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Issue Number: 47
Release Date: May 21, 1988
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Recent news:
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Employees at the First National Bank of Chicago were caught in an attempt to
steal $70 million through computers and wire transfers. There have been many
articles on this and I could take up about three issues by typing up the six
articles on it that I have found but I would much rather just print a single
article that covers everything and is very short. This article is very short
but explains what happened. It comes from USA TODAY. The date of the article is
May 20, 1988.
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TITLE: $70M Bank Scam is Foiled; 7 Charged
FROM: USA TODAY
DATE: May 20, 1988
Seven men were charged Wednesday in a sophisticated scheme to steal $70
million from First National Bank of Chicao through wire transfers to Vienna,
Austria. Four men were in custody. Two bank employees- Otis Wilson and Gabriel
Taylor- are accused of providing confidential code words needed for money
transfers by computer. The money- from corporate accounts of Merrill Lynch,
United Air Lines and a liquor company -was recovered from the new accounts.
Bank spokesman Tony Zehnder called it one of the biggest-ever "almost-crimes."
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NOTA:
There you have it!
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TITLE: Long-distance Bill is a Monkey on his Back
FROM: The Chicago Sun-Times
DATE: MAY 20, 1988
Dear Action Time: Take a gander at my phone bill. It's a nightmare.
This all began in Febrary, when my long-distance company, MidAmerica in
Omaha, Neb., sent a $540 bill. I tried calling but the firm wouldn't accept my
call. I tried writing but never got an answer. But I did get a March bill for
a whopping $507.50.
Illinois Bell provided me with a special toll-free number for Mid America.
A clerk took my call, assured me it was a computer error and promised
everything would be OK. Whew! Thank Goodness.
Unfortunately, my relief was short-lived, because my next bill was for
$2,045.04. Look at all those calls, 33 pages of them. It looks like a
chimpanzee compiled it. The calls cover practically the entire country. I'm 74
years old and on a fixed income. I've got enough sense to realize I couln't
never make that many calls and pay for them. I tried to contact that same
clerk, but she was out to lunch and never returned my call. Am I up a tree?
elrose Park
Dear Mute: With the chimp? All kidding aside, Janet Moss told us she had
processed two credits to cover the total bill. But for some reason, the
credits were still mirred down in the office machinery. Moss, customer services
manager, assured us they will get through.
In the meantime, you may still get hit with a few bogus calls on your next
bill. Ignore them, said Moss, who also clarified the error: long-distance
fraud.
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NOTA:
And some people still wonder how a code can last for months without someone
noticing.
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TITLE: Attack of the Computer Crackers
FROM: Image: The Magazine of Northern California
DATE:
A T T A C K O F T H E C O M P U T E R C R A C K E R S
The New Wave of Juvenile Techno-Delinquents
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And now that high-tech mischeif has moved from the realm of alienated whiz
kids to mainstream teens, a new wave of so-called computer "Crackers" is
taking form--one wider, deeper, and better organized than ever before.
The Nation had better hang on tight to its data bases.
An electronic mail system furthers the culture, as members message each
other's computers via the phone lines. Computer files where any member is
free to deposit a message are called electronic bulletin boards. There is
really no way to count the number of crackers exchanging tips and techniques
this way--certainly they number in the thousands. Here is one of the many
Manifesto's:
"This is our world now ... The world of the electron and the switch, the
beauty of the baud. We make use of a service that already exists without
paying for what could be dirt cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons,
and you call us criminals. We explore, and you call us criminals. We seek
after knowledge, and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color,
without nationality, without religious bias, and you call us criminals. You
build atomic bombs, wage wars, you murder, you cheat and lie to us and try to
make us believe it is for our own good, yet we're the criminals."
"Yes! I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of
judging people by what they think and say, not what they look like. My crime
is that of outsmarting you, something you will never forgive me for. I am a
hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't
stop us all. After all, we're all alike."
To make an impact in the phreak/hack world, you have to be busted or do
something major. This is the code of Cyberpunk, a real-life version of the
high-tech, low-life vision of science-fiction writer William Gibson.
