Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
2010
[1995 Nov 15] On November 15, Christopher Pile becomes the first person to be jailed for writing and distributing acomputer virus. Pile, who called himself the 'Black Baron', was sentenced to 18 months in jail.
[1996] The internet now has over 16 million hosts and is growing rapidly.
[1996] Icanet, a company that designed Internet sites for public schools, was threatened by an extortionist in Germany.The deal: If Icanet agreed to buy his computer security program for $30,000, the hacker would not devastate thecompany's computers. In April, Andy Hendrata, a 27-year-old Indonesian computer science student in Germany, wasconvicted of computer sabotage and attempted extortion. He received a one- year suspended sentence and was fined$1,500.
[1996] The U.S. General Accounting Office reports that hackers attempted to break into Defense Department computerfiles some 250,000 times in 1995 alone. About 65 percent of the attempts were successful, according to the report.
[1996 Mar 6] United Press International (UPI) reveals that a hacker called 'u4ea' and also known 'eliteone','el8' and 'b1ff' on- line has been threatening to crash systems at the Boston Herald newspaper and InternetService providers in the Boston, Massachusetts area. Reports indicate that the hacker may have entered up to100 Internet sites and desytroyed files on many of them. An investigation is initiated by the NYPD Computer Crimessection.
[1996 Apr 4] According to prosecutors, 19-year-old Christopher Schanot of St. Louis, Missouri, hacked into nationalcomputer networks, military computers, and the TRW and Sprint credit reporting service.
[1996 Apr 5] 19-year-old Christopher Schanot ('N00gz') a St. Louis honor indicted in Philadelphia for computerfraud, illegal wiretapping, unauthorized access to many corporate and government computers including SouthwesternBell , BELLCORE, Sprint , and SRI .
[1996 Apr 19] Hacker s break into the NYPD’ s phone system and taped message that greeted callers. Thenew message said, "officers are too busy eating doughnuts and coffee to answer the phones." It directed callersto dial 119 in an emergency.
[1996 Jul 5] First known Excel virus, called Laroux is found.
[1996 Jul 31] Tim Lloyd plants software bomb at Omega Engineering in NJ; First federal computer sabotage case.The software time bomb destroyed the company's computer network and the global manufacturer's ability tomanufacture in the summer of 1996. caused the company $12 million in losses and cost 80 employees theirjobs. Lloyd received 41 months in jail. was ordered to pay more than $2 million in restitution.
[1996 Aug 22] Eric Jenott , a Fort Bragg, NC paratrooper is accused of hacking U.S. Army systems and furnishingpasswords to a citizen of communist China. Eric's attorney says the Fort Bragg soldier is just a computer hacker whotested the strength of a supposedly impenetrable computer system, found a weakness and then told his superiors aboutit. Eric was later cleared of the spy charges, but found guilty of damaging government property and computer fraud.
[1996 Sep] Johan Helsingius closes penet.fi. Penet.fi, the world's most popular anonymous remailer, was raided by theFinnish police in 1995 after the Church of Scientology complained that a penet.fi customer was posting the church'ssecrets on the Net. Helsingius closed the remailer after a Finnish court ruled he must reveal the customer's real e-mailaddress.
[1996 Sep 6] DoS attack against Panix.com , a New York- based ISP. An attacker used a single computer to sendthousands of copies of a simple message that computers use to start a two-way dialog. The Panix machines receivingthe messages had to allocate so much computer capacity to handle the dialogs that they used up their resources andwere disabled.
[1996 Sep 25] Kevin Mitnick indicted for damaging computers at USC . Mitnick was charged with 14 counts of wire fraud,arising from his alleged theft of proprietary software from manufacturers. The charges also accuse him of damaging USC's computers and "stealing and compiling" numerous electronic files containing passwords.
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