Post on 24-Oct-2014
Top 10 Most Famous Hackers of All Time
Pajević Tamara 165/07
Black Hat Hackers vs. White Hat Hackers
• “black hats” exploit computer systems. They are the ones you've seen on the news being hauled away for cybercrimes. Some of them do it for fun and curiosity, while others are looking for personal gain.
• “white hats” often work as certified "Ethical Hackers" hired by companies to test the integrity of their systems. Others, operate without company permission by bending but not breaking laws and in the process have created some really cool stuff.
Black Hat Hackers
• First juvenile to be sent to prison for hacking, served six months in prison
• Crimes: – Installed a backdoor into a Defense Threat
Reduction Agency server
– Cracked into NASA computers, stealing software worth approximately $1.7 million
Jonathan James
Black Hat Hackers
• Sentence: six months of home confinement and two years of probation, 65.000$ in restitution
• Crimes:– Penetration testing, in which he found flaws in
security, exploited them and then informed companies of their shortcomings (Yahoo!, Bank of America)
– Brake into The New York Times' intranet
Adrian Lamo
Black Hat Hackers
• Crimes:
– Breaking into the Digital Equipment Corporation's computer network and stealing software
– Half year "coast-to-coast hacking spree"
• Sentence: five years in prison, 8 months of it in solitary confinement
Kevin Mitnick
Black Hat Hackers
• Sentence: five years in prison
• Crimes:
– KIIS-FM hack was accomplished by taking over all of the station's phone lines
– Hack of federal investigation database and federal computers for wiretap information
Kevin Poulsen
Black Hat Hackers
• Sentence: years' probation, 400 hours of community service and a fine of $10,500
• Crime:– Creator of the Morris Worm - the first computer
worm to be unleashed on the Internet
Robert Tappan Morris
White Hat Hackers
• Achievements:
– Blue boxes - devices that bypass telephone-switching mechanisms to make free long-distance calls.
– The computer as a fully assembled PC board
Awards: the National Medal of Technology, the National Inventors Hall of Fame
Stephen Wozniak
White Hat Hackers
• The World Wide Web
• Awards: the Millennium Technology Prize.
Tim Berners-Lee
White Hat Hackers
• The Linux operating system
Torvalds: "I just want to have fun making the best damn operating system I can."
Linus Torvalds
White Hat Hackers
• The GNU Project, which was founded to develop a free operating system
Stallman: "Non-free software keeps users divided and helpless, forbidden to share it and unable to change it. A free operating system is essential for people to be able to use computers in freedom."
Richard Stallman
White Hat Hackers
• Was hacked by Kevin Mitnick and made it his cause to help the FBI capture him.
Tsutomu Shimomura
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