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- AlarmNet Hacklist becomes international !
-
- It has been a year now that an international hackreport has been released.
- Lee Jackson brought out his report every month until October 1993, when he
- had to stop because of back-injury. Since then nobody was found to take over
- the hackreport definitely I started a discussion in the Virus-echo's of
- FidoNet about this last summer. I became some reactions of persons in the US
- who agreed with me that it was time that someone should take over but at the
- end of the summer there was still no hackreport. There was a hackreport in
- February 1994, but that was one of no value.
-
- Since November 1992 the AlarmNet issues the Dutch Hacklist every month. We
- started the hacklist because we had the opinion at that time not every hack
- in the Netherlands became listed in the hackreport of Lee. Further was the
- communication between FidoNet and alternets in the Netherlands not ideal.
- Many hacks reported in the AlarmNet hacklist became known by reports in
- Alternets. This had also to do with the "competition" between the FidoNets
- here in the Netherlands. The AlarmNet Hacklist has always been Dutch and
- also the language used. Tim Rutteman, Steven Hendriks and Hans Govaarts made
- great effort to establish this hacklist.
-
- Because there was still no international hacklist in September 1994 we
- decided that we also would collect hacks reported from outside the Nether-
- lands. The only information we could get was information that we read in the
- international Fido-virus echo's. This is, to what we think, not very much.
- In the beginning of December we issued hacklist number 16 with 4 new
- international lists, in which quite a few hacks were listed. We also
- published this list in the international virus-echo's. This was something
- that hit the spot. I received reactions from especcially Germany and Great
- Britain via netmail. One conclusion of this was very clear; People were
- interested in the hacklist! We thought about it a few weeks and we decided
- to take action concerning the hacklist.
-
- We intend to do the following:
-
- * The hacklist is now Dutch. We will issue a hacklist in the English
- language in January 1995. We will then continue issueing this list every
- tho months. This new international hacklist will be completely new. We
- will try to give more information of a hack found than was before in any
- earlier hacklist/-report. The first time that this hacklist will be
- issued, it will contain information about hacks of a couple of years
- before and is very often incomplete regarding to the new look this
- hacklist will have. Not all the information for this is available anymore.
- But from January 1995 we will maintain the hacklist to the new standards.
-
- The hacklist we have in mind will have the following
- fieldnames:
-
- -> Number - each hack will obtain a number
- -> Filename - the name of the file without the extension
- -> Alias - connections with an other file reported earlier.
- -> Group - a degree between hacks will be made from dangerous to
- harmless.
- -> Extension - the (sort of) extension of the filename reported.
- -> Kind - the kind of program (e.g. Game, BBS-Util, virusscanner).
- -> Date - date of report.
- -> Reporter - name of reporter.
- -> Nodenumber - the nodenumber of the reporter.
- -> Origin - the place of the hack found or name of CDROM.
- -> Spreading - the way the hack has been spread (e.g. upload to BBS).
- -> Description - a short description of the hack.
-
- The hacklist will not be one or more ascii-files but will be supported by
- a program. A convenient reader has already been developed...
-
- * We want to find people that are willing to hatch this hacklist. Maybe we
- can put the hacklist somewhere on a backbone.
-
- * For this list we need information. Lee Jackson had his hack-squad and he
- was very succesful with this. We also want to have a hack-squad. In the
- Netherlands this was also for us very succesful. With the AlarmNet
- grounded in 1992 we have a group of 40 sysops that are connected to
- various nets. When having such a fine group we can help each other when
- someone has e.g. a doubtful file or having virus-problems. This hack-squad
- we want to start with will be listed within one of the following versions
- of the hacklist. Communications can be established in the following ways :
-
- -> An international Fido-echo can be created. How about an area named
- HACKS.
-
- -> Via netmail.
-
- -> Bad File Finder (see below).
-
- You want to join us ? Netmail me on nodenumber 2:282/208.
-
- * I'm a programmer myself. I issue the program Bad File Finder every two
- months. The main objectives of the program is :
-
- -> Scanning your HD for hacks (Lee Jackons's report and AlarmNet hack-
- list).
-
- -> Scanning archives on your HD or CDROM for viruses.
-
- -> A powerful netmail-function (more of the netmail-function to come in
- future versions).
-
- -> The program is freeware for non-commercial usage and it will always
- remain that way.
-
- When we succeed in forming a hack-squad I will create a new version of BFF
- where people will be informed via netmail about new hacks and new versi-
- ons.
-
- * We want to have contact to Lee Jackson and we want to have his permission
- to implement his list in ours. Maybe someone can help...
-
- We hope that we succeed bringing people together the way Lee did before and
- that you show understanding for that what we are doing now. There hasn't
- been an international hacklist for over a year now. Someone has to take the
- initiative to start a new international hacklist. I know that there are in
- the US also people that make hackreports. Maybe that someone can tell me how
- to contact them.
-
- I wish you all a merry Xmas and a happy and healthy new year !
-
- On behalf of the AlarmNet,
-
- Regards,
- Hans Govaarts, AlarmNet HQ.