PPN – Concepts of Echelon by Phonetap – November 07, 1999
PPN – Concepts of Echelon by Phonetap – November 07, 1999

The Phone Punx Network Presents--Phone Punx Magazine------Issue three----"We are the phony in telephony"November 07, 1999Last Updated: November 07, 1999http://fly.to/ppn(Mirror: http://worship.to/ppn)phonepunx@yahoo.com Contents ~Intro by Mohawk ~Beginners Guide to the DACS, Part One by BitError ~CallerID: Up close and Personal by hatredonalog ~DATUs - The Tool of the New Age Phreak: Part II by MMX ~Frequency Counters by Black Axe ~An Overview of Trunked Radio Systems by.....
Wired – Cracker launches attack on NASA. – November 23, 1999
Wired – Cracker launches attack on NASA. – November 23, 1999

The Web pages of three US Government agencies, including NASA's Goddard Flight Center, have been defaced by a cracker who is worried that US government security systems are vulnerable to cyberattack. The front pages of the sites for NASA's Goddard Flight Center international page, the Bureau of Land Management's National Training Center, and the Defense Contracts Audit Agency, on Wednesday were replaced with a page showing a cartoon of.....
HNN – The story of the great Y2K swindle…. – January 07, 2000
HNN – The story of the great Y2K swindle…. – January 07, 2000

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.....
Dallas Morning News – Hackers Expected to Test Computer Security. – December 29, 1999
Dallas Morning News – Hackers Expected to Test Computer Security. – December 29, 1999

Dec. 29 (The Dallas Morning News/KRTBN)--While Y2K wary Americans ring in the New Year with champagne and flashlights, computer hackers are set to celebrate with what security experts fear will be an unprecedented assault on computer systems across the globe. The potential assault, as described by hackers and federal law enforcement officials, is likely to include cybermischief as elemental as website defacement or the planting.....
Wired – Smells like Mean Spirit – February 09, 2000
Wired – Smells like Mean Spirit – February 09, 2000

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......
InternetNews – Hackers Again Strike AOL – June 19, 2000
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
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.....