One underground publication, 'Phrack World News', even prints electronic
profiles of well-known crackers such as Lord Digital. Copies of 'Phrack' are
electronically passed between underground BBS systems, where they cana user
with the special "security clearance."
Many crackers go by this version of Cyberpunk, "I'm smart but I party. I'm
reckless, but I'm reponsible. I'm very childlike at times, and at other times
I can be very serious. I'm different than everyone else in my high school."
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NOTA:
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"a new wave of so-called computer 'Crackers'"
Actually hackers would be a better name since crackers is a word that describes
people who remove the copy-protection from software.
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"Here is one of the many
Manifesto's:"
What was printed is part of a file on hackers and what they stand for. It was
an anonymous file written a few years ago and I have seen it around on several
bulletin boards.
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"To make an impact in the phreak/hack world, you have to be busted or
do something major."
I have heard stories of people who TRY to get busted so that they can get
their name in the paper and be famous. As for doing something "major" there
are many tall tales in the phreak/hack world by pseudo-hackers and some
pseudo-phreaks who are trying to get a name for themselves.
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"One underground publication, 'Phrack World News', even prints electronic
profiles of well-known crackers such as Lord Digital."
Phrack World News (PWN) is a regular feature of Phrack Magazine. It gives
details on the latest happenings and is very similar to TNS. Unfortunately,
Phrack World News has practically died since Knight Lightning has quit
writing it. The profile on Lord Digital is unknown to me, but the profile
wouldn't be a part of PWN.
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"Copies of 'Phrack' are electronically passed between underground
BBS systems, where they can be read by a user with the special 'security clearance.'"
Phrack is availiable to all people and is spread without discrimination. It
is freely distributed and no one needs any security clearance to read it. I
swear to god... this sounds like something that Oryan QUEST wrote.
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THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION COMES FROM BITNET....
227 Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1988 10:07 From: Wash <WASH> Subject: Hacker hits
VMS
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 88 22:26:43 GMT From:
"XMRP20000[khw]-g.c.mccoury" Subject: Hacker hits VMS
From The Star-Ledger(Newark NJ) 3/17/88
TEEN HACKER 'INVADES' NEW SECURE COMPUTER
PARIS(Reuters)- A 19-year-old West German hacker has succeeded
in breaking the world's top-selling computers,
Digital Equipment Corp.'s VAX system, in what experts say is a
new blow to confidence in computer security.
Computer specialists broke the news yesterday at a computer
conference already shocked by the arrest on Sunday of West
German hacker Steffen Wernery, 26, as he arrived to take part
in a panel debate on system security.
Wernery is a member of the Hamburg-based Chaos Computer
Club which caused a storm last year when it revealed it had
penetrated more than 100 computers around the world, including Enter a
carriage return to see the next page or S to stop... y NASA.
French police announced later that Wernery had been charged
with "theft, destruction and damaging computer goods" and had
been jailed pending trial.
West German journalist and computer expert Hans Gliss, who
was also held briefly by French police when he arrived in Paris
on Sunday, said the unidentified 19-year-old from Munich had
worked out how to enter VAX computers made by Digital.
Gliss said the Munich hacker had breached the VAX system by
using material openly available from Digital, which is based in
Maynard, Mass.
Digital executives were in a meeting and not available for
comment, a spokeswoman said.
Rudiger Dierstein, of West Germany's national space foundation
DFVLR, said the consequences of the Munich hacker's achievement
were "terrifying."
"This person has given a full description of how to gain access
to the system and gain full control. Imagine combining the
intelligence of this hacker with a definite criminal intention,"
he said.
