Press Release Source: Nomad Mobile Research Centre NMRC Introduces New "Am I Owned?" Service Sunday June 8, 3:42 am CT UNDERGROUND BUNKER, June 8 /PR-BS/ -- Nomad Mobile Research Centre, the premiere hacking group, is announcing a new service to customers called "Am I Owned?", which lets a company or organization learn if they have been compromised, or "owned" to use the vernacular of the computer underground. "Online threats to businesses are increasing. Between hackers, corporate espionage efforts, monitoring, and of course the growing cyber-terrorism threats, we feel that this threat can only be met by a group such as NMRC," said Simple Nomad, NMRC founder and media whore. Utilizing a newly developed technology called Intercontinental Reactionary Crossreference, NMRC can proactively monitor for signs of intrusions into various corporate and government computer systems. Using a unique console which allows monitoring and logging of various channels of information coursing through the system, NMRC can monitor thousands of sources of information around the clock. This is how the new system works: - NMRC members monitor IRC consoles, refered to as "clients", and watch the detailed and sophisticated security information flowing by on key channels. - The information is typically encoded using various dialects and a series of advanced encryption techniques (e.g. the letter 'o' is represented by the number '0'), however NMRC hackers have been trained to automatically, intuitively, and in real time completely interpret the encoding. - Utilizing a technique known as "idling", multiple IRC channels can be monitored simultaneously. - Upon spotting references to subscribers' systems being compromised, the subscriber is immediately notified. NMRC reports that they can access these collection nodes from anywhere, including client sites. "An entire global network consisting of hundreds of servers and thousands of 'points of information' are at the fingertips of NMRC for monitoring," reported Daaihliuh, NMRC's main IRC client coder. After the initial Phase One of "Am I Owned?" is rolled out, additional monitoring modules are expected to be added including an email-based monitoring system with two parts called "Basic Underground Group Tracking Response And Query" and "Vector Underground Limitless Network With Algorithmic Time Check Heuristics", and a web-based monitoring system called "General Obfuscation Oscillating Grep Like Engine". "With NMRC members monitoring IRC, we can learn a lot. But once you bring BUGTRAQ, VULNWATCH, and GOOGLE into the picture, there is no limit to the value we can bring to a company," said Weasel, a Senior Executive on the Owned project. "We feel that in this climate of anti-Americanism by countries abroad, it is simply un-democratic and completely un-American for an American company to not be using this service. If you are not using this service, you might as well lie down and let terrorists walk all over you. The choice is simple -- you are with America, or against it," stated jrandom, technical lead for the GOOGLE portion of the Owned project. "As one of the Canadians represented in NMRC, let me state that it is our fondest wish to be involved in protecting American culture and way of life, simply because of the riches it has brought our country. Your television alone makes it worth it, because any culture that can produce such quality shows as 'Cop Rock' and 'Manimal' should be preserved at all costs. Our only greater wish is that you make Canada an official state in the United States (except for Quebec) and we promise to publicly execute Celine Dion," spoke an empassioned hellNbak, Canadian IRC project lead. The "Am I Owned?" monitoring services are expected to start at $72,000 per month and higher, depending upon the size of the company. For more information on the "Am I Owned?" program, contact NMRC at http://www.nmrc.org/. In other NMRC news, the group reports it will be featured at both Black Hat Briefings USA 2003 and DefCon XI in Las Vegas at the end of July. At DefCon NMRC will be giving a panel discussion and presentation entitled "Free Your Mind: The NMRC Info/Warez Panel Presentation", where they will be discussing new tools, techniques and other items of interest to the hacking community. Also at DefCon XI, Inertia will be giving a presentation called "Introducing nmrcOS", going into detail about the new NMRC Linux distribution. Simple Nomad and Weasel will also be participating in the "Hacker Court" presentation at Black Hat, and finally Simple Nomad will be giving a Black Hat talk entitled "Covering Your Tracks" which introduces some new tools. For more information on these rare Las Vegas presentations, check out http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-11/defcon-11-speakers.html and http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-03/bh-usa-03-schedule.html. Details about DefCon XI and Black Hat Briefings USA 2003 in general can be found at http://www.defcon.org/ and http://www.blackhat.com/ respectively. About Nomad Mobile Research Centre Nomad Mobile Research Centre (NMRC) is a world leader in computer security research. Having pioneered hundreds of hacker techniques and released thousands of exploits, they regard themselves to be so egotisical that they can't even comprehend their own egos, reaching an aloof "zen-like" state of security bliss. They are widely regarded as the first hacking group to spell the word "Center" as "Centre", implying a worldly sophistication that makes the girls (and the guys) swoon at their jammed-packed public appearances. ### _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. 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