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==Phrack Inc.== Volume One, Issue 7, Phile #8 of 10 PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN *^=-> Phrack World News <-=^* PWN PWN PWN PWN Issue VI/Part 1 PWN PWN PWN PWN Compiled and Written by PWN PWN PWN PWN Knight Lightning PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN Oryan QUEST Vs. Dan Pasquale June 21, 1986 ---------------------------- Yes, our buddy from the west coast is back in action, this time against Oryan QUEST. Oryan QUEST was busted on April 6, 1986 (See PWN Issue IV Part 2), for hacking AT&T Mail, by the San Mateo Police Department and the FBI. Because of legal technicalities, the charges were dropped but, Oryan's computer was confiscated and never returned. He has since bought a new computer (IBM AT) and is now back among us. It is believed that someone (Dan Pasquale?) must have found Oryan's notebook which contained his passwords on to bulletin boards around the country. One example of this is "The Radio Station Incident" (See PWN Issue IV Part 3) where a fake Oryan QUEST wandered the BBS and when questioned as to his legitimacy quickly dropped carrier. Most recently Oryan QUEST has been getting job offers in computer security. He hasn't accepted any at this time. Also he has been getting several calls from Dan Pasquale. Dan wants Oryan's help to bust any and all hackers/phreaks. Dan is very pissed these days because someone charged $1100.00 worth of Alliance Teleconferences to his phone bill and now he wants revenge. He has stated that one of his main projects is to bust P-80, sysoped by Scan Man. Dan Pasquale says that Scan Man works for a long distance communications carrier. I personally think he has as much of a chance of busting P-80 Systems as a snowball staying frozen in a microwave. Lets face it, if John Maxfield and the other investigators haven't busted P-80 yet, they never will...let alone some little police sergeant in California. Dan also added that he is going to "hose" Speed Demon Elite. He claims that he is already a member of SDE and that its only a matter of time before he takes it down forever. He also mentioned that he has placed a Dialed Number Recorder (DNR) on Radical Rocker's phone lines. Furthermore, it was learned that Dan Pasquale managed to get an account on to The Underground, sysoped by Night Stalker. It is unknown as to if Dan has anything to do with Night Stalker's bust. Dan Pasquale also said, "I will bust these hackers any way I can!" To really understand what that statement means you would probably have to live in California. What Pasquale was referring to was moving violations. If you (a driver under 21) receive any type of moving violation, both your insurance company and your parents are notified. This raises your insurance rates and gets you into trouble. If you get two moving violations, kiss your license goodbye for at least 2 years. Radical Rocker having heard about Dan Pasquale's plans to destroy Speed Demon Elite, went on a user purge and has destroyed any and all accounts that were held by those that he did not know personally. Speed Demon Elite is now a private BBS and supposedly Radical Rocker has now cleared things up with Dan Pasquale. Information provided by Oryan QUEST and Radical Rocker _______________________________________________________________________________ Marx and Tabas: The Full Story July 1,1986 ------------------------------ It all started with Cory Andrew Lindsly aka Mark Tabas, age 19. He worked for the Colorado Plastic Card Company and had access to the plastic cards that credit cards were made with. He had taken 1350 and stashed them away for later usage. His plan would have went perfectly if not for Steve Dahl. He was busted in Miami by the US Secret Service for whatever reasons. They gave him a chance to play ball. Dahl had heard about Mark Tabas and Karl Marx's scheme and after informing the Secret Service about this he was given an embossing machine. Steve Dahl then flew to Denver and set up the meeting. Mark Tabas lived in Denver and wanted his friend James Price Salsman aka Karl Marx, age 18, to join in on the fun. So Marx flew down on a carded plane ticket that Tabas had signed for. The meeting took place in a room at the Denver Inn. The room was bugged and 19 cards (Visa, MasterCard, and some blanks) were made from a possible 140 that they had brought. They decided to celebrate by ordering champagne on the card of Cecil R. Downing. A member of the Secret Service actually delivered the champagne to the room disguised as a waiter. Tabas signed for the drinks and the twosome were nailed. To make matters worse the SS also matched Tabas's signature with the signature used to buy the carded plane ticket. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The sentencing goes like this: Maximum: 10,000 dollars (Local Law) Maximum: 250,000 (Federal Law) Maximum: 10 years in jail (both) Or any combination of the three. Both Tabas and Marx were let out on bail of five thousand dollars each. The actually charge is: The manufacturing and possession of unauthorized access devices. The U.S. Magistrate Hilbert Schauer will be overhearing the case. There is a rumor that charges on Salsman were dropped and that he is in no trouble at all since he didn't actually buy the plane ticket, he was given it, he didn't steal the cards, and he didn't emboss them. So supposedly the Secret Service let Marx go because he didn't know about the cards, he was just there at the wrong time. Information Provided By The Denver Post and Sally Ride:::Space Cadet _______________________________________________________________________________ The Saga Of Mad Hacker July 15, 1986 ---------------------- Mad Hacker of 616 NPA 616 wrote a random Compuserve hacker because he was bored and wanted something to do. It ran constantly for about a week and was he surprised when it came up with an account. However he made the mistake of not checking to see whose account it was, he used the SIG's (Special Interest Group's) and ran up a bill slightly under $300. About a month later he was living over at a friend's house and the owner of the account showed up, who just happened to be a family friend of the people that MH was staying with. He asked both of them (the teenagers that is) if they were using his account (they all had Compuserve accounts and the family knew they were computer buddies). Mad Hacker said no and truthfully meant it. Now around July 1, 1986 the account owner turned the matter over to the Kalamazoo Police Department since CIS (Compuserve) could not find anything out beyond the dialup used to access the account. The police called around to everyone in the area ("everyone" meaning all the "real" hacks and phreaks, not rodents who think they're bad because they use handles) including Thomas Covenant and Double Helix. Most of everyone instantly forgot that Mad Hacker ever existed, but somehow they got a hold of the phone number