Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
[1991 Apr 11] Kevin Poulsen ('Dark Dante') arrested for breaking into Pacific Bell phone systems.
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[1991 Jul] Justin Petersen ('Agent Steal' and 'Eric Heinz') arrested for breaking into TRW , stealing credit cards.
[1991 Aug 6] Tim Berners- Lee's Usenet announcement of the World Wide Web project.
[1991 Sep] Justin Petersen released from prison to help FBI track hacker Kevin Mitnick .
[1991 Sep 17] Linus Torvalds publicly releases Linux version 0.01. While a computer science student at the University ofHelsinki Linus created the Linux operating. Linus originally named his operating system Freax.
[1991 Oct 5] Linus Torvalds decides to announce the availability of a free minix- like kernel called Linux on Usenet.
[1992] Masters of Deception (MOD) phone phreakers busted via wiretaps.
[1992] Morty Rosenfeld convicted after hacking into TRW , stealing credit card numbers and selling reports.
[1992 Jan 29] Minix creator, Andy Tanenbaum , posts the infamous LINUX is obsolete newsgroup posting oncomp.os.minix. Later, Linux creator Linus Torvalds quickly responds to the posting.
[1992 Nov] Kevin Mitnick cracks into California Department of Motor Vehicles .
[1993 Mar 1] Microsoft releases Windows NT .
[1993 Jun] Slackware , by Patrick Volkerding , becomes the first commercial standalone distribution of Linux .
[1993 Jul 9] The first Def Con hacking conference takes place in The conference is meant to be a one- timeparty to say good- bye to BBSs (now replaced by the Web), but gathering is so popular it becomes an annual event.
[1993 Aug] Justin Petersen arrested for stealing computer access equipment.
[1993 Oct 28] Randal Schwartz uses Crack at Intel to crack passwords, later found guilty under an Oregon computercrime law, and sentenced.
[1993 Dec] FreeBSD version 1.0 is released.
[1994] Red Hat is founded.
[1994] Linux 1.0 is released.
[1994 Jan 12] Mark Abene ('Phiber Optik') starts his one year sentence. As a founding member of the Masters ofDeception , Mark inspired thousands of teenagers around the country to "study" the internal workings of our nation'sphone system. A federal judge attempted to "send a message" to other hackers by sentencing Mark to a year in federalprison, but the message got garbled: Hundreds of well-wishers attended a welcome- home party in Mark's honor at aManhattan Club. Soon after, New York magazine dubbed him one of the city's 100 smartest people. Other MODmembers: Elias Ladopoulos ('Acid Phreak'), Paul Stira ('Scorpion'), John Lee ('Corrupt'), Allen Wilson ('Wing'), 'TheSeeker', 'HAC', 'Red Knight', 'Lord Micro' and Julio Fernandez ('Outlaw').
[1994 Mar 23] 16-year-old music student Richard Pryce ('Datastream Cowboy') is arrested and charged with breakinginto hundreds of computers including those at the Griffiths Air Force base, NASA and the Korean Atomic ResearchInstitute . The Times of London reported that knowing he was about to be arrested, Richard "curled up on the floor andcried." Pryce later pled guilty to 12 hacking offenses and fined $1,800. Later, Matthew Bevan ('Kuji'), mentor to Prycewas finally tracked down and arrested. The charges against Bevan were later dropped and now he works as a computersecurity consultant.
[1994 Jun 13] Vladimir Levin , a 23-year-old, led a Russian hacker group in the first publicly revealed international bank
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