Cult of the Dead Cow.
Founded in 1984 in Texas, the cDc was a group of hackers who came together to create one of the most-accomplished groups of the computer underground.
The group started out by publishing the very first "
e-zine", and has continued to be a leading developer in
Internet privacy and security tools to this day. Extremely famous for remote administration tools
Back Orifice and BO2K.
cDc is also a hot spot for news from around the world and has articles related to computer programming/hardware/administration/hacking, in addition to articles about anything and everything else.
In short, these guys were the original 1337 h4x0rz.