Hacker News Network is one of the side projects of the Boston-based hacker collective known as L0pht Heavy Industries. The group disbanded after it sold out to consultancy @stake in 2000, and its members gradually watched their dream of being paid to do cutting-edge hacking and security research wither and die. Six of the eight members reunited last year at a Boston security conference, and in May 2009, members of the group released the first update to their password audit tool since 2005. Group acquired the rights to its AntiSniff network monitoring tool from Symantec.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2124203/l0pht-makes-comeback–sorta–with-hacker-news-network.html