TOP FIVE HACKERS of the world
(1)Gary McKinnon:
USA declared him as the biggest military computer hacker ever. He
hacked the security system of NASA and Pentagon. This made him one of
the great black hat hacker celebrities and got his name into the
hacker's community. The nerd is now facing 70
years of imprisonment
and is deprived from accessing internet. He has illegally accessed 97
computers and has caused around $700,000 damage to the economy. ...
(2)Robert Tappan Morris:
He is the creator of first internet worm ?Morris worm? he was a student
at Cornell and from that where he started writing codes to create worms
as he wanted to know how large the internet world is. But the worm lead
to the slow speed of internet and made the systems no longer usable.
There was
no. ways to know how many computers were affected but the
experts alleged that around 6000 machines. He was sent to 3 years
imprisonment, 400 hours of community service and was fined $10,500. At
present he is a professor at Massachusetts institute of technology,
computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory. He was the
first person
prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
(3)Kevin David Mitnick:
The computer security consultant, author and a hacker was accused of
many cases. He broke into the computer of top technology and
telecommunications like Nokia, Motorola, Fujitsu Siemens and sun
Microsystems. He termed his
activity as social engineering? to
legalize his acts. He hacked the Los Angeles bus transfer system to get
free rides the biggest hacking was the breaking into the DEC system to
view the VMS source code (open virtual memory system which lead to the
clean-up cost of around $160,000. He also gained
the full administration privileges to IBM minicomputers at the computer learning institute in Los Angeles for a bet.