| ==Phrack Inc.== | |
| Volume Two, Issue 21, File 11 of 11 | |
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| Man Charged with "Infecting" Computers May 24, 1988 | |
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| Fort Worth, Texas (AP) -- A 39-year-old computer programmer is being prosecuted | |
| on felony charges of infecting his ex-employer's computers with an electronic | |
| "virus," and face up to 10 years in prison if convicted. | |
| Donald Gene Burleson faces a charge of "harmful access to a computer," and is | |
| free on a $3,000 bond pending his July 11 trial. | |
| Police described the electronic interference as a "massive deletion" of more | |
| than 168,000 records of sales commissions for employees. | |
| Burleson is thought to be the first person charged under the state law | |
| prohibiting computer sabotage, which took effect Sept. 1, 1985, about three | |
| weeks before the alleged incident, said Davis McCown, chief of the Tarrant | |
| County district attorney's economic crimes division. | |
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| Jury Selection In First Virus Trial Begins September 6, 1988 | |
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| Taken from the Washington Post (September 7, 1988),Page C-1 | |
| Fort Worth, Texas (AP) -- Jury selection began today in the criminal trial of a | |
| 40-year-old programmer accused of using a computer "virus" to sabotage | |
| thousands of records at his former work place. The trial is expected to last | |
| about two weeks. | |
| Donald G. Burleson faces up to 10 years in jail and a $5,000 fine if convicted | |
| in the trial, a first for the computer industry. Burleson was indicted on | |
| charges of burglary and harmful access to a computer in connection with | |
| computer damage at a securities firm, said Nell Garrison, clerk of the state | |
| criminal district court in Fort Worth. Through his lawyer, Jack Beech, | |
| Burleson denies the charges but has declined further comment. | |
| The firm has been awarded $12,000 in a civil lawsuit against Burleson. | |
| Pretrial motions were scheduled to be heard today, followed by jury selection, | |
| Garrison said. | |
| Burleson is accused of planting a piece of computer software known as a virus | |
| in the computer system at USPA&IRA Co. two days after he was fired. A virus is | |
| a computer program, often hidden in apparently normal computer software, that | |
| instructs the computer to change or destroy information at a given time or | |
| after a certain sequence of commands. USPA officials claim Burleson went into | |
| the company's offices one night and planted a virus in its computer records | |
| that would wipe out sales commissions records every month. The virus was | |
| discovered two days later, after it had eliminated 168,000 records. | |
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| White Lightning Speaks Up July 28, 1988 | |
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| White Lightning was apparently previously accused of being an informant for | |
| Sprint Security with regard to information concerning The Disk Jockey and | |
| Compaq. | |
| He left the following message on the Phrack Voice Message System; | |
| "Yeah, this is White Lightning. I'd like to make an official statement for | |
| Phrack Magazine. As far as what happened to The Disk Jockey, Shit, I have no | |
| idea, ok? I get on a bridge, I've been out of it for two weeks, I get on | |
| Friday night, and fuck, this guy Laser outta 206 is saying I got him busted, | |
| I don't know anything about it, ok? As far as Compaq goes, outta 219, Kent, | |
| I'd just appreciate it, your information is messed.. <BEEP!> [The Phrack VMS | |
| has a beep that lets you know that you only have 10 seconds left.] What the | |
| hell is that!? Hello?!? Who is that?!" | |
| Message For White Lightning from Phrack Inc.; | |
| If you would care to explain your side of the story a little more clearly, | |
| we would be happy to listen to what you have to say. We are sure that | |
| everyone would be interested. Thank you. | |
| Information Provided By White Lightning | |
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| AT&T Links Up With GTE August 1, 1988 | |
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| AT&T is stepping up its efforts to boost revenues from telecommunications gear | |
| by buying GTE's phone switch business. AT&T will become the leading equipment | |
| supplier to GTE's phone companies, which are the main source of the | |
| switch operations $500 million in revenues. | |
| AT&T will take a 49% stake in a new company that will comprise GTE's switch | |
| manufacturing operations in Illinois and a research and development facility in | |
| Phoenix, Arizona. GTE, whose business employs 5,000, is counting on AT&T's | |
| technical expertise to support its base of phone switching systems. It also | |
