
icard.com
Jan 8th - Reported on 100% Pure Bikkel via a tip by Deepcase
Star Wars.com cracked? update by demoniz at Jan 8 , 17:24 CET
[ it was fixed when I checked it at 5:04pm EST - Ed ]
`We lost all our faith in the Star Wars crew. Luke and his friends are
supposed to protect the universe from evil alien creatures, but as it
turns out, they can't even defend their homebase. Today the official
Star Wars site of Lucasfilm Ltd was slightly modified by an evil (alien?)
hacker.
The hacker changed some words on the mainpage. "The Evil empire is
watching you! hello to digit, crazy-b, luke skyw, tmoggie, gaius, cisco9,
f11ex, angrignon, ttyp0, xcsh..." ' (is this real of a sysadmin having
some fun?) it wouldn't be the first time a site has been party to a fake
hack for publicity...- Ed )
http://www.starwars.com/
(Interesting site btw, check out the animatronics section <g>)
Vu|Ture of HcV is 'credited' with hacking the Batman2000 site.
http://www.Batman2000.com Web site
Jan 7th - Reported on 100% Pure Bikkel (demoniz/CrawlX/Dirty Jew/others)
Iron-Lungs of HcV cracked leia.com and thegalleryno1.com which we've seen
before on the 'hacked' lists.
http://www.leia.com
http://www.thegalleryno1.com
Jan 5th - Reported by HNN
http://www.lod.com/ - Zyklon allegedly cracked LOD communications site
-=- Old News revisited (with an update) -=-
Sites listed in issue#3
From hnn dec23
rumours section
These sites have been hacked Dec23rd'98:
www.fractals.com ...........: Still hacked as of Dec 23rd
www.ambientcorp.com.........: Still hacked as of Dec 23rd
www.lindasy.com.............: Fixed
www.paulsonpress.com........: Fixed
www.uomini-photography.com..: Fixed
www.pagnol.com..............: Still hacked as of Dec 23rd
{
Extract from issue #3
Newer hacks (Dec 28th)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Checked 1:55p EST this msg was posted (and reported) on Bikkel
the "Still hacked" sites remained hacked for up to one week after
the initial intrusion. Bad, very bad.
More sites in protest of high telecom rates:
Checked at 12:13 EST by Cruciphux:
www.cabolinda.com .....: Server down/not responding
www.apibajasur.com.mx ..: Server down/not responding
www.doring.com ........: Raw directory with /logs displayed
www.villamex.com.mx ....:"Pagina en Construccion !!!!" message
www.cabo-architects.com.: Fixed
www.finisterra.com......: Fixed
*** According to Bikkel RaZa-MeXiCaNa is claiming responsibility,
| }
+->check elsewhere in this ish for Raza-Mexicana's response to this claim
@HWA
A.0 APPENDICES
~~~~~~~~~~
Planning on tidying things up a bit around here, make it more uhm
hrm, accessible... index and shit, maybe even a PDF version. we'll
see.
@HWA'98
A.1 PHACVW, sekurity, security, cyberwar links
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The links are no longer maintained in this file, there is now a
links section on the http://welcome.to/HWA.hax0r.news/ url so check
there for current links etc.
Hacker's FAQ (The #hack/alt.2600 faq)
http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~jgotts/underground/hack-faq.html
Hacker's Jargon File (aka "The quote file")
http://www.lysator.liu.se/hackdict/split2/main_index.html
Site quotable:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://www.hacksec.org
#home;^\
"Knowledge is Power! The pursuit and use of knowledge is a noble
vocation. Prudent use of power requires wisdom, balance and courage.
In an information age, the ignorant will be subjugated and manipulated.
Governments, city-states and corporations exist to serve themselves.
We will not abdicate our sovereign rights as sentinel beings. Our sect
is a collective of like-minded individuals, dedicated to diversity and
perfecting our 'arts'. As digital shamen in a technocratic world, we will
defend the WAY!"
- HSK, 1998
A few international links:(TBC)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Netherlands...: http://security.pine.nl/
Russia........: http://www.tsu.ru/~eugene/
Indonesia.....: http://www.k-elektronik.org/index2.html
http://members.xoom.com/neblonica/
Brasil........: http://www.psynet.net/ka0z
http://www.elementais.cjb.net
A.A Why I love Microsoft
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Read it and weep, I recently subbed to this list recently and had the
tremendous pleasure of reading this novel on sign-up when a few lines
would have sufficed, reprinted here in its entirety not merely to take
up space and infuriate people (i'd have put it in the main body if it
was to meant to annoy) but as a model for others to follow. Let MS lead
you on your way to the future, gh0d bless...Thanks Bill. we all have
giga-quad bandwidth straight to our asses.
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 06:00:14 -0500
From: "L-Soft list server at Microsoft \(1.8d\)" <LISTSERV@ANNOUNCE.MICROSOFT.COM>
Subject: Subscription probe for MICROSOFT_SECURITY - please ignore
To: myass@HZ.NOW
X-LSV-ListID: MICROSOFT_SECURITY
Sun, 3 Jan 1999 06:00:14
This message is only a "probe" to test that the email address for your
subscription to the MICROSOFT_SECURITY list is still working correctly.
You do not need to take any action to remain subscribed to the list, and
in particular you should NOT reply to this message. Simply discard it
now, or read on if you would like to know more about how this probing
mechanism works.
*******************
A "probe" is a message like the one you are reading, sent to an
individual subscriber and tagged with a special signature to uniquely
identify this particular subscriber (you can probably not see the
signature because it is in the mail headers). If the subscriber's e-mail
address is no longer valid, the message will be returned to LISTSERV and
the faulty address will be removed from the list. If the subscriber's
address is still valid, the message will not bounce and the user will not
be deleted.
The main advantage of this technique is that it can be fully automated;
the list owner does not need to read a single delivery error. For a large
or active list, the manpower savings can be tremendous. In fact, some
lists are so large that it is virtually impossible to process delivery
errors manually. Another advantage is that the special, unique signatures
make it possible to accurately process delivery errors that are otherwise
unintelligible, even to an experienced technical person.
The drawback, however, is that this method lacks flexibility and
forgiveness. Since the Internet does not provide a reliable mechanism for
probing an e-mail address without actually delivering a message to the
human recipient, the subscribers need to be inconvenienced with yet
another "junk message". And, unlike a human list owner, LISTSERV follows
a number of simple rules in determining when and whether to terminate a
subscription. In particular, a common problem with automatic probes is
mail gateways that return a delivery error, but do deliver the message
anyway. LISTSERV has no way to know that the message was in fact
delivered, and in most cases the subscriber is not aware of the existence
of these "false" error reports. If this happens to you, LISTSERV will
send you another message with a copy of the delivery error returned by
your mail system, so that
you can show it to your technical people.
"Well. There it is." - Ed
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