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- Issue Number: 47
- Release Date: May 21, 1988
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- Recent news:
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- Employees at the First National Bank of Chicago were caught in an attempt to
- steal $70 million through computers and wire transfers. There have been many
- articles on this and I could take up about three issues by typing up the six
- articles on it that I have found but I would much rather just print a single
- article that covers everything and is very short. This article is very short
- but explains what happened. It comes from USA TODAY. The date of the article is
- May 20, 1988.
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- TITLE: $70M Bank Scam is Foiled; 7 Charged
- FROM: USA TODAY
- DATE: May 20, 1988
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- Seven men were charged Wednesday in a sophisticated scheme to steal $70
- million from First National Bank of Chicao through wire transfers to Vienna,
- Austria. Four men were in custody. Two bank employees- Otis Wilson and Gabriel
- Taylor- are accused of providing confidential code words needed for money
- transfers by computer. The money- from corporate accounts of Merrill Lynch,
- United Air Lines and a liquor company -was recovered from the new accounts.
- Bank spokesman Tony Zehnder called it one of the biggest-ever "almost-crimes."
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- NOTA:
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- TITLE: Long-distance Bill is a Monkey on his Back
- FROM: The Chicago Sun-Times
- DATE: MAY 20, 1988
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- Dear Action Time: Take a gander at my phone bill. It's a nightmare.
- This all began in Febrary, when my long-distance company, MidAmerica in
- Omaha, Neb., sent a $540 bill. I tried calling but the firm wouldn't accept my
- call. I tried writing but never got an answer. But I did get a March bill for
- a whopping $507.50.
- Illinois Bell provided me with a special toll-free number for Mid America.
- A clerk took my call, assured me it was a computer error and promised
- everything would be OK. Whew! Thank Goodness.
- Unfortunately, my relief was short-lived, because my next bill was for
- $2,045.04. Look at all those calls, 33 pages of them. It looks like a
- chimpanzee compiled it. The calls cover practically the entire country. I'm 74
- years old and on a fixed income. I've got enough sense to realize I couln't
- never make that many calls and pay for them. I tried to contact that same
- clerk, but she was out to lunch and never returned my call. Am I up a tree?
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- elrose Park
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- Dear Mute: With the chimp? All kidding aside, Janet Moss told us she had
- processed two credits to cover the total bill. But for some reason, the
- credits were still mirred down in the office machinery. Moss, customer services
- manager, assured us they will get through.
- In the meantime, you may still get hit with a few bogus calls on your next
- bill. Ignore them, said Moss, who also clarified the error: long-distance
- fraud.
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- NOTA:
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- And some people still wonder how a code can last for months without someone
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- TITLE: Attack of the Computer Crackers
- FROM: Image: The Magazine of Northern California
- DATE:
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- A T T A C K O F T H E C O M P U T E R C R A C K E R S
- The New Wave of Juvenile Techno-Delinquents
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- And now that high-tech mischeif has moved from the realm of alienated whiz
- kids to mainstream teens, a new wave of so-called computer "Crackers" is
- taking form--one wider, deeper, and better organized than ever before.
- The Nation had better hang on tight to its data bases.
- An electronic mail system furthers the culture, as members message each
- other's computers via the phone lines. Computer files where any member is
- free to deposit a message are called electronic bulletin boards. There is
- really no way to count the number of crackers exchanging tips and techniques
- this way--certainly they number in the thousands. Here is one of the many
- Manifesto's:
- "This is our world now ... The world of the electron and the switch, the
- beauty of the baud. We make use of a service that already exists without
- paying for what could be dirt cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons,
- and you call us criminals. We explore, and you call us criminals. We seek
- after knowledge, and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color,
- without nationality, without religious bias, and you call us criminals. You
- build atomic bombs, wage wars, you murder, you cheat and lie to us and try to
- make us believe it is for our own good, yet we're the criminals."
