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Anti-Sniff software inadequate - BugTraq
News The current trend for hackers to produce their own security software was pioneered by the virus writing group Cult of the Dead Cow which released its own "remote system administrative tool" Back Orifice 2000, earlier this month.
[July 27, 1999, 11:28]
Anti-censorship software still under development
News The project, originally announced by hacker-group-cum-performance-artists Cult of the Dead Cow nearly two years ago and developed by a small group of social hackers known as Hacktivismo, has now been left to Baranowski and DeVilla after work on...
[February 19, 2002, 9:55]
DEF CON: Fear and fascination in Las Vegas
News We hope they can get it right this time," said one member of the Cult of the Dead Cow, a media-oriented hacker group that released a program that has the potential to control remote Windows 9x computers.
[August 4, 1998, 14:09]
Trojan horse maps drive, lifts addresses
News A file map like that could be very useful with Back Orifice, though it is by no means necessary to use that to cause problems with BO," said a spokesperson for the hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow identifying himself as Tweety Fish.
[January 14, 1999, 15:38]
Encryption tool gives privacy buffs new image
News Hacktivismo, which claims to be affiliated with Cult of the Dead Cow, expects to release Camera/Shy at the H2K2 conference on 13 July, 2002. Many have opined that the technology underestimates the skills of surveillance experts and give novice...
[July 8, 2002, 8:32]
Grey Hats, Black Hats, and Script Kiddies
News Grey hats experiment with the grey areas as a means of learning more," says "Oxblood Ruffin," the "Foreign Minister" of well-known hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc). According to Mark Loveless, Senior Security Analyst for Bindview, the bulk...
[April 5, 2000, 13:59]
Retool delays hackers' free-speech app
News Part of a group of hackers and performance artists known as the Cult of the Dead Cow, or cDc, Ruffian announced the project last July at another pro-hacker convention, Hacking on Planet Earth 2000, in New York City.
[June 28, 2001, 14:16]
Mitnick gains friends in high places
News Twenty-seven year old "Freqout," from the law-abiding hacker clique Cult of the Dead Cow, came to protest Mitnick's supervision conditions -- which prohibit him from using computers and cell phones for up to three years following his release.
[June 7, 1999, 13:29]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Flicking the power switch proved only that there was something very badly wrong with either the motherboard or the processor: I might as well have been praying at a cargo cult shrine made of sand and cow dung.
[July 22, 2005, 18:45]
L0pht's Anti-Sniff can only be used for good
News Particularly notorious "security" tools that have doubled as useful cracking applications include the remote access tool Back Orifice 2000 from another group of "security consultants", Cult of the Dead Cow, and a password spoofing application...
[August 31, 1999, 16:47]
MTV's fake hacker rebuked by peers
News When Back Orifice 2000 came out, Cult of the Dead Cow had a whole public relations operation going," he said. Editor of popular hacking magazine 2600, Emmanual Goldstein, has issued a statement that primarily denounces MTV's treatment of the whole...
[October 21, 1999, 15:53]
Symantec hacked - UK boss says no war with hackers
News Symantec recently criticised one such group, Cult of the Dead Cow, after it announced its own plans to make anti-virus software. I have no doubt that this is just the consequence of being a high profile anti-virus firm.
[August 2, 1999, 16:52]
Rootkits: a tech guide review
Reviews Perhaps the best known rootkit is BackOrifice from Cult of the Dead Cow (I kid you not). I've written before about the dangers of remote access Trojan horses (RATs). The use of volatile memory makes later forensics almost impossible because there's...
[November 15, 2005, 8:05]
Back Orifice creator's new projects
News The first, dubbed CDC Protector, is intended to block viruses and so-called Trojan Horse programs from throwing a monkey wrench into the computerised works of users that may not know better. Windows hides far too much of what is going on," said the...
[July 13, 1999, 9:16]
