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News for
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contributed by Space Rogue
New in the Buffer Overflow section is an article by Space Rogue on how
you might want to prepare for the impending Y2K crises. No need to go
crazy but being a little prepared never hurt anyone.
Buffer Overflow
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Underground goes mainstream
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contributed by Meg A. Haquer
InfoWorld has named three underground products as 'InfoWorld Products of
the Year' in the 'Golden Guardian Category' They have honored OpenBSD,
nmap, and L0phtCrack as security products of the year. While all three
products are arguably underground none of them have major million dollar
companies behind them and all three are written by true hackers.
Info
World
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contributed by photon
A bill that will restrict the monitoring of various radio frequencies
has been passed by The House commerce committee. The purpose of the
bill is said to protect personal privacy by preventing the eavesdropping
of pagers and cellar phone conversations. However depending on how the
wording is interpreted it could also mean the end to listening to police
band and other emergency-service transmissions.
Full Text
of HR514
Wired
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contributed by erehwon
Cryptic Seduction, the world's first cypherpunk porn flick, was screened
for the first time at the regular monthly meeting of cypherpunks in
Oakland, California on February 13th.
Wired
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contributed by Kingpin
For those that missed it 20/20 on ABC aired a show on February 10th
about HERF (High Energy Radio Frequency) guns. While the show was high
in FUD it was low in actual facts or solutions. The demonstrations shown
where only done from a few feet away and where not very convincing.
ABC
News
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contributed by cuciphux
HWA.hax0r.news Number 6 Volume 1 has been released. This new issue has
articles on various security advisories, command execution with Pine,
German Hacking and a rather interesting IRC log. The log shows a
conversation between Winn Schwartau, and other people from Infowar
talking with optiklenz and company from LoU. Very interesting. Draw your
own conclusions.
HWA.hax0r.newse
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contributed by mortel
The second Air Force Cadet in as many weeks has been nabbed. This one
accused of posting "vulgar and disrespectful" messages on an
underground cadet Internet site. (Underground cadet internet site?
Guess it wasn't too underground.)
Yahoo
Daily News
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contributed by War3z Dud3
The recent Nintendo Emulator that has caused Sony to file suit and has
created a lot of press is nothing more than a fake. Programmers have
claimed that it is only a decompile of the original application and a
pretty bad one at that.
Wired
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contributed by SiMONSAYS
First airing on Sunday evening on a local San Francisco based station,
KICU, Wild Wild Web did a story on hacktavism. They had interviews with
John Lester (cDc) and Carmin Karasic of the Electronic Disturbance
Theater.
Wild
Wild Web
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contributed by Anonymous
Cracked
We have recieved reports that the following sites have been cracked by
the following people.
hakb0y, opt1mus, RazaMExicana
http://harry.lbl.gov
http://www.cbvm.net
http://www.yauni.co.kr
http://www.bcb.gov.bo
http://work.go.kr
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