Fox News – FBI Narrows Hunt in Website Attacks – February 14, 2000

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.....
The Gazette – Teen accused of raiding city Web site – May 10, 2000

A 17-year-old Colorado Springs boy was charged in juvenile court Tuesday with one count each of computer crime and criminal mischief after he broke into the city's Web site in October and replaced it with the message, "i love this city ytcracker 9d9 palmer high." The two felony charges carry a maximum penalty of two years of juvenile detention. The boy, known online as "ytcracker,".....
InternetNews – Hackers Again Strike AOL – June 19, 2000

America Online, Inc. is the latest Net crime victim to have the privacy of some of its 23 million members violated. While the extent of weekend damage is unknown, the knowledge of how to access security holes in America Online's (Quote, Chart) network is spreading quickly through Internet channels. While AOL members are assured at every point of contact that their information is secure from potential maliciousness,.....
ABC News – FAA Computers are Insecure – September 27, 2000

 The Federal Aviation Administration skips key background checks on workers, leaves open known security holes, doesn’t even use passwords sometimes and has inadequate firewalls, the report says.      The air-traffic control system hasn’t been successfully attacked, but at least one hacker has broken into an FAA e-mail server. And a year after identifying holes in one FAA system, contractors found the agency had not fixed.....
One eye open | Cracking accounts at night

There was nothing more fun then thinking of a bunch of leets to add to a cracker that I was going to start overnight. I remember everyone had their own PWLs (password lists) from 3200 to 34000 and even larger. (You can find a bunch of the PWL's on here). It all depended on how much time you wanted to put in cracking your leet......
Olaf.Punted.Net

Found an old website from Olaf through Archive.Org a lot of the data is gone but most of the news stories are still available. Website URL:  http://olaf.punted.net Wednesday/July/18/2001 - - puntme  hi mom.   Wednesday/July/18/2001 - now you die. - puntme i updated the funny section, you go now Monday/July/16/2001 - 16496 25366 - puntme hey, i think i updated something.. but its hard to tell anymore. but really ive been surfing the.....

Three 17-year-olds take credit for inserting pornographic images into America Online’s widely used chat service. Users of the latest version of AOL's Instant Messenger (AIM) software started encountering an unpleasant surprise on Saturday morning: At least three crackers -- malicious hackers -- began inserting pornographic images into "AIM Today" and vandalizing content on at least four screens of the chat software. Since last August, users.....
Rant | 1999

So now its 1999 after web I dove into visual basic to learn to code my own progs.  I cant remember the person that helped me add bas files, and how to call the different subs in that module such as ChatSend. Programming in VB was different then coding websites but wasnt to far off. There was actually a ton of sources and content available......
RANT | Miss these days…

Man some days i just get caught in a nostalgic phase and just think about all the old times online.  Theres no more chatrooms, no more sleeping at night waiting to hear that notification sound for a cracked leet; popping instantly out of bed.  Waking up to find out your cracker or spammer just crashed or froze and that entire list you were cracking and.....

Acid Burn: (one of these) PiXY RuLEz You! or upsidedown or03/17/96

Agent Orange Tosser: I Crap On Lamers ivan is a fairymaxuck

Anti-mass mailer: bud is blah

AoAbortion Tos: Fuck TeRRoR, FAC: KK

AoAbortion FAC: KK

AoAkira: GrEEn DaY

AoAsting: BuBBa , Ugh(AsTiGMaX), John(Prez), AsTiG RuLeZ(member)

AoBliss Tosser: Welcome to the wonderful world of Bliss

AoBomer v1 b1 bot scare: YoUsUck

Aobomer v1 b1 tos: Only TOS LamerZ

AoBomer v1 b2: TOS ALL LAMERZ

AoBomer v1 b3: ALL LAMERZ DIE!