HISTORY

    - In July 1999, HackersLab officially opened its non-commercial web site and Free Hacking Zone site. The Free Hacking Zone is designed to let its members satisfy their hacking urges and eventually lead them away from illegally hacking into network systems.

    - In October 1999, HackersLab established several hacker communities in Seoul and other major cities in Korea.

    - In November 1999, HackersLab hosted the 1st "King of Kings Hacking Competition" in Korea.

    - In August 2000, HackersLab opened its Free Hacking Zone site and webpage in English.

The Crew

    Gadzet



    "I have always been disappointed in the way youngsters desire to hack was leading to cyber crimes. I was confident that we could educate and lead hackers, especially the younger generation, by providing ethical information and jurisdiction on hacking, leading them away from the 'underground', and have them work at an open site, beneficial to society. That's why I resigned from the National Police Agency and founded HackersLab."... Full Story
    Kalki



    Back at his highschool, Kalki was the class captain. (A class captain in Korea represents the students to the school administration, and is responsible for helping the teacher with various tasks.) Well, Kalki never really liked calculating grades and recording them, so he wrote a program to make his job a little easier. Full Story
    Labman
    Labman majored in physics in university. While there, his hobbies included comic books and programming. He taught himself the ancient programming languages, assembler, Fortran, and COBOL to name a few. However, his university days drew to an end and Labman soon found himself working for a clothing manufacturer working as a CAD programmer, coding for industrial knitting machines... Full story
    Cclass
    Well, as it was told to me anyways... it was the morning of April 6, 1991, and Lee, the sysadmin of the POSTECH computer science department came in and tried to start up the system. It didn't work. He checked out the system carefully, only to find out that the system had been hacked... how hard it had been hacked he was just about to discover. Whoever had hacked the system there had changed the EEPROM passwords, pretty elite stuff. The only way to repair the damage would be to replace it. Next, the system had been completely wiped... no data left. Lee found 7 more workstations had new passwords, and no data. He called in the police... Full Story
    Black
    Black runs the drill server here. Read about the Bastard Sysadmin From Hell (BOFH). That could just have well been about Black. Piss Black off and god only knows what he'll do... Occasionally users get killed in the system... Black won't confirm whether or not he's responsible for it... Spam and hate mail really set him off...... Last year Black got an email offer from Micro$oft asking him to join their development team. Being the hard core Linuxer that he is, and prominent in the Korean Linux community, he sniffed the mail and sent it to /dev/null... Full Story
    Doll
    Well known in the Korean hacking community, Doll maintains relationships with a large number of hackers in Korea. Quite often you'll find Doll entertaining other hackers and fans from around the country at the office, but only in the late afternoon, when he's already gotten up. After work is out of the way, Doll can be found either playing more games, or out for a few brews with his colleagues... Full Story
    Loveyou
    Loveyou gained a fair amount of fame / infamy in the late 90s over some incident. Most people in the Korean hacking community know him from that. He has an extensive bug collection... not insects... but he is very slow in releasing them, if at all. He's sent a lot of bug reports to CERT and SecurityFocus. Loveyou was instrumental in developing the first 15 level problems for the FHZ. Don't email him about it though. He's pretty tight-lipped... Full Story
    Dubhe
    When Dubhe first heard about HackersLab, he was still using a Pentium MMX 200. Twenty-five hours later he finished ripping through all the level problems. Gadzet ordered the team to get in contact with him. A short while later, Dubhe dropped by the office to have a look around. While chatting with some of the team members, the conversation wandered until it got to one specific computer... Full Story
    Codejack
    Codejack used to work for an evil network consulting company that made its employees work during holidays. It was during one thanksgiving when Codejack was alone at work away from his family that he got bored and decided to kill some time by hacking the HackersLab system... Full Story
    AliceInCyberLand

    NOT much is known about this mysterious fellow. It's rumored that he only shows his face in the dead of night when no one is around, but at 3 or 4 in the morning, most of the guys in the lab are either testing the security at some company or playing video games, and no one ever sees him slip into his office... Full Story



    Contact

      E-mail us:
      fhz[at]hackerslab.org
      Call us:
      82-2-2056-2800
      Fax us:
      82-2-540-7880
      Write to us:
      HackersLab
      M-Building, 5th Floor
      221-5 Nonhyun-Dong,
      Kangnam-Gu,
      Seoul, Korea, 135-010