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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]
A Year Ago: Hackers question Denial of Service as political protest
News The Electrohippies take on Cult of the Dead Cow in hacking legitimacy dispute A row has broken out between UK Internet activists, the Electrohippies, and US ethical hacking group, Cult of the Dead Cow, over whether Denial of Service attacks are a...
[March 13, 2001, 6:03]
Hackers question Denial of Service as political protest
News A row has broken out between UK Internet activists, the Electrohippies, and US ethical hacking group, Cult of the Dead Cow, over whether Denial of Service attacks are a legitimate form of Internet activism.
[March 13, 2000, 11:30]
Finjan shifts sand to beat virus Cult
News Internet security firm Finjan has released a 'sandbox' product to isolate executable file viruses just a week after an announcement by virus-writing group Cult of the Dead Cow that it will force improvements in virus security.
[July 20, 1999, 16:48]
Hackers: BO2K 'child's play' remark draws fire
News The BO2K virus was released by media-savvy hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow to coincide with the Def Con 7.0 computer security extravaganza held in Las Vegas last weekend. But Brette sees other reasons to be concerned by the release of BO2K, He...
[July 16, 1999, 16:07]
Hackers to release anti-censorship tool
News The group behind the application is the Cult of the Dead Cow, a team of white hat (non-criminal) computer hackers best known for producing security tools that exploit weaknesses in Microsoft software.
[April 30, 2001, 13:29]
Cult's anti-virus notions laughable - AV industry
News After unleashing the Window's "administrative tool" BO2K last week -- itself hit by the CIH virus -- Cult of the Dead Cow, bragged that it is working on two more "security" applications, CDC Protector and CDC System Monitor, in the coming weeks.
[July 19, 1999, 11:37]
Hong Kong Hackers do exist... honest
News High profile hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow has hit back at claims that it fabricated the existence of a Hong Kong based team of politically motivated hackers called The Hong Kong Blondes. In July of last year, "Oxblood", a member of the Cult...
[August 23, 1999, 12:24]
New Back Orifice promises NT break-ins
News With great fanfare at a Las Vegas trade show, the hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow will release a new version of its Back Orifice tool. Back Orifice is at the centre of one of the key debates in the security industry -- while the Cult maintains it...
[July 8, 1999, 15:26]
Hackers flexing political muscles
News Afterwards, he even returned to centre stage for a cameo appearance with the high-profile hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc). Biafra -- during a keynote punctuated with barbs aimed at the "straight media", US vice president Al Gore, the term...
[July 17, 2000, 9:02]
Denial of Service attacks loom in GM food protest
News A member of US hacking group the Cult of the Dead Cow, which was responsible for producing a number of well-known hacking tools, issued a statement recently, outlining his objections to using these tactics.
[March 16, 2000, 16:27]
A Year Ago: Denial of Service attacks loom in GM food protest
News A member of US hacking group the Cult of the Dead Cow, which was responsible for producing a number of well-known hacking tools, issued a statement recently, outlining his objections to using these tactics.
[March 16, 2001, 6:03]
A Year Ago: Back Orifice creator's new projects
News BackOrifice 2000 is not the only program being released by the media-friendly hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow. The first, dubbed CDC Protector, is intended to block viruses and so-called Trojan Horse programs from throwing a monkey wrench into...
[July 14, 2000, 7:30]
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. Sir Dystic made the revelation while visiting...
[November 8, 1999, 10:00]
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]
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]
Software licence tied to human rights
News Crafted by Hacktivismo, a hacking group organised by the Cult of the Dead Cow, the Hacktivismo enhanced-source software licence agreement (HESSLA) says that anyone using code released under it must respect privacy, free expression, due process and...
[November 28, 2002, 8:22]
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. He did not know immediately whether any data had been stolen but said he suspected there have been...
[May 28, 1999, 8:51]
DefCon: hacking for human rights
News Started by the Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc), a group of hackers and performance artists, the project's first goal will be to finish an application known as Peekabooty, which will form the infrastructure of such a private network.
[July 17, 2001, 9:50]
Activists unveil stealth browser
News The browser is the work of Hacktivismo, which operates under the aegis of the influential hacking group the Cult of the Dead Cow. The browser, called Torpark, is a modified version of Portable Firefox, and can be run directly from a USB drive...
[September 22, 2006, 17:00]
