Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai

2010

imprisonment and ordered to pay a $3,000.00 fine. Miffleton associated himself with a group known as "the DarksideHackers", who were interested in using unauthorized access devices to fraudulently obtain cellular telephone servicethrough cloned cellular telephones or long distance telephone service through stolen calling card numbers.

[2000 Aug 17] United States District Judge Lewis Kaplan in New York bars Eric Corley ('Emmanuel Goldstein'), publisherof 2600 magazine , from republishing software hacks that circumvent DVD industry encryptions. The code would enablemovies to be more readily copied and exchanged as data files on the Internet.

[2000 Sep 5] A 21-year-old New Rochelle, New York man was sentenced to four months in prison for breaking into twocomputers owned by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1998 and using one to host Internet chat rooms devoted tohacking, prosecutors said. Raymond Torricelli ('rolex') was a member of the hacking group '#conflict' which used theircomputers to electronically alter the results of the annual MTV Movie Awards . Additionally, over 76,000 discretepasswords were found on Raymond's personal computer.

[2000 Sep 6] Patrick W. Gregory ('MostHateD'), age 20, pled guilty for his role as a founding member hacking ringcalled GlobalHell and is sentenced to 26 months imprisonment, three years supervised release, and ordered to pay$154,529.86 in restitution. GlobalHell is said to have caused at least $1.5 million in damages to various corporationsand government entities, including the White House and the U.S. Army . Gregory, a high school dropout who has said hewants to start his own computer security business, admits in a plea agreement to stealing telephone conferencingservices from AT&T , MCI , and Latitude Communications and holding conference calls between 1997 and May 1999 withother hackers around the country.

[2000 Sep 26] Jason Diekman ('Shadow Knight', 'Dark Lord') arrested after agents discovered evidence on Diekman s computers indicating that he intercepted usernames and passwords fro m universities, including Harvard University. In a statement he made to investigators, Diekman admitted hacked into "hundreds, maybe thousands" of computers, including systems at JPL , Stanford , Cornell University , the California State University at Fullerton , and University of California campuses in Los Angeles Diego . On February 4, 2002, Diekman was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison, three years supervised restricted use of the computer and over $87,000 in restitution.

[2000 Oct] Microsoft admits that its corporate network has been hacked and source code for future Windows productshas been seen. Hacker suspeted to be from St Petersburg.

[2000 Oct 10] FBI lure 2 Russian hackers arrest in Seattle, after it was determined that Alexei Ivanov, 20, andVasiliy Gorshkov, 25, spent two years American businesses. The FBI established a bogus computer securityfirm that they named, fittingly enough, They leased office space in downtown Seattle and immediately calledIvanov in Russia about possible employment hacker. The FBI communicated with Gorshkov and Ivanov, by e-mailand telephone during the summer and fall of 2000. The men agreed to a face- to- face meeting and on Nov. 10, Gorshkovand Ivanov flew to Seattle and went directly to a two-hour "job interview" with undercover FBI agents who were posingas Invita staff. The Russians were asked to further demonstrate their hacking skills on an IBM Thinkpad provided by theagents. The hackers happily complied and communicated with their home server back in Chelyabinsk, unaware that thelaptop they were using was running a "sniffer" program that recorded their every keystroke. The FBI agents' descriptionsof the meeting portray Ivanov and Gorshkov as not only blissfully ignorant of their impending arrest, but also somewhatcocky about their hacking skills. At one point in the meeting, as Gorshkov glibly detailed how he and Ivanov extortedmoney from a U.S. Internet service provider after hacking into its servers, he told the room of undercover agents that"the FBI could not get them in Russia."

[2000 Oct 28] After 9 million hack attempts security web site AntiOnline is defaced by Australian hacker 'ron1n' ('n1nor'). AntiOnline was deemed "unhackable" by the sites owner, John Vranesevich , but a poorly coded cgi script(s) written byVranesevich led to the hack.

[2000 Nov 7] A 19-year-old Dutch hacker named 'Dimitri' broke in to Microsoft ’s internal web servers with intentions toshow the company its vulnerability due to not installing their own patches.

[2000 Dec 13] More than 55,000 numbers were stolen from Creditcards.com , which processes credit transactions foronline companies. About 25,000 of them were posted online when an extortion payment was not made.

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