- "Yes! I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of
- judging people by what they think and say, not what they look like. My crime
- is that of outsmarting you, something you will never forgive me for. I am a
- hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't
- stop us all. After all, we're all alike."
- To make an impact in the phreak/hack world, you have to be busted or do
- something major. This is the code of Cyberpunk, a real-life version of the
- high-tech, low-life vision of science-fiction writer William Gibson.
- One underground publication, 'Phrack World News', even prints electronic
- profiles of well-known crackers such as Lord Digital. Copies of 'Phrack' are
- electronically passed between underground BBS systems, where they cana user with the special "security clearance."
- Many crackers go by this version of Cyberpunk, "I'm smart but I party. I'm
- reckless, but I'm reponsible. I'm very childlike at times, and at other times
- I can be very serious. I'm different than everyone else in my high school."
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- "a new wave of so-called computer 'Crackers'"
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- Actually hackers would be a better name since crackers is a word that describes
- people who remove the copy-protection from software.
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- "Here is one of the many
- Manifesto's:"
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- What was printed is part of a file on hackers and what they stand for. It was
- an anonymous file written a few years ago and I have seen it around on several
- bulletin boards.
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- "To make an impact in the phreak/hack world, you have to be busted or
- do something major."
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- I have heard stories of people who TRY to get busted so that they can get
- their name in the paper and be famous. As for doing something "major" there
- are many tall tales in the phreak/hack world by pseudo-hackers and some
- pseudo-phreaks who are trying to get a name for themselves.
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- "One underground publication, 'Phrack World News', even prints electronic
- profiles of well-known crackers such as Lord Digital."
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- Phrack World News (PWN) is a regular feature of Phrack Magazine. It gives
- details on the latest happenings and is very similar to TNS. Unfortunately,
- Phrack World News has practically died since Knight Lightning has quit
- writing it. The profile on Lord Digital is unknown to me, but the profile
- wouldn't be a part of PWN.
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- "Copies of 'Phrack' are electronically passed between underground
- BBS systems, where they can be read by a user with the special 'security clearance.'"
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- Phrack is availiable to all people and is spread without discrimination. It
- is freely distributed and no one needs any security clearance to read it. I
- swear to god... this sounds like something that Oryan QUEST wrote.
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- THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION COMES FROM BITNET....
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- 227 Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1988 10:07 From: Wash <WASH> Subject: Hacker hits
- VMS
- Date: Thu, 17 Mar 88 22:26:43 GMT From:
- "XMRP20000[khw]-g.c.mccoury" Subject: Hacker hits VMS
- From The Star-Ledger(Newark NJ) 3/17/88
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- TEEN HACKER 'INVADES' NEW SECURE COMPUTER
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- PARIS(Reuters)- A 19-year-old West German hacker has succeeded
- in breaking the world's top-selling computers,
- Digital Equipment Corp.'s VAX system, in what experts say is a
- new blow to confidence in computer security.
- Computer specialists broke the news yesterday at a computer
- conference already shocked by the arrest on Sunday of West
- German hacker Steffen Wernery, 26, as he arrived to take part
- in a panel debate on system security.
- Wernery is a member of the Hamburg-based Chaos Computer
- Club which caused a storm last year when it revealed it had
- penetrated more than 100 computers around the world, including Enter a
- carriage return to see the next page or S to stop... y NASA.
- French police announced later that Wernery had been charged
- with "theft, destruction and damaging computer goods" and had
- been jailed pending trial.
- West German journalist and computer expert Hans Gliss, who
- was also held briefly by French police when he arrived in Paris
- on Sunday, said the unidentified 19-year-old from Munich had
- worked out how to enter VAX computers made by Digital.
- Gliss said the Munich hacker had breached the VAX system by
- using material openly available from Digital, which is based in
- Maynard, Mass.
- Digital executives were in a meeting and not available for
- comment, a spokeswoman said.
- Rudiger Dierstein, of West Germany's national space foundation
- DFVLR, said the consequences of the Munich hacker's achievement
- were "terrifying."