where he was staying (at the time he was staying at his girlfriend's house, he was not living there before) and contacted the owner of the account and put out a warrant for Mad Hacker's arrest. As of now, Mad Hacker faces *FELONY* charges because of the large amount of the bill. The warrant for his arrest has been suspended, letting the account owner to handle things in his own way. The owner has confiscated all of Mad Hacker's computer equipment (3 computers and hardware etc.) until the bill is completely paid back. Mad Hacker has progressed from merely delivering clever obscenities over the fone to his adversary to actual vengeance. One example in the planning stages will be in the form of camping out in said account owner backyard (in a rural area), hooking up to a junction box, and running the account owner's Long Distance phone bill out of sight. Mad Hacker is supposed to have a file on Junction Box Modeming coming soon, he is currently borrowing a computer from a friend. Information Provided by Thomas Covenant _______________________________________________________________________________ Lock Lifter *Busted* July 2, 1986 -------------------- Lock Lifter was busted for hacking an MCI Vax. he had downloaded a list of MCI Calling Cards that he later abused and in return he received a *free* DNR on his line for about 3 months. He was also given a scare from MCI Investigations (for unknown reasons) previous to his visit from law enforcement officers and as such his BBS, The Black Chamber, was deleted and the userfiles were destroyed, so there really isn't much to worry about from the user's standpoint. Lock Lifter had been making plans to take his board down anyway, so being without The Black Chamber is just an adjustment we would have had to make eventually regardless of Lock Lifters bust. Information Provided By Arthur Dent/Cyclone II/Kerrang Khan/The Seker - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Some notes from Cheap Shades: "I was told by Arthur Dent that Lock Lifter did not have his computer anymore, but someone using LL's password called my AE, Metal Shop AE (for which he had lost his AE access but could still log on), and left me feedback in all caps (not like LL would do) that said something like PLEASE GIVE ME ACCESS TO THE GO AE FUNCTION." Arthur Dent has now confirmed that Lock Lifter did not make the call in question and that there is definitely a fed or someone with Lock Lifter's BBS passwords. Sysops be warned. _______________________________________________________________________________ Daniel Zigmond: The Plot Thickens July 13, 1986 ---------------------------------- Daniel Zigmond appeared, for a short time, on Pirate-80. Scan Man let him on to make a statement and then shut him off the board. It is now left to the users to decide whether or not he should be allowed back on. Information by Sally Ride:::Space Cadet Some sources say that we are seeing "Whacko Cracko" syndrome, where the story gets more and more bizarre as versions get modified. Like TWCB, Zigmond supposedly says one thing to one person and something different to the next, depending on what he thinks they may want to hear. The following information was found under in an anonymous post on an unspecific bulletin board. It would appear that someone performed a credit check on Daniel Zigmond (with TRW) and came up with some very interesting results. As many of you should know, TRW keeps records of all major transactions you make, credit cards you have, house or car payments, bank accounts you own, your job, and many other things. Daniel Zigmond's TRW account is a little different, it has been flagged and the information is not there. What it does show is that Daniel Zigmond holds the position of Staff Programmer at Carnegie Mellon University, a technical school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It also shows that he was born in 1959 and although it would appear that he is 27, Daniel claims to be 26. TRW lists his only bank account as being at the Pittsburgh National Bank. What this would mean is that Zigmond has never owned a car, never rented a car, never owned or rented a house, never had a credit card, never made any major transactions, and has only one bank account. During teleconferences on July 15th and 16th, several members of the PhoneLine Phantoms and myself questioned Zigmond about his TRW account and several other things. Zigmond claims to know nothing about why his account is like this and up till we brought up the fact that he worked at CMU, he had been telling people that he was a reporter only. As far as his reasons for needing codes, passwords, etc... He says its so his boss (whomever it will be) will believe the story. Why shouldn't he believe it? Haven't there been enough articles on hackers and phreakers in the past? Its been in the news very often and I'm sure that everyone remembers the Richard Sandza articles, "Night of The Hackers" and "Revenge of The Hackers" from Newsweek Magazine. Most recently Daniel Zigmond has been speaking with several members of the Neon Knights and he has obtained an account on the BBS World's Grave Elite, which is sysoped by Sir Gamelord, the Vice-President of the P.H.I.R.M. All hackers and phreaks are welcome to call him to be interviewed, although I advise against it. Please do not call up to rag on him because it is pointless. One example happened during the 2nd conference when someone called on Danny's other line. They said "did we wake you up?" Danny said "no" and then they hung up. Information Provided By Daniel Zigmond _______________________________________________________________________________ TeleComputist; Subscribe Now! July 25, 1986 ----------------------------- From: Forest Ranger and TeleComputist staff, To: You! TeleComputist has had a very positive response up to this time and we have received many requests for the free sample issue and now it is time to subscribe. For the sample free issue please self addressed stamped envelope with 39 cents postage to: TeleComputist Newsletter P.O. Box 2003 Florissant, Mo. 63032 Also, please send subscriptions to the same address. The subscription fee for the newsletter will be twelve dollars a year, fifty cents for back issues. This is a monthly circulation and we encourage letters. Information Provided by Telecomputist Staff Telecomputist Newsletter/BBS (314)921-7938 [KL's notes: Both Taran King and I have seen the first issue and it is damn good. This is NOT a scam, we know the TeleComputist Staff personally and they will NOT rip you off. The newsletter itself is of fine quality both in its print and content. The sample issue was merely a shadow of the upcoming issues and it will continue to get better as time goes on. It is definitely worth the twelve dollars for the year subscription.] _______________________________________________________________________________ ===============================================================================