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L0pht's Anti-Sniff can only be used for good

Computer security think-tank L0pht Heavy Industries on Monday released the first version of its Anti-Sniff... Read more

31 August, 1999 by Will Knight

Open Sources: The other side of the story

...developers. Mudge disagreed. "We had an evolutionary life cycle over at the L0pht on how we released advisories," he recalled. "At the very beginning, we... Read more

13 December, 2000 by Lewis Z.Koch

Anti-Sniff software inadequate - BugTraq

Anti-probing software released by hacking group L0pht Industries on Friday has been attacked as inadequate by contributors to the... Read more

27 July, 1999 by Will Knight

Symantec acquires @stake

...October, but terms were not disclosed. @stake was founded by members of "l0pht", one of the original "grey hat" hacker groups. Originally, such groups wanted... Read more

17 September, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

Hacker Mitnick testifies before Senate

Fresh out of prison, the convicted hacker is the star witness at US Senate hearings on computer security Read more

3 March, 2000 by Joel Deane

Meet the hackers

...The individual better known simply as Mudge, talks about the origins of L0pht Crack -- a password cracker for Windows-based systems which he wrote to... Read more

12 May, 2004 by Patrick Gray

How to clean up in IT security: A basic guide

...water. The team at @Stake, which was formed by the hacking crew l0pht, also looks set to sail after last week's announcement that Symantec... Read more

27 September, 2004 by Patrick Gray

What the hack did he say?

...the recent joint venture among a group of hackers known as the L0pht, Compaq Computer and Forrester Research that involves $10 million in venture capital... Read more

13 December, 2000 by Lewis Z.Koch

CERT to disclose software flaws

...That last behaviour was what another "grey hat" group, known as The L0pht -- who now make up a large part of the research arm of... Read more

9 October, 2000 by Robert Lemos

Symantec hacked - UK boss says no war with hackers

...viruses or any sort of mobile code," he says. One member of L0pht Industries a hacking group which has just released its own anti-hacking... Read more

2 August, 1999 by Will Knight

British hackers: Spotty teenagers they ain't

...just more people over there. Space Rogue, of US based security firm L0pht, believes there are some important technical distinctions between hacking practices in the... Read more

16 July, 1999 by Will Knight

Security expert blasts shoddy software

...all your systems? Well, yes, they do," said Mudge, the head of L0pht Heavy Industries -- a collection of hackers bent on improving the Internet's... Read more

9 July, 1999 by Robert Lemos

Does the media cause hacking?

...no other motives besides fame." Space Rogue works with the security group L0pht Heavy Industries and runs the Hacker News Network, an underground information site... Read more

6 July, 1999 by Robert Lemos

IIS, Site Server vulnerable to hackers

...Microsoft to the problem two weeks ago. Friday, security experts at the L0pht also issued an advisory on the problem. "For e-commerce servers this... Read more

10 May, 1999 by Mary Jo Foley

Hackers whack ColdFusion users

Last week, L0pht, a site that devotes itself to discussions on computer security, posted a... Read more

30 April, 1999 by Jim Kerstetter

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