“The members of L0pht can knock you off line, steal your
credit-card numbers and cut off the power for your whole
neighborhood. But they’d like you to think they’re the good
guys…“
“We sit down at a computer monitor while Sili explains his
latest discovery. By mimicking messages that typically flow between
computers on a network, he can reach out to almost anyone running
Windows 95, 98 or 2000 in a large corporate environment, or anyone
using a cable modem, and forcibly disconnect them from the
Web…”
“L0pht’s “research” consists of trying to break into these
internal systems. Upon discovering a security flaw in
commercial-network software, the L0phties publish an advisory on
their Web site. The advisory is a double-edged sword: a detailed
description of the flaw – enough information for other hackers to
duplicate the “exploit” – and a solution that tells network
administrators how to close the loophole.”