`Hack Microsoft' challenge is NYT Computer News Daily's top story
See http://nytsyn.com/live/Lead/275_100295_074418_19095.html MICROSOFT BECOMES NEW TARGET OF HACKING CHALLENGE (10/2) By HEATHER GREEN c.1995 Bloomberg Business News BERKELEY, Calif. -- Microsoft Corp. has been chosen as a new target for computer hackers. Community Connexion, an Internet service provider that last week promised a free T-shirt to anyone who found a flaw in Netscape Communications Corp.'s software, extended the challenge Friday to include holes in Microsoft products. . . . The article quotes Sameer and includes the URL http://www.c2.org/hackmsoft/ -- Rick Busdiecker Please do not send electronic junk mail! net: rfb@lehman.com or rfb@cmu.edu PGP Public Key: 0xDBD9994D www: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/rfb/http/home.html send mail, subject "send index" for mailbot info, "send pgp key" gets my key A `hacker' is one who writes code. Breaking into systems is `cracking'.
BTW, I was just reading in LAN TIMES, I think, that Microsoft NT 3.5 is about to be giving C2 status from the NCSC. They stated that it took over a year to pass it. They also mention that Novell Netware is going the same tests and it should have its C2 status in about 6 months to a year. Though you would like to know. Aleph One / aleph1@dfw.net http://underground.org/ KeyID 1024/948FD6B5 Fingerprint EE C9 E8 AA CB AF 09 61 8C 39 EA 47 A8 6A B8 01
C2 status isn't worth anything. NT might be one of the only OSes that ship C2-compliant, but just because it is C2 doesn't mean it is secure.
BTW, I was just reading in LAN TIMES, I think, that Microsoft NT 3.5 is about to be giving C2 status from the NCSC. They stated that it took over a year to pass it. They also mention that Novell Netware is going the same tests and it should have its C2 status in about 6 months to a year. Though you would like to know.
Aleph One / aleph1@dfw.net http://underground.org/ KeyID 1024/948FD6B5 Fingerprint EE C9 E8 AA CB AF 09 61 8C 39 EA 47 A8 6A B8 01
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