contributed by hamish
The National Bank of Australia has admitted to being the victim of fraud. Yeah, for them for taking the high road and actually admitting it. A criminal defrauded the bank by linking a stolen Eftpos credit card terminal back into a merchant's system, in effect cracking the merchants link to the bank, and then issued themselves credits, paid to a variety of real bank accounts in various branches. The bank has since closed the security hole.

The Age

contributed by David Noack
The Courier & Press, a Evansville Indiana Newspaper, had its online classified ads cracked. The cracker changed the wording in more than a dozen ads in the online edition of the ``Fast Trak'' automotive publication. The incident has been reported to the FBI. This crack along with the NYT crack last summer raises the question of just how much you can trust online news, including HNN.

Evansville Courier

contributed by Ghost Hawk
If you have subscribed to a email list known as The Daily Joke then you have unwittingly allowed your email address to be read by anyone. By improperly configuring their web server and by storing the subscriber list on the same machine as the web server The Daily Joke has left the personal information of its subscribers open to the world.

The Daily Joke
Daily Joke Email Database

contributed by Code Kid
NetBus 2.0 Pro was released last Friday as a commercial tool. This new version is shareware and has a registration fee of $12. Virus makers are now removing the software from their lists of detectable items since they now consider the program to be commercial. This article also mentions the impending release of BO2K. A smaller more stealthy version of Back Orifice.

MSNBC

contributed by cruciphux
HWA hax0r news #7 has been released. This issue has lots of good articles and various advisories. (Ed Note: One article mentions that HNN was cracked. We have had various problems with our server lately and these will most likly continue as we tweak our server making our site unreachable at times. We have not however, been cracked. If and when we do get cracked you will hear about it here first. That is not something we would keep secret. Full disclosure goes both ways.)

HWA hax0r news #7

contributed by Space Rogue
Last month saw the start of a French group called "Hacker Emergency Response Team" or HERT. HNN has received an email that claims HERT stole the name from someone else and that the real HERT "HERT Emergency Response Team" has been operating underground since mid 1989. We have also received a reply from the new group that has been accused of stealing the name. We are presenting both emails here in their entirety. Read them and make up your own mind.

Email from HERT Emergency Response Team[hert.html - MISSING]
Response from Hacker Emergency Response Team[hert2.html - MISSING]

contributed by Everybody
Cracked
We recieved reports that the following sites had been cracked over the weekend:
http://www.babyspice.co.uk
http://www.per.nl
http://www.diningma.org/
http://www.wachterhaus.com
http://www.200cigarettes.com
http://www.ukip.co.uk/
http://www.comdex.com/
http://hollywoodbookstore.com
http://www.ipswitch.com/
http://www.wsftp.com
http://www.mre.gov.br
http://www.swiss-web.com
http://www.des-con-systems.com
http://www.boscoenterprises.com/
http://jamco.smn.co.jp
http://wgendai.smn.co.jp
http://broadia.smn.co.jp
http://sun122.smn.co.jp