Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
2010
[2002 Aug 28] The Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) web site is defaced , and copyrighted mp3s areuploaded to the server. The RIAA along with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), has won many criticsonline in its quest to shut down popular file- trading networks such as Napster .
[2002 Sep 20] Samir Rana ('Torner') a 21 year-old London hacker is arrested following a year- long investigation into thecreation of the Linux rootkit program called Tornkit and on suspicion of being a member of the infamous hacker groupFluffy Bunny. It was later reporter that Rana owned the pink stuffed toy depicted in website defacements by FluffyBunny.
[2002 Sep 23] A UK hacker received an 18-month prison sentence for corporate sabotage. Stephen Carey, a 28-year-oldcomputer engineer from Eastbourne, Sussex, is sentenced to 18 months for hacking into a firm's database andmodifying information.
[2002 Oct 4] Hacker Vasily Gorshkov, 27, of Chelyabinsk, Russia, is sentenced to three years in prison for convictionson 20 counts of conspiracy, fraud and related computer crimes. Gorshkov is also ordered to pay restitution of nearly$700,000 for losses he caused to Speakeasy Network of Seattle, and the online credit card payment company PayPal .
[2002 Oct 8] CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) advisory is released detailing the discovery of a back door(trojan horse) found in the source code files of Sendmail 8.12.6.
[2002 Oct 16] Microsoft admits to being hacked. The security breach took place on a server that hosts Microsoft'sWindows beta community, which allows more than 20,000 Windows users a chance to test software that is still indevelopment.
[2002 Oct 21] A distributed denial-of-service (Dee-Dos) attack, lasting one sent a barrage of data at the 13domainnameservice root servers . The attack was in the form of an ICMP flood, was blocked by many of the root servers,preventing any real loss of network performance.
[2002 Nov 12] Gary McKinnon ('Solo'), 36, of London, an unemployed British sysadmin was indicted for what USauthorities describe as the "biggest hack of military computers ever detected". From February 2001 until March 2002,McKinnon allegedly exploited poorly- secured Windows systems to attack 92 networks run by NASA , the Pentagon and12 other military installation scattered over 14 states. Private sector businesses were also affected by the allegedattacks, which caused an estimated $900,000 damage overall. Prosecutors said that McKinnon "stole passwords,deleted files, monitored traffic and shut computer networks on military bases from Pearl Harbour to Connecticut".
[2002 Nov 22] Lisa Chen, a 52-year-old Taiwanese woman who pleaded no contest in one of the largest software piracycases in the U.S. was sentenced to nine years in prison, one of the longest sentences ever for a case involving softwarepiracy. Chen was arrested along with three associates in November 2001 after local sheriffs seized hundreds ofthousands of copies of pirated software worth more than $75 million, software that Chen smuggled from Taiwan.
[2002 Dec 17] A jury acquitted ElcomSoft, Russian software company, of criminal copyright charges related to selling aprogram that can crack antipiracy protections on electronic books. The case against ElcomSoft is considered a crucialtest of the criminal provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a controversial law designed to extendcopyright protections into the digital age.
[2003 Jan 21] Computer hacker Kevin Mitnick is goes online for the first time in nearly a decade. He was captured in araid and sent to jail for almost five years for computer crimes against companies including Sun Microsystems and Motorola . The prison term was followed by another three and a half years of restrictions regarding Mitnick's access tocomputers and the Internet.
[2003 Jan 21] Simon Vallor , 22, a British Web designer was sentenced to two years in prison for writing one of theworld's most destructive viruses which wiped out computers worldwide. Vallor was the author of 3 viruses -- "Gokar,""Redesi," and "Admirer" -- "Gokar" spread the most widely and was at one point ranked as the third most prevalent virusof all time.
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