Computer Hackers News Articles

           

    Computer Hackers News Articles
                     
     The following is a list of articles that I have found concerning the
computer underground in various magazines and news-papers. The list is in
chronological order. If you know of an article that should be included in
this list or correction, send me the information and I will add it to the
listing.

Nov 18  '90  Crackdown on computer crime is raising question of computer
             rights.
             Chicago Tribune pg.17
Oct 29  '90  Users paying big price for PBX fraud.
             Network World pg.1
Oct 28  '89  Halting hackers.
             The Economist pg.18
Oct 15  '90  Target: The Corporate PBX
             Information Week pg.24
Sept 9  '90  Can invaders be stopped but civil liberties upheld?
             The New York Times pg.F12
Sept 1  '90  United States v Zod
             The Economist pg.23
Sept    '90  Digital Desperados; hackers indictments raise constitutional
             questions.
             Scientific American pg.34
Aug 26  '90  The rights of computer users.
             Los Angles Times pg.D9
Aug 22  '90  Open sesame; in the arcane culture of computer hackers, few
             doors stay closed.
             The Wall Street Journal pg.A1
Aug 20  '90  NY State Police round up hackers.
             Computerworld pg.99
Aug 17  '90  U.S. Arrests boy, 5 others in computer hacker case.
             The Wall Street Journal pg.82
Aug 6   '90  Computer anarchism calls for a tough response.
             Business Week pg.72
Aug 6   '90  Charges dropped against alleged BellSouth hacker.
             Telephony pg.12
July 30 '90  Hacker trial begins in Chicago.
             Computerworld pg.8
July 30 '90  'Hacking' crackdown is dealt a setback in trial in Chicago
             The Wall Street Journal pg.B3
July 21 '90  Crackdown on hackers 'may violate civil rights'.
             New Scientist pg.22
July 21 '90  Group to defend civil rights of hackers founded by computer
             industry pioneer.
             The Wall Street Journal pg.B4
July 10 '90  Group to fight for computer users' rights.
             Los Angles Times pg.D5
July 10 '90  Computer hackers plead guilty in case involving BellSouth.
             The Wall Street Journal pg.84
July 2  '90  Hackers of the World, Unite!
             Newsweek pg.36
May 21  '90  Throwing the book at computer hackers.
             Business Week pg.148
May 14  '90  Justice failed in refusing to make Morris an example.
             Computerworld pg.23
May 14  '90  Morris sentence spurs debate.
             Computerworld pg.128
May 14  '90  Wheels of justice grind to a halt in 'worm' case.
             PC Week pg.16
May 7   '90  Three-year probation for Morris.
             Computerworld pg.1
May     '90  Just say No
             Communications of the ACM pg.477
May     '90  Uncovering the mystery of Shadowhawk.
             Security Management pg.26
Apr 30  '90  The hacker dragnet: the Feds put a trail on computer crooks -
             and sideswipe a few innocent bystanders.  Newsweek pg.50
March 26'90  Internet interloper targets hacker critics.
             Computerworld pg.127
March   '90  Cyber Thrash
             SPIN pg.24
March   '90  Is Computer Hacking a Crime?
             Harper's pg.45
Wntr    '90  Comp. crime and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986
             Computer Law Journal pg.71
Feb 19  '90  Morris code.
             The New Republic pg.15
Feb 12  '90  Alleged hackers charged wit theft of BellSouth 911 data.
             Telephony pg.10
Feb 12  '90  Babes in high-tech toyland nabbed.
             Computerworld pg.8
Feb 11  '90  Revenge on the nerds; sure, jail our hackers - who needs
             software stars anyway?
             Washington Post pg.C5
Feb 9   '90  Hacked to pieces.
             New Statesman and Society pg.27
Feb 2   '90  Prevention is better than cure.
             Public Finance and Accountancy pg.9
Jan 5   '90  Computer hacking: is a new law needed.
             Public Finance and Accountancy pg.7
Feb 7   '90  Four charged with scheme against phones.
             The Wall Street Journal pg.B5
Dec 4   '89  Hackers: Is a cure worse than the disease?
             Business Week pg.37
Sept    '89  Free the hacker two.
             Harper's Magazine pg.22
June 19 '89  Hacker invades So. Bell switch.
             Telephony pg.11
June    '89  Consensual realities in cyberspace
             Communication of the ACM pg.664
Apr 3   '89  Strong scruples can curb computer crime.
             Computerworld pg.100
March 9 '90  Hackers revealed as spies.
             Nature pg.108
March 6 '89  Are ATM's easy targets for crooks?
             Business Week pg.30
Feb 20  '89  Prison term for first U.S. hacker-law convict.
             Computerworld pg.1
Jan 9   '89  Hacker prosecution: suspect held, denied phone access by
             district court.
             Computerworld pg.2
Jan 9   '89  Drop the phone: busting a computer whiz.
             Time pg.49
Dec 26  '88  The Cyberpunk
             People pg.50
Dec 11  '88  Computer intruder is urged by authorities to contact the
             laboratory he invaded.
             The New York Times pg.24
Nov 14  '88  Portrait of an artist as a young hacker.
             Computerworld pg.6
Nov     '88  Robopsychology
             Omni pg.42
Aug 1   '88  Is your computer Secure?
             Business Week pg.64
Apr 28  '88  Hacker runs rings around military security.
             New Scientist pg.25
April   '88  Computer hackers follow Guttman-like progression.
             Sociology and Social Research pg.199
Oct     '87  Brian Reid, A Graphics Tale of a Hacker Tracker
             Communications of the ACM pg.820
April   '86  Positive Alternatives: A report on an ACM Panel on Hacking
             Communications of the ACM pg.297
Jan     '84  Hacking away at morality.
             Communications of the ACM pg.8

