w00w00 is currently one of the largest non-profit security

Computer security

Computer security is a branch of computer technology known as information security as applied to computers and networks. The objective of computer security includes protection of information and property from theft, corruption, or natural disaster, while allowing the information and property to...

 teams in the world with more than 30 active participants (there are no "members"). w00w00 was created in 1998. Participants come from 5 continents, and 14 countries (Australia, Argentina, Canada, Japan, France,Finland, Russia, England, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Portugal, USA), as well as several U.S. states.

The Participants (past and present)

• Ejovi Nuwere Aka Joewee
• Brian Martin
  Brian Martin
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   Aka Jericho
• Nicolas Brawn Aka MiNDWaRP
• Dug Song
• Rain Forest Puppy Aka RFP
• AM aka centoq
• Matt Conover Aka Shok
• Nicolas Dubee Aka plaguez
• K2
• Niels Provos
  Niels Provos
  Niels Provos is a researcher in the areas of secure systems, malware and cryptography. He is currently a Principal Software Engineer at Google. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Michigan....
  
  
• The FuSiioN
• Jobe
• arr
• Tim Newsham
  Tim Newsham
  Tim Newsham is a computer security professional. He has been influencing and contributing to the security community for more than a decade. He has performed ground-breaking research while working at security companies including @stake, Guardent, ISS, and Network Associates . Mr...
  
   Aka Newsh
• leku
• Tim Yardley aka lst
• Mark Dowd aka duke

Advisories

1999

• UnixWare 7's dtappgather
• Ipswitch's IMail POP3 server (Windows)
• UnixWare 7's /var/sadm permissions
• VNC 3.3.2 R6 (Windows/Unix)
• UnixWare 7's su
• UnixWare 7's Xsco
• UnixWare 7's xlock
• Solaris 2.7's snoop
• Infoseek's Ultraseek (eEye/USSR)
• IMail's password encryption (Windows)
• Norton Antivirus' POProxy

See also

• A 2003 interview with w00w00
• TESO
  TESO
  TESO was a famous hacker group, which originated in Austria and quickly became international. It was active from 1998 to 2004, and during its peak around 2000, it was responsible for a significant share of the exploits on the bugtraq mailing list.- History :...
  
   - a related security group active during the same time.
• The Hacker's Choice
  The Hacker's Choice
  The Hacker's Choice, also known as THC, is a non-commercialgroup of international security researchers andhackers.- About :THC was founded in 1995 in Germany and has published over 70 software...
  
  - a similar hacking group