FAMOUS HACKERS
Added on: 15th Jul 2015
ROBERT TAPPAN MORRIS
A computer scientist who in 1988 invented the first computer
worm on the internet known as the Morris Worm. Robert Tappan Morris
was the first person to have ever been convicted due to his violation
of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of the United States. He used
to be a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before
he was sentenced to three years of probation by the US court.
HD MOORE
HD Moore is the creator of the computer software Metasploit
which was developed to test computer networks resistance to
hacker penetration. HD Moore is also known for software projects
such as WarVOX, AxMan, the Metasploit Decloaking Engine and
Rogue Network Link Detection Tools. As a computer engineer, he
concerned himself with the development of platforms intended to
become security tools designed to test for vulnerabilities within
networks in order to aid the development of stronger network
protection software.
DENNIS MORAN
One of the most notorious computer criminals of the 20th century,
Dennis M. Moran was involved in a series of denial-of-service
attacks that caused hundreds of internet websites to shut down.
Also known as Coolio, Dennis Moran also masterminded the
defacement of the DARE and RSA Security websites, as well as
the unauthorized access of the computer systems of the US Air Force
and US Army. As an adult, he was charged of 7 counts of Class A
felonies related to illegal access to networks.
KRISTINA SVECHINSKAYA
Kristina Vladimirovna Svechinskaya is a young Russian hacker
who got involved in several plots to defraud some of the
largest banks in the United States and Great Britain. She used a
trojan horse to attack and open thousands of bank accounts in the
Bank of America, through which she was able to skim around
$3 billion in total.
SAM JAIN
An internet entrepreneur and the former chief executive officer
of eFront, Sam Jain was arrested in California in 2000 after being
charged with submitting fraudulent data to website ranking publisher
Media Matrix. Prior to that, he had a pending case in California
because of his involvement in the sale of counterfeit Symentec
software. He also got involved in the ICQ instant messaging scandal,
which allowed him to access private data from several internet accounts.
KARL KOCH
A German hacker who became famous in the 1980’s, Karl Koch
was involved in the sale of hacked information from US military
computers to the KGB, the main security agency of the Soviet Union.
He was a member of different hacking organizations such as the CCC
(Chaos Computer Club), and worked with individual hackers such as
DOB or Dirk-Otto-Brezinski and Urmel. He was among the few
hackers who got involved in the Cold War computer espionage incident.
EHUD TENENBAUM
An Israeli cracker, Ehud Tenenbaum caught the attention of the
media at the young age of 19, after he led a group of young hackers
that damaged the computer networks of some of the largest institutions
in the United States. Young as he was, he was arrested for
hacking the computer systems of the US Air Force, NASA, US Navy,
The Pentagon, Knesset and MIT. He also hacked into the computers
of terrorist groups based in Palestine and destroyed the websites of
Islamist organization Hamas.
LEONARD ROSE
Leonard Rose was a hacker convicted in 1991 due to wire fraud.
He was known for having stolen Unix source codes from AT&T
and distributed two Trojan Horse programs which allowed him
to gain illegal access to several computer systems. He was
also accused of being the mastermind of the Legion of Doom
hacking group, one of the most active hacker groups from
1980’s to 1990’s, and of collecting login information from
various websites.
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