BUSYBOX

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                                                ³  Filename:
BUSYBOX
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                                                ³ Title: The Busy Box    ³
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                                                ³     By: Captain Hack   ³
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                                                ³   Released: 08/10/95   ³
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                                                ³   Danger: °°°°°°°°°°   ³
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   The busy box is just that, it makes whatever fone line it's attached to
busy. It's quick, it's easy, it's actually fairly useful at school, cause
those idiots can't figure them out. Here's the plans:

Shoppong list:

One length of 4 cond fone wire w/modular plug on one end
wire strippers
elec tape

Strip the two inside wires on the end of the fone cord that doesn't have
the plug on it (Ring/Tip or Red/Green). Twist them together, and wrap a few
times with elec tape. Yes, that's really it.

Do you REALLY need a diagrag? Ok:
   /
  /
 ----------                     red
 |        |----------------------------------\
 |        |----------------------------------/    <--- twist wires together
 ----------                      green

 ^  Mod plug


 That better be enough for you. Jesus. This is only SO hard...

 --hack

To burn a bin file

 To burn a bin file, you will need an appropriate cue file.

You do exactly the same as for iso files, but when you click on “burn image,” you don’t browse to the bin itself, but instead to the cue file, and you open that one.
When the writer starts to burn, it will automatically search for the bin file and start burning it. In fact, the cue file tells the burning program where it can find the bin file that is attached to it. It is VERY IMPORTANT that you use the right cue file when you burn a bin. i.e both cue and bin files that are attached to each other must be located in the same folder, and every bin file has it’s own cue file.


Normally, when you download a bin file, you can download the appropriate cue file as well. If you do not have the cue file (or feel bold) you can make the cue file yourself, which is really easy to do:

a. Open notepad

b. Copy the folowing text into notepad:

FILE“nameofimage“BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00

Where nameofimage.bin is the name of the bin file you want ot burn.

c. The rest is easy: just save the notepad text with the name of the bin, but with the cue extension.

d. The file should be saved in the same folder as its appropriate bin file and should be something like myfile.cue

Or you can use Alcohol 120% to burn directly from the bin file

bulk editing any format

lets us say you have just download a new album or game
but all the files are .xxx and you need them to be
zip's, rar's, mp3's etc.....
then do the following

-create a new folder
-put all the files needing editing in the new folder
-then goto "run" in the start menu
-type in CMD and click ok

-the next thing needsa few bits of old dos commands
-you need to navagate CMD to the folder whree the files are
-you can do this by 1st getting the total adress of the folder
-and then typing it in cmd with a "cd" in frount
QUOTE
cd c:\xxx\yyy\ccc\

once you in the folder where the files are you can move on
nb u can cheek you in the right folder by typing dir to get a list of files

-now type in....
QUOTE
rename *.* *.zip

Nb change the zip to what ever the extention needs to be (.rar, .mp3 ect)

all done
you should hv now changed the .* to what ever you needed

happy downloading Benji

(by Benji)

nb to exit CMD type in "exit" 

fix internet explorer

So one of your friends, “not you of course”, has managed to nuke Internet Explorer and they are unsure how they did it. You’ve eliminated the possibility of viruses and adware, so this just leaves you and a broken IE. Before you begin to even consider running a repair install of the OS, let’s try to do a repair on IE instead.

