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Below are original articles written by HNN administrators or
submisions from affiliates.
2000
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Written By: McIntyre
May 10, 2000
The media frenzy surrounding the ILOVEYOU or 'Love Bug' virus/worm has
resulted in several contridictions within the press. Even the National
Bureau of Investigation can't seem to gets its facts straight. Things
like names, relationships, and damage estimates would seem to be pretty
standard and easy things to report on, or are they?
The Name Game: Groking the Love Bug
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Written By: Brian Martin
February 10, 2000
So what exactly is going on out there? What are these denial of service
attacks that are taking down high profile sites left and right? What
makes these sorts of attacks succeed? Why hasn't anyone been caught
yet? Will anyone get caught? How do I protect myself? Who's fault is
it?
Everyone seems to have questions but no one seems to have answers.
Have Script, Will Destroy (Lessons in DoS)
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Written By: Coris Neme
February 7, 2000
Last weeks CERT advisory covering cross site scripting has left a lot
of people wondering what exactly CERT is up to. Considering the
problem is years old and already patched by most applications is CERT
just spreading FUD?
CERT warning? What, me worry?
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Written By: YT Cracker
January 31, 2000
Japan's Defense Agency moved to barricade itself against computer hackers
on Friday, saying a wave of attacks on government web sites this week
could represent a 'grave threat' to national security. With a look at what
seems to be the most reported on story of last week by the mainstream
media (Reuters did nine separate articles) YT cracker took a cursory look
at the some of the systems in the .go.jp domain. What he found probably
won't shock anyone who has been around for a while but everyone else may
be surprised.
The Japanese Panic
Project
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Written By: Carole Fennelly
January 14, 2000
Last Monday's Buffer Overflow article about the threat of scene whores
caused a lot of heated email to arrive here at HNN. In response we have
posted this rebuttal from Carole Fennelly, SunWorld columnist, to the
article.
A Well Known But Overlooked
Threat to Hackers: Themselves
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Written by: Render Man
January 13, 2000
How bad is the AV Industry? Does it need to be reformed? Does scanning
for one piece of software because of the intent of the author and not
the user make sense? How about scanning for legitimate security tools
simply because they have extreme power when used by malicous people?
Reform the AV Industry
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Written By: YT Cracker
January 7, 2000
What do billions of dollars, billions of useless books, and billions of
prophetic statements have in common? If you guessed the now infamous
Y2K rollover, you are correct. Just because Y2K has come and gone does
not mean that we can relax and breath a collective sigh of relief. Now
is the time to gear up for the real challenges that lay ahead, security.
Gangly Mentality:The story of the great Y2K swindle and what is to come.
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Written By: evenprime
January 3, 2000
Y2K has come and gone and left most people pretty much unscathed. The
massive effort to clean up messy code over the last few years looks like
it has paid off. What can be learnd from this? How can this be applied
to writing secure software for the coming millenium?
New Era
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