| wants out of the phone equipment business. AT&T's main task; making the | |
| switches capable of handling the massive voice and computer data transmission | |
| requirements anticipated by GTE's phone companies over the next 15 years. | |
| Neither partner disclosed financial terms of the joint venture. But AT&T will | |
| own 80% of it by 1993 and 100% by 2003. Its management structure is not yet | |
| decided. GTE has made similar moves in recent years that have ended in giving | |
| full management control and ownership to its partners. Such deals include one | |
| with West Germany's Siemens in communication transmission products and a second | |
| with Japan's Fujitsu in office phone systems. | |
| Information Provided by Business Week Magazine | |
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| Is There A Doctor In The House? August 1, 1988 | |
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| It all started when I met him on a bridge in Texas. No one really understands | |
| why he did it or why he chose that particular handle. He seems to have some | |
| decent knowledge and would not have had much trouble reaching a high level of | |
| notoriety. Unless there is more here than meets the eye. | |
| Doc Holiday/Scott of 713 is an IMPOSTER! | |
| He was doing a pretty good job pretending to be the original Doc Holiday. He | |
| had researched all about him, including details concerning his recent bust for | |
| COSMOS abuse, and created a framing story to explain how and why he now was | |
| Scott instead of Robbie and how his family had moved from Tennessee to Texas. | |
| The majority of the phreak/hack community bought the story and he would have | |
| gone on unseen except for the return of some folks who had disappeared last | |
| fall; Knight Lightning and Taran King. Upon hearing about this Doc Holiday in | |
| 713, they already suspected that he was bogus, and once they had spoken to him | |
| they knew it was not the original Doc Holiday. To bring a hilarious end to | |
| this charade they waited until they could contact the original Doc Holiday to | |
| let him in on the exposure. | |
| As destiny would have it, the real Doc Holiday was on vacation and happened to | |
| end up spending a weekend in St. Louis, the weekend right after SummerCon '88. | |
| So the three of them got together started Scott Holiday talking to further | |
| incriminate himself and then let the REAL Doc Holiday introduce himself and | |
| have the last laugh. | |
| Scott Holiday was in shock at first and he tried to explain that he had a good | |
| reason for doing it, but his mom got on the phone and he had to go. | |
| After this incident, I talked to him voice, and he explained to me that he | |
| enjoyed doing this, and it was "the biggest scam" he had ever pulled off, | |
| except that you could argue that he did not really pull it off. Seeing as how | |
| Scott is quite adept at the art of social engineering, he really had little to | |
| no trouble convincing (for lack of a better word) people who did not know the | |
| original Doc Holiday. However when he came up against the best, he failed the | |
| test miserably. | |
| The point of publicizing this incident is to document that people can be easily | |
| fooled and deceit by phone phreaks is not limited to the phone companies. Keep | |
| in mind that people are not necessarily whom they claim and in that lies the | |
| greatest truth of all. | |
| Information Provided By Epsilon | |
| Special thanks to Knight Lightning and Taran King for the exposure. | |
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| Canada Cancels The Underlord August 3, 1988 | |
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| "I still Hack!" | |
| The Underlord awoke on February 11, 1988 at 7:30 AM to the sound of his | |
| doorbell. Moments later, his mother entered his room to inform him that there | |
| were three men waiting to see him. She had a rather puzzled look on her face. | |
| He threw on some clothes and ran downstairs to meet his fate head on. The "fat | |
| man" showed him a search warrant and informed him that he was under arrest for | |
| 7 offenses. They confiscated everything. | |
| The Underlord was escorted to their car (his mother followed behind) and driven | |
| off to the police station. They told him something about cameras being all | |
| over the station, but it did not matter to him because, "I wasn't going to kill | |
| the guy or anything anyway." From there he was taken to a little room, in | |
| which he overheard the police playing with my computer, phone, and tapes that | |
| they confiscated. | |
| He had to sit there alone for four hours until his dad drove his home and later | |
| showed his the papers. | |
| "They said I was being charged for four counts of 'theft of telecommunications' | |
