diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index c904b09..f0f7754 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# Makefile for Hydra - (c) 2001-2016 by van Hauser / THC <vh@thc.org>
+# Makefile for Hydra - (c) 2001-2017 by van Hauser / THC <vh@thc.org>
 #
 OPTS=-I. -O3
 # -Wall -g -pedantic
diff --git a/README b/README
index 27a5bd1..8b3afe6 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
 				  H Y D R A
 
-                      (c) 2001-2016 by van Hauser / THC
+                      (c) 2001-2017 by van Hauser / THC
                        <vh@thc.org> http://www.thc.org
        many modules were written by David (dot) Maciejak @ gmail (dot) com
                  BFG code by Jan Dlabal <dlabaljan@gmail.com>
diff --git a/hydra.c b/hydra.c
index c7f0550..31a27ce 100644
--- a/hydra.c
+++ b/hydra.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * hydra (c) 2001-2016 by van Hauser / THC <vh@thc.org>
+ * hydra (c) 2001-2017 by van Hauser / THC <vh@thc.org>
  * http://www.thc.org
  *
  * Parallized network login hacker.
@@ -2353,7 +2353,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
   struct sockaddr_in6 *ipv6 = NULL;
   struct sockaddr_in *ipv4 = NULL;
 
-  printf("%s %s (c) 2016 by %s - Please do not use in military or secret service organizations, or for illegal purposes.\n\n", PROGRAM, VERSION, AUTHOR);
+  printf("%s %s (c) 2017 by %s - Please do not use in military or secret service organizations, or for illegal purposes.\n\n", PROGRAM, VERSION, AUTHOR);
 #ifndef LIBPOSTGRES
   SERVICES = hydra_string_replace(SERVICES, "postgres ", "");
   strcat(unsupported, "postgres ");