THE REPAIR PROCESS

Start the Registry Editor by typing regedit from the Run box. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Active Setup \ Installed Components \ {89820200-ECBD-11cf-8B85-00AA005B4383} and then right-click the “IsInstalled value.” Click Modify. From there, you will change the value from 1 to 0. All right, go ahead and close the editor and reinstall IE from this location. /http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx

IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG

If messing with the registry and something goes horribly wrong, you can use “Last Known Good Configuration (F8 Safe Mode)” or a Restore Point to get back to where you were before, with your settings. Then you can try again, this time taking care to watch the portion of the registry you are changing. Most people who have troubles with this end up changing the wrong registry key.

Hope this tut helps some members.

Breaker B0X

:

Breaker B0X

   This is a new b0x INVENTED AND MADE BY _--=PeEll=--_ on June 18, 1995 at
11:20 pm central time.  Okay?  This is not really a box.  This has nothing
to do with tha fone system.  It has to do with a person's (not yours) breaker
box and electrical system within his/her house.  This is foe info only.
These plans should not be use in an illegal way.  There are two wayz to make
this box.

   Materials

2 Extension cords (doesn't matter how long)
Knowledge of splicing wire
Whatever you need to splice
A plastic crate
A long thin (but strong) peice of wood (a stick, broom-handle)

   How to make it

   Take tha extension cords and cut off tha ends that you plug into tha wall
(ya know tha plugs).  Make SuRe you have about four-five inchs on both.  Now
splice tha two plugs together.  *****If they have tha third prong you have to
break it off*****  You should have something like this:

=|)-------(|=

   Now to use it

   Go to tha enimies house and find an outside power outlet.  Plug one of tha
plugs into one of tha outlets.  THEN GET ON THA CRATE!!!  Make SuRe that no
part of you is touching tha ground.  Then plug tha other end in (cause there
is usally two sockets).  Watch tha sparcks.  It may start a fire.  When it
stops lighting up tha ski, take tha stick or whatever put it in tha loop and
pull it out.  Grab it and run.

   Materials (foe tha second kind)

1 Extention cord
1 Bucket of Salt water (like a 5 gallon bucket filled with a lot of salt)

   Cut tha cord so you have about six-seven feet of cord.  Now find an
outside power outlet and plug in tha cord (might wanna get a crate).  Now you
have a LIVE wire.  THROW (so you are not holding it) into tha bucket of
water.  You may have to leave tha breaker box there.

   This b0x is KewL cause if it doesn't trip tha breakers or fuses it will
fry tha wires in tha house!!!  If something is running and using electricity
it may blow it (ie lights, TV, things like that).

_--=PeEll=--_(tm)

Boot windows fast

Boot windows fast

Follow the following steps

1. Open notepad.exe, type "del c:\windows\prefetch\ntosboot-*.* /q" (without the quotes) & save as "ntosboot.bat" in c:\
2. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type "gpedit.msc".
3. Double click "Windows Settings" under "Computer Configuration" and double click again on "Shutdown" in the right window.
4. In the new window, click "add", "Browse", locate your "ntosboot.bat" file & click "Open".
5. Click "OK", "Apply" & "OK" once again to exit.
6. From the Start menu, select "Run..." & type "devmgmt.msc".
7. Double click on "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers"
8. Right click on "Primary IDE Channel" and select "Properties".
9. Select the "Advanced Settings" tab then on the device or 1 that doesn't have 'device type' greyed out select 'none' instead of 'autodetect' & click "OK".
10. Right click on "Secondary IDE channel", select "Properties" and repeat step 9.
11. Reboot your computer.