| (a real law in Canada), and three counts of mischief." | |
| He was told that the mischief charges were because he called Emergency 911 | |
| (although he said he did it through a PBX) and told them obscenities with a | |
| friend on three-way. | |
| Practically six months later, on June 16, 1988, The Underlord finally received | |
| everything back and went to court. He had to pay $750.00 total and serve eight | |
| months probation. However, he only had the three counts of mischief on his | |
| record. | |
| He explained that in Canada, if the government wants to make you pay a fine, | |
| they must prove that you have enough money to pay it first. However, UL did | |
| not and so the authorities said they would drop the charges if he would pay the | |
| $750.00. | |
| Information Provided By The Underlord 416 | |
| Through The Phoenix Project | |
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| Teen Hackers Ring Up Huge Phone Bill October 7, 1988 | |
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| By Robert Macy (Associated Press) | |
| Las Vegas, Nevada - Ten teen-age hackers may have run up to $650,000 in | |
| telephone calls by tricking phone company computers, and their parents could be | |
| liable for the tab, authorities said. | |
| Tom Spurlock, resident agent-in-charge of the Las Vegas Secret Service office, | |
| said the teen-agers engaged in Blue Boxing, a technique that enabled them to | |
| talk to fellow hackers throughout Europe. | |
| The teen-agers were not taken into custody or charged, but their computers were | |
| seized. Spurlock said it will be up to AT&T to decide whether to seek | |
| reimbursement once a final tally is obtained. | |
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| Virus Hits Unix at Bell Labs May 13, 1988 | |
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| Friday the 13th, a devastating virus hit Bell Labs at Murray Hill. Initial | |
| reports from survivors indicate that the destruction caused was very | |
| widespread, although limited to Sun workstations. Rumor has it that the virus | |
| was planted by a disgruntled Sun employee in the Sun Unix kernel. The actual | |
| amount of work lost is unknown, as is the Murray Hill policies on frequency of | |
| disk backups. | |
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| Translation Of 2600 Magazine Fall 1988 | |
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| The following appeared on page 46 of 2600 Magazine, Volume 5, Number 3. It was | |
| in German and I took the liberty of having a friend who is a member of the | |
| Chaos Computer Club in Germany translate it for PWN. | |
| "Hacker" Free Again | |
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| One of the heads of the Hamburg CCC, S. Wernery, was released from jail in | |
| Paris. The 26-year-old arrived at Hamburg airport yesterday (whenever that | |
| was, there was no date on the article). He stated the accusations against him | |
| were still being investigated. After having been questioned by a judge he was | |
| released from bail, but has to return to Paris at request, though. | |
| :Knight Lightning | |
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| Quicknotes | |
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| 1. BIG! The New Telecom Library Catalog! 1-800-Library. Free, 125 Books, etc. | |
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| 2. The Teleconnect Dictionary; A Glossary of Telecom Acronyms, Terms, and | |
| Jargon. Not just definitions...mini essays. $9.95 -- 1-800-LIBRARY. | |
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| 3. Microlog Demo Numbers - Microlog, Irvine, California, makes voice response | |
| equipment. Call for demos: | |
| o Microlog (800)562-2822 | |
| o Immigration and Naturalization (800)777-7770 | |
| o Canadian Embassy (202)785-1431 | |
| o Office of Personal Management (202)653-8468 | |
| o Australian Consulate (202)797-3161 | |
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| 4. Most accurate time in the world; (303)499-7111. It's tied to the atomic | |
| clock at the National Bureau of Standards in Boulder, Colorado. | |
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| 5. Sue the United States Postal Service? Good Luck. | |
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| If the US Postal Service loses a package sent by Express Mail, you can't sue | |
| for damages the way you can other delivery services. | |
| Reason: The United States government is immune from lawsuits except when | |
| they consent to being sued. The Postal Service has retained this immunity. | |
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| 6. Announcing a new electronic mailbox named Sub-Etha. It is owned and | |
| operated by the Computer Club of Oldenburg, West Germany. | |
| Phone number: (0441/777397) 300 Baud N/8/1 | |
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