Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai

2010

robbery over a network. Stealing around 10 million dollars from Citibank , which claims to have recovered all but$400,000 of the money. Levin was later caught and sentenced to 3 years in prison.

[1994 Aug] Justin Petersen electronically steals $150k from Heller Financial.

[1994 Sep] Netcom's (bought by MindSpring, MindSpring then bought by Earthlink) credit card database was on- line andaccessible to the unauthorized.

[1994 Dec 25] Kevin Mitnick (supposedly) cracks into Tsutomu Shimomura's computers. Mitnick was first suspected ofhacking into Tsutomu's computers in 1994 but an unknown Israeli hacker (friend to Mitnick) was later suspected. TheIsraeli hacker was thought to be looking for the Oki cell phone disassembler written by Shimomura and wanted byMitnick.

[1995 Jan 27] Kevin Mitnick cracks into the Well ; puts Shimomura's files and Netcom (bought by MindSpring, MindSpringthen bought by Earthlink) credit card numbers there.[1995 Feb] Ex-LOD member, Corey Lindsly ('Mark Tabas') was the major ringleader in a computer organization,known as the 'Phonemasters', whose ultimate goal was to own the telecommunications infrastructure coast-tocoast.The group penetrated the systems of AT&T , British Telecom ., GTE , MCI WorldCom , Sprint , Southwestern Bell and systems owned by state and federal governmental agencies, to include the National Crime Information Center(NCIC) computer. They broke into credit- reporting databases belonging to Equifax Inc. and TRW Inc . They entered Nexis/Lexis databases and systems of Dun & Bradstreet . They had access to portions of the national power grid, airtraffic-control systems and had hacked their way into a digital cache of unpublished phone numbers at the White House .A federal court granted the FBI permission to use the first ever "data tap" monitor the hacker's activities. Thesehackers organized their assaults on the computers through teleconferencing utilized the encryption program PGP tohide the data which they traded with each other. On Sep. 16 1999 Lindsly, age 32, of Portland, Oregon, wassentenced to forty-one months imprisonment and ordered to to the victim corporations. Other'Phonemasters' members: John Bosanac ('Gatsby') from San Diego, Cantrell ('Zibby') and Brian Jaynes bothlocated in Dallas, Rudy Lombardi ('Bro') in Canada, Thomas Gurtler Calvin Cantrell, age 30, of Grand Prairie,Texas, was sentenced to two years imprisonment and ordered to pay $10,000 to the victim corporations. John Bosanacgot 18 months.

[1995 Feb 15] Kevin Mitnick arrested and charged with obtaining unauthorized access to computers belonging tonumerous computer software and computer operating systems manufacturers, cellular telephone manufacturers,InternetService Providers, and educational institutions; and stealing, copying, and misappropriating proprietary computersoftware from Motorola , Fujitsu , Nokia Novell , and NEC . Mitnick was also in possession of 20,000 credit cardnumbers.

[1995 Mar 18] SATAN (Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks) security tool released to the Internet by DanFarmer and Wietse Venema . The release stirs huge debate about security auditing tools being given to the public.

[1995 May 5] Chris Lamprecht ('Minor Threat') becomes 1st person banned from Internet. Chris was sentenced for anumber of crimes to which he pled guilty. The crimes involved the theft and sale of Southwestern Bell circuit boards. Inthe early 1990s Chris wrote a program called ToneLoc (Tone Locator), a phone dialing program modeled on the programMatthew Broderick used in the movie WarGames to find open modem lines in telephone exchanges.

[1995 Aug 16] French student Damien Doligez cracks 40-bit RC4 encryption. The challenge presented the encrypteddata of a Netscape session, using the default exportable mode, 40-bit RC4 encryption. Doligez broke the code in eightdays using 112 workstations.

[1995 Sep 11] 22-year-old Golle Cushing ('Alpha Bits') arrested for selling credit card and cell phone info.

[1995 Sep 17] Ian Goldberg and David Wagner broke the pseudo- random number generator of Netscape Navigator 1.1.They get the session key in a few hours on a single workstation.

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