The Setup What do billions of dollars, billions of useless books, and billions of prophetic statements have in common? If you guessed the infamous Y2K rollover, you are probably one of the millions of people who were informed of some global catastrophe set to take place the first of this year. There was not a paper in publication these last few years that didn't mention.....

10:50 a.m. 9.Feb.2000 PST Hackers, who pride themselves on Web attacks with a purpose, are scornful of the "packet monkeys" responsible for this week's attacks on Yahoo, CNN, and other high-profile sites. The cracker or crackers responsible for the attacks have been contemptuously dubbed "packet monkeys" because their exploits involve flooding a site with packets of information and, detractors say, betray a distinctly simian intelligence......

NEW YORK — U.S. investigators are focusing on a handful of potential suspects in last week's attacks on major Web sites, Internet security experts and hacker sources familiar with the investigation said on Monday. As experts traced the Web site blitzkrieg to a virulent new software program, Tribal Flood Network, used to break into computer networks, Internet security firms raced to offer updated programs to fend.....

A 17-year-old minor residing in Colorado Springs, CO, was charged with violating Colorado State computer crime statutes. The 17-year-old, known throughout the hacker community as "YTCracker" (pronounced "Whitey Cracker"), was charged with one count of computer crime and one count of criminal mischief by compromising and defacing numerous Internet web sites, including DoD web site servers in Boston, MA, and Fort Belvoir, VA. On November.....