contributed by gweeds
A story that HNN reported over a month ago has finally made it to mainstream media. Tr0n (Boris Floriciz), a brilliant European hacker who created the first of the so called 'miracle cards' and small low-cost telephone scrambling devices was found dead i n a park in Berlin Germany. The police have still not determined if he died of suicide or homicide. The Chaos Computer Club is planning on releasing their own report at their annual convention in December.

Original HNN Story
Chaos Computer Club
ABC News
Detriot News
Spokesman Review
Miami Herald
Washington Post

contributed by Dildog
Dildog of the Cult of the Dead Cow has released version 0.9.3b of his popular Back Orifice plug-in BUTTSniffer. The new version has numerous bug fixes and better support for WindowsNT. BUTTSniffer does packet sniffing and network monitoring through WIn9 5, 98, and NT 4.0. It works as a standalone executable as well as a BackOrifice plug-in.

BUTTSniffer

contributed by Space Rogue
It would appear that China is stepping up its efforts to crack down on crackers. Anti-hacker software by Beixingyuan was recently approved by the Ministry of Public Security.

Nando Times
CNN

contributed by acidflesh
ICQ Hacking Utilities (IHU) was cracked at least twice over the weekend. This is the 29th time IHU has been attacked in under a two week period. This has to be some kind of record. It has been rumoured that HcV has been responsible for most of the hack s, which started back when IHU was hosted by funkheim.com.

contributed by Anonymous
We recieved an email that stated that Packard Bell (www.packardbell.com) was hacked over the long weekend, along with http://www.packardbell.net. The domains were immediately taken down after the attack. The defaced page can be found at http://www.sekurity.8m.com/haxxor.html