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Back Orifice author develops new Trojan
News The author of Back Orifice, Sir Dystic who is a leading hacker at Cult of the Dead Cow, has revealed plans to develop an ingenious new Trojan technique that has even got anti-virus experts impressed. It wouldn't be very difficult to configure it so...
[November 8, 1999, 10:00]
Back Orifice problems lead to pain for Snort
News The exploit code, published on the Web by FrSirt on Tuesday, demonstrates how vulnerabilities in a Snort sensor designed to detect an exploit tool called Back Orifice can be subject to a buffer overflow attack.
[October 27, 2005, 9:45]
Back Orifice 2.0 going legit?
News "I think you can guarantee that there will be a 'Back Orifice for Dummies' book" -- That's what Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) member Tweety Fish hoped would be one outcome of Saturday's blockbuster debut of the new, open-source version of Back...
[July 12, 1999, 10:16]
Warning: Back Orifice threat this Saturday
News Mathew Bevan, and ex-hacker who now works for UK-based Tiger Security says: "The security community really hasn't latched onto Back Orifice and the anti-virus measure won't be ready until the day after it's been released, so it could case some...
[July 8, 1999, 11:08]
Netscape flaw worse than 'Back Orifice'?
News In his message, Dan Brumleve released an example of the vulnerability and called it Brown Orifice, an allusion to the infamous computer vandal tool Back Orifice. But "Brown Orifice" only allows computer vandals to view and read a victim's files...
[August 8, 2000, 9:54]
New Back Orifice promises NT break-ins
News Back Orifice is at the centre of one of the key debates in the security industry -- while the Cult maintains it produced the software to reveal security flaws in Microsoft products, and ultimately make them safer, Microsoft says that's just a...
[July 8, 1999, 15:26]
New Back Orifice-like Trojan horse found
News Such "remote administration tools" started to surface last year when Back Orifice was released by a group calling itself the Cult of the Dead Cow. The Trojan horse arrives in a user's e-mail posing as a screen saver or game update, but once...
[May 28, 1999, 8:51]
Back Orifice creator's new projects
News Windows hides far too much of what is going on," said the laid-back programmer from the CDC's suite at DEF CON 7. "Sir Dystic" -- the hacker behind the original BackOrifice program released at last year's DEF CON -- plans to release two other...
[July 13, 1999, 9:16]
A Year Ago: Back Orifice creator's new projects
News Windows hides far too much of what is going on," said the laid-back programmer from the CDC's suite at DEF CON 7. BackOrifice 2000 is not the only program being released by the media-friendly hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow.
[July 14, 2000, 7:30]
Sir Dystic's claims rubbished
News Revelling in the infamy he created for himself at this week's DEFCON in Las Vegas, computer hacker Sir Dystic, of the hacker clan ‘Cult of the Dead Cow', reckons the program - Back Orifice - can be sent to a victim without being noticed, a...
[August 6, 1998, 17:05]
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]
Open source security push gets $20m
News Snort encountered security problems in October, with exploit code being published that demonstrated how vulnerabilities in a Snort sensor designed to detect an exploit tool called Back Orifice can be subject to a buffer overflow attack.
[June 2, 2006, 17:15]
Hackers: BO2K 'child's play' remark draws fire
News A bizarre example of how well publicised Back Orifice has been is that ISS reportedly asked the Cult of the Dead Cow for a Beta version of the program. "That does seem a bit glib," says Paul Brette of Data Fellows Anti-Virus in the UK.
[July 16, 1999, 16:07]
EngCalc (Hydraulic) - Windows Mobile Calculator Software
Downloads Of Pipe)Pressure Loss Through ValvesPumping Cost (Ductile Iron pipe)Relative Capacities of PipesReynolds Number and Laminar FlowSpeedSpeed of an ActuatorTank Capacity, Surface Area and Metal WeightTank Overflow and Vent Nozzle SizesTime Req.to...
[April 4, 2006, 8:00]
ProPort
Downloads ProPort comes with a default list of 300 common trojan ports to monitor (SubSeven, NetBus, Back Orifice, etc), and can be editted by the user. From the developer: ""ProPort is a trojan/nuke protection program.
[August 15, 2002, 6:41]
Retool delays hackers' free-speech app
News The group is best known for releasing a program to remotely control PCs -- called, in their up-front style, Back Orifice -- to thousands of hackers worldwide. An ambitious attempt by an international coalition of hackers to create a file-sharing...
[June 28, 2001, 14:16]
Surveillance 2: Does it all ad up?
News That's the time-honoured principle behind Trojan horse programs like Back Orifice. Comet Cursors, a browser add-in that transforms an ordinary mouse pointer into a custom image at partner sites, sent serial numbers (stored in a cookie, naturally...
[February 25, 2000, 9:45]
Cult of the Dead Cow releases BO2K
News The Cult of the Dead Cow on Wednesday released its controversial Back Orifice 2000 hacking tool over the Internet. BO2K, which debuted at the DEF CON hacking conference Saturday, is now available for free download at cDc's Web site.
[July 15, 1999, 8:46]
News Burst: Trojan horse alert
News According to the hacker site Rootshell the trojan has turned up in the US and Australia and is not related to the 'Back Orifice' system released by cDc's 'Sir Dystic'. Look out for email subject: FREE!
[August 11, 1998, 11:42]
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]
