contributed by Dr. Mudge
This article came out on Monday but it took two days for it show up anywhere. Why did it take so long? This is a rare positive hacker story. No hackers where arrested, accused of anything, no outrages claims where made, nothing was sensationalized. This article is about true hacking and not what the mainstream media has morphed it into. AND this is from Reuters, amazing, didn't they carry a story two weeks ago making all sorts of outrageous hacker claims? Something to do with satellites? I could only find this article in two places, the Reuters article on satellites was all over the web within hours.

Yahoo News
Builder Online

contributed by deeek
A twenty-two year old New Zealand man has been sentenced to five years in jail for 'hacking'. This article is extremely vague on the details of the charges against the man and is more of a promotional piece for the judge. Evidently Craig Ian Henderson racked up over $60,000 in charges while using purloined credit card information, at Telecom Clear and Vodafone. No details are given as to how he managed to defraud the companies, what charges he was convicted of or what exactly happened here.

IDG News

contributed by Livewire
The City of Dallas is being held accountable for $19,000 in long distance phone bills it apparently did not make. Evidently someone was able to route calls to Pakistan, Morroco, Nepal, Peru and other countries from a payphone through the cities telephone system. AT&T claims that it warned the city about the problem months before when it rescinded a similar bill for $4,000 and now are demanding payment for the new $19,000 bill. AT&T claims that the security of the cities phone system was the cities responsibility and that they should not be held liable for the cities problems. The city feels that since AT&T was gracious enough to ignore the previous $4,000 bill they should also ignore this new $19,000 bill. Dallas officials have finnally placed a block on city phone lines to prevent a recurrence.

The Dallas Morning News

contributed by G-Childz
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia has reaffirmed a pledge in the Bill of Guarantee that there will be no censorship on the internet. After being informed of proposals by local governments requiring users to be registered at cyber cafes the Prime Minister immediately gave instructions for the practice to be stopped. Yeah!

MALAYSIAN NEWS
HNN Archive for 12/29/98-Read More about Malaysia requiring registration at Cyber Cafes

contributed by Code Kid
Ernest & Young evidently feels it can teach Network Administrators how to be a hacker. E&Y may be able to teach some of the skills and techniques but they can not teach the dedication, passion, or motivation that is really necessary.

Time Magazine

contributed by Space Rogue
Not sure how useful this is put it seems pretty cool. The Internet UPC Database. UPCs, you know Uniform Product Codes those little bar codes on everything you buy. This databases boasts over a quarter million UPCs online and searchable.

The Internet UPC Database

contributed by Space Rogue
We have finished one of the exciting new features we mentioned on Monday. The Affiliate Resources page is now done. You can find it from the Affiliates page. The Affilaites page has recently been updated with several new affiliates. The Affiliate Resources page contains not only graphics that you can use for your site but HTML as well. Many of our affiliates have asked for the ability to display HNN Headlines on thier own site. Well now you can!

HNN Affiliates

contributed by Anonymous
Cracked
We have recieved reports that the following sites have been compromised:
http://www.bostonsports.com
http://www.sp50.com