- "This person has given a full description of how to gain access
- to the system and gain full control. Imagine combining the
- intelligence of this hacker with a definite criminal intention,"
- he said.
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- Introduction to TNS Magazine
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- Introduction to Issue #2
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- They Sure Can Talk in Raleigh
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- Teaching Computer Ethics in the Schools
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- Cash-Machine Magician
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- Cheaper Electronics Makes It a Snap to Snoop
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- Los Alamos Nuclear Facility Security Boost
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- Making Computers Snoop-Proof
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- War Against Phone Hacking Heats Up
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- Toll Fraud Trial Sets New Tone
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- Cellular Technology
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- Pirate BBS
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- Scanning Bust
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- Rip Offs
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- How the Soviets Are Bugging America
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- Deadly Bugs
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- The Newest Dating Game
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- Electronic Cryptot
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- HD Sentry: Hard Disk Protection from Trojan Horse Programs
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- Check This: Ma Bell is a Generous Soul
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- Sign In and then Sign On
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- How To Beat Phone Assault
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- Prisoner Phone Phreaks
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- Suburban Kids Are Too Dumb to Steal
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- Federal Sting Nets 25 for Cellular Phone Fraud in NYC
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- 18 Are Seized in Illegal Use of Mobile Telephones
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- Hello Anywhere
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- Keeping the Secrets Inside the Computer
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- Bugging
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- Urine Hot-Line
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- Innovation? Just Hold the Phone
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- The National Guards
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- The Caller That Isn't Long-Winded
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- A Call to Stop Long-Distance Scam
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- Online Junkies- Artificial Intelligence
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- Hacking Through NASA: A Threat- Or Only an Embarassment
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- The Bust of Shadow Hawk
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- Shadow Hawk's Bust: Continued from TNS Issue #10
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- US Sprint Sues "Ring" of Hackers for $20 Million
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- The Blue Box and Ma Bell
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- Capt. Zap: Informant?
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- 411: Life at Directory Assistance
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- The Max Headroom TV Pirate
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- The Celling of America
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- Tales That Do Not Compute
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- Responses to Issue #12's Article
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- Introduction: TNS QuickNotes
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- New Security Measures at ITT
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- Capt. Zap's Defense
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- 2600 Magazine's Official Bulletin Boards
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- Some Things about Phrack Inc.
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- Syndicate Report: Will It Return?
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- 'If You Need Help, Press 3'
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- Satellite Paging
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- AT&T's Attempt at a Comeback
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- The 1-900 Report
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- AT&T and Sun Microsystems
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- AT&T Credit Card Fraud Causes a $5,430 Bill
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- TNS Issue Directory
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- FON Card Review
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- Credit Card Fraud Arrests
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- Radio ANI
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- Dial-a-Porn Restrictions
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- Changes at 2600
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- 1-900 Abuses
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- Return of The Rebel
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- Problems for Mafia Dude
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- The Foreign Legion
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- Return of the Private Connection
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- Computer Terrorism!
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- Changes at 2600 Magazine
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- Virus Report
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- Viruses Threatening an Era of Computer Freedom
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- The Tulsa Busts
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- Telecom Update
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- Federal Phone Snafu
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- The Trojan Wars
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- Computer Systems Under Seige
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- Computer Terror
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- Youths Suspected in Phone Fraud
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- Breaking and Entering: High Tech Style
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- Multi-State Computer Theft Ring
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- Virus Wars
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- Is Your Computer Infected?
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- Capt. Zap
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- Names in the News
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- Mafia Dude Interview
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- Changes at US Sprint
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- Chaos Computer Club Member Questioned by Authorities
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- Pirated Software Seized
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- Viruses
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- Federal Phone Privacy Suit
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- Anti-Piracy Fund Established
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- Another PC Virus
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- Computing a Bit of Security
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- Computer Secrets
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- FBI Computer Plans
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- Berkley Whiz Tracks German Hacker
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- Telecom Update
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- Crime in the Computer Age
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