Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
2010
comes after receiving confirmed reports that hackers breached some of their servers by entering Hotmail accountsthrough third-party Internