contributed by ladysharrow
Paul Smith, 29, a creator of Access Denied, was denied a mortgage at his local bank, so he tells the press that he was cracked. Gen Technology, his employer, had issued a challenge on the Internet defying people to break into a computer network protected by its Access Denied system. When the crackers couldn't get in they became upset and verbally threatened Mr. Smith, so says this article. He later found "six default notices and a County Court judgment to the financial records". No confirmation from the bank is listed here, I am sure they would be rather upset about being broken into. As a matter of fact this article has no confirmation whatsoever, it reads like one big advertisement for 'Access Denied'

Electronic Telegraph

contributed by Weld Pond
DIVX, the pay per view DVD format touted by Circuit City, may have been cracked. DIVX Hack is supposedly a box that intercepts the telephone calls your DIVX box makes to fool the box into thinking that your account has been debited. This allows you to watch DIVX movies over and over again for free. DIVX Hack is being sold for $150. The question is does it work?

CMP Net

contributed by Gunslinger
Chronicle is a utility by the Rhino9 Security Research Team that will determine the current service pack/hotfix level of all WinNT machines in your NT domain. There are some bugs, but this is a great tool for any NT network administrator. Like most Rhino9 releases, the source code is available for download.

Rhino9

contributed by Scr1pt
The Bureau of Labor Statistics was cracked last week. The BLS reports on statistics that drive the global economy markets. How can they allow such a low level of security? How can anyone trust any data posted to their machines now? An economic terrorist could just change a few numbers and put the worlds economy into a spin.

Andover News

contributed by Anonymous
The folks over at interave.net seem to be sponsoring a 'hacker contest' asking people to break into one of their machines. Not sure if you actually get anything other than the glory but it may be worth a look see.

Interrave.net

contributed by mortel
Iowa State University feels that the meteorological data collected on one of its servers is of primary interest to some unknown crackers. They are actively seeking the crackers who appear to be coming from outside ISU.

Yahoo Daily News

contributed by ChromeBP
Cisco, Lucent Technologies, Network Associates Inc. and Sun Microsystems are joining forces to create a security marketing juggernaut by forming the Security Research Alliance to collaborate on development and share advanced security research. The Alliance will sponsor the Research Crystal Ball Symposium, to be held in Los Angeles in April.

Internet Week

contributed by Mad Diablo
Navy Cracked
Members of the cracking group Pantaguard have been busy. Claiming that there has been to much focus on NASA systems recently they went after the Navy.

HNN Archive of cracked page
Navy Recruiting Command
Naval Sea Systems Command
Naval Sea Logistics Center

Some other interesting sites that have been cracked recently. (We have a lot more that are not as interesting. We just don't have room to list them all and archive their pages.)
http://www.mgmt.purdue.edu/
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/
http://www.ky.gov.se
http://www.sb.gov.se
http://www.pension.gov.se
http://www.concourt.sk
http://fdc.wh.cei.gov.cn/
http://www.caradon.gov.uk
http://linux.networksonline.com