ATTENTION, EVERYONE.
If you are a common internet user, you should be aware when
you surf internet. There are many traps set by hackers without you notice about
it.
Hacker- might be an individual or a group of people who throw
a malicious software or virus at a system to gain the access to the desired
information. If a hacker wants to hack in to your system, he or she can do it
easily. Following is the list of top 10 hackers that you should know:
Gary Mckinnon
He is a Scottish, United Kingdom hacker. He
hacked into 97 United State Military and NASA between 2001 and 2002 and claimed
to have been looking for evidence of UFOs and “free energy”, a mythical,
inexhaustible source of power, on the military computers. He stolen a photograph of a UFO, a list of
‘non-terrestrial officers’ and evidence of a ‘free energy’ cover-up. He also
shut down 2,000 computer for 24 hours and posted a notice on military website:
Your security is crap.
LulzSec
Is a Black Hat hacker group and there are
about 11 members. They hacked into Sony Picture (2011), CIA, FBI, Scotland
Yard, and several noteworthy accounts. They hacked in Fox.com and discovered a
weakness in the site, and used that to leak the profiles and names of 73,000 X
Factor US contestants. And, they also attacked Sony's PlayStation Network,
stealing 24.6 million customers' private data, and leading the company to take
the network offline for days.
Adrian Lamo
He is a former hacker. He became a news
when he hacked into Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, and The New York Times.
Matthew Bevan and Richard Pryce
Bevan is a British and arrested in 1996 for
hacking into Secure US Government network. He partner with Pryce to hack into US
military computers and used it as a means to infiltrate the foreign systems and
triggered great many issues between USA and North Korea.
James was an American hacker who was the
first juvenile to be imprisoned for a cyber-crime at the age of 16. He hacked
into Defense Threat Reduction Agency of US department. Further, he installed a
sniffer that scrutinized the messages passed on between the DTRA employees. He
died in 2008.
Kevin Poulsen
He is an American former black hat
hacker and currently is a digital security journalist. Poulsen infiltrated a
radio shows call-in contest so that he could win a Porsche.
Kevin Mitnick
Mitnick is an American computer security
consultant, author and hacker. He pleaded guilty to seven counts of fraud that
included wire fraud, computer fraud and of illegally interception a wire
communication. After five years of incarceration that included eight months of
solitary confinement, Mitnick now has started afresh.
Anonymous
Anonymous is a group of hackers
that originated in 2003. Identified in public by wearing a Guy Fawkes Masks,
Anons, as they are widely known, have publicized themselves by attacking the
government, religious and corporate websites. The Vatican, the FBI, the CIA,
PayPal, Sony, MasterCard, Visa, Chinese, Israeli, Tunisian, and Ugandan
governments have been among their targets.
Astra
A 58-year-old Greek mathematician hacked
into the computer systems of France's Dassault Group over a period of five
years, stealing weapons technology data and 3D modeling software that he then
sold to at least 250 people in Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, South Africa,
and the Middle East.
Albert Gonzalez
Gonzalez was accused of credit card theft and
the selling of more than 170 million credit card and ATM numbers. He also
oversaw a website called Shadowcrew, a forum that allowed members to buy stolen
credit card numbers.
Source:
Written
By:
Cha Sook Yong
Bachelor of Public Relations (Honours)
Tunku Abdul Rahman University College
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