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TESO was a famous hacker group, which originated in Austria and quickly became international. They were active from 1998 to 2004, and during their peak around 2000, they were responsible for a significant share of the exploits on the BUGTRAQ Mailinglist. Image File history File links Team Teso Logo File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Name The Name originally was an acronym of the nicknames of the original founders, but as many of the most skilled members joined later, this interpretation quickly became meaningless. Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations formed from the initial letter or letters of words, such as NATO and XHTML, and are pronounced in a way that is distinct from the full pronunciation of what the letters stand for. ...
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History In 1998, Teso was founded, and quickly grew to 6 people, which first met in 1999 at the CCC Camp near Berlin. By 2000 the group was at their peak, and started speaking on various conferences, wrote articles for Phrack and releasing security tools and exploits at a very high pace. During 2000 and 2001 the group was responsable for most of the successful break-ins to unclassified US Military computers. As a result of their hacing activity against world goverments, the group attrated significant scrutinity. As a direct result, In 2003 the group went back underground, and in 2004 the Website was shutdown. To this day, many hotes are still active on the teso domain, 7350.org. The irc server used by the group, hosted at netric.org remains active to this day. The TESO group largely morphed into phenolit. CCC stands for: California Conservation Corps Camden County College Campus Crusade for Christ Canadian computing competition Cardiff County Council Carlito Caribbean Cool Carmarthenshire County Council Cartesian closed category Catechism of the Catholic Church - an exposition of Roman Catholic Church teachings Chaos Computer Club Civilian Conservation Corps - a New Deal program...
Phrack is an underground ezine made by and for hackers that has been around since November 17, 1985. ...
Members While Teso originally and during their peak was a small and tightly-knit group, it is estimated that Teso had more than 15 members before going back underground. Many members curently work for major security companies, such as Symantec and Netsec, using their affiliation with Teso to cash in on the information security boom. Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC), founded in 1982, is an information security company headquartered in Cupertino, California that now specializes in computer security and antivirus software. ...
Achievements - In 2000, developed hellkit, the first public shellcode generator, based off of code taken from ADM.
- In 2000 wrote TesoGCC, the first format string vulnerability scanner, and the first comprehensive guide on format string exploitation.
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Quotes ADM and TESO made almost inapproprietly large spashes in the community when they were active. Almost all their exploits were beyond the standard, and at times it seemed they were the ones finding all the new bug-classes. But at their peak, they couldn't have been very large groups. Certainly smaller than the reverse engineering and security group at a good sized IDS/IPS company these days. -- Dave Aitel, CEO and Founder of Immunity, Inc
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