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By Sally Watson, 15 February 2000 11:24

NEWS The German hacker known as Mixter is courting more controversy today with the publication of three new denial-of-service programs on the Internet. Mixter is already under investigation by the FBI, which believes he may be responsible for the distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) software, Tribe Flood Network, used in attacks on high-profile Web sites last week. Now the hacker, who claims to be based in Germany, has published details of three more DDOS programs - Fapi, Shaft and Trank - at http://www.packetstorm.securify.com . On the site, Mixter has written: "The past has shown, that since security vulnerabilities were a problem on the Internet, people have been ignoring vulnerabilities containing only the information that something was vulnerable to attack, disregarding them as 'completely theoretic'." "Only when people wrote up and posted ready-to-(ab)use vulnerability exploits, the severity of the vulnerabilities become clear, and people would make an effort to counter those vulnerabilities." The new programs are likely to be invisible to DDOS detection programs posted during the last few days by the FBI and security companies. See also:
'Clinton holds hacker war talks' http://www.silicon.com/a35736
'Hacking wave ends as FBI prepare to investigate' http://www.silicon.com/a35689
'Hackers hit high-profile Web sites' http://www.silicon.com/a35655