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TOLMES NEWS SERVICE INDEX:
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Tolmes News Service Issue #1
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Introduction to TNS Magazine
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Tolmes News Service Issue #2
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Introduction to Issue #2
They Sure Can Talk in Raleigh
Teaching Computer Ethics in the Schools
Cash-Machine Magician
Cheaper Electronics Makes It a Snap to Snoop
Los Alamos Nuclear Facility Security Boost
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Tolmes News Service Issue #3
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Making Computers Snoop-Proof
War Against Phone Hacking Heats Up
Toll Fraud Trial Sets New Tone
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Tolmes News Service Issue #4
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Cellular Technology
Pirate BBS
Scanning Bust
Rip Offs
How the Soviets Are Bugging America
Deadly Bugs
The Newest Dating Game
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Electronic Cryptot
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Tolmes News Service Issue #6
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HD Sentry: Hard Disk Protection from Trojan Horse Programs
Check This: Ma Bell is a Generous Soul
Sign In and then Sign On
How To Beat Phone Assault
Prisoner Phone Phreaks
Suburban Kids Are Too Dumb to Steal
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Tolmes News Service Issue #7
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Federal Sting Nets 25 for Cellular Phone Fraud in NYC
18 Are Seized in Illegal Use of Mobile Telephones
Hello Anywhere
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Tolmes News Service Issue #8
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Keeping the Secrets Inside the Computer
Bugging
Urine Hot-Line
Innovation? Just Hold the Phone
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Tolmes News Service Issue #9
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The National Guards
The Caller That Isn't Long-Winded
A Call to Stop Long-Distance Scam
Online Junkies- Artificial Intelligence
Hacking Through NASA: A Threat- Or Only an Embarassment
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Tolmes News Service Issue #10
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The Bust of Shadow Hawk
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Shadow Hawk's Bust: Continued from TNS Issue #10
US Sprint Sues "Ring" of Hackers for $20 Million
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Tolmes News Service Issue #12
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The Blue Box and Ma Bell
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Tolmes News Service Issue #13
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Capt. Zap: Informant?
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Tolmes News Service Issue #14
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411: Life at Directory Assistance
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The Max Headroom TV Pirate
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The Celling of America
Tales That Do Not Compute
Responses to Issue #12's Article
Introduction: TNS QuickNotes
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Tolmes News Service Issue #17
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New Security Measures at ITT
Capt. Zap's Defense
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Tolmes News Service Issue #18
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2600 Magazine's Official Bulletin Boards
Some Things about Phrack Inc.
Syndicate Report: Will It Return?
TNS QuickNotes
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Tolmes News Service Issue #19
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'If You Need Help, Press 3'
Satellite Paging
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Tolmes News Service Issue #20
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AT&T's Attempt at a Comeback
The 1-900 Report
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AT&T and Sun Microsystems
1-900's
AT&T Credit Card Fraud Causes a $5,430 Bill
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Tolmes News Service Issue #22
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TNS Issue Directory
FON Card Review
Credit Card Fraud Arrests
Radio ANI
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Dial-a-Porn Restrictions
Changes at 2600
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Tolmes News Service Issue #24
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1-900 Abuses
Gab Lines
Phone Aid
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Return of The Rebel
Problems for Mafia Dude
The Foreign Legion
Return of the Private Connection
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Computer Terrorism!
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Changes at 2600 Magazine
Virus Report
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Viruses Threatening an Era of Computer Freedom
The Tulsa Busts
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Telecom Update
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Federal Phone Snafu
The Trojan Wars
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Computer Systems Under Seige
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Computer Terror
Youths Suspected in Phone Fraud
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Breaking and Entering: High Tech Style
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Tolmes News Service Issue #34
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Multi-State Computer Theft Ring
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Virus Wars
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Is Your Computer Infected?
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Capt. Zap
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Tolmes News Service Issue #38
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Names in the News
Mafia Dude Interview
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Changes at US Sprint
Chaos Computer Club Member Questioned by Authorities
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Tolmes News Service Issue #40
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Pirated Software Seized
Florida Pirates Busted
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Tolmes News Service Issue #41
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Viruses
Operators
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Tolmes News Service Issue #42
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Federal Phone Privacy Suit
Anti-Piracy Fund Established
Another PC Virus
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Tolmes News Service Issue #43
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Computing a Bit of Security
Computer Secrets
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Tolmes News Service Issue #44
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FBI Computer Plans
Berkley Whiz Tracks German Hacker
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Tolmes News Service Issue #45
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Telecom Update
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Tolmes News Service Issue #46
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Crime in the Computer Age
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