8-26-96. EeTi: "Unix gives hackers a crack at systems." Las Vegas: Many of the hacking elite were on the Internet long before the World Wide Web was a gleam in the eye of inventor Tim Berners Lee. And these folks know the best-kept secret of gaining access to-and control of-someone else's electronic property: Unix. An expert underground Web cracker who goes by the handle +ORC noted with apparent glee: "With each company that connects to the Net, new frontiers are created for crackers to explore." Indeed, even as many old-line hackers of the sort who gathered here recently for the DefCon convention go legit, some starting cyber-security companies of their own, Internet-security experts look with trepidation to the next, more threatening wave of cybercrime. Perhaps the legendary hacker group l0pht is the best example of the thin line between cybercriminal and corporate comer. Several members spoke at DefCon, notably Death Vegetable, administrator of the Cult of the Dead Cow; and Mudge, the brilliant encryption cracker who devised the S/Key Cracker's Toolkit and posted it on the Net, much to the chagrin of Bellcore, S/Key's owners. ----- http://jya.com/defcon.txt (9 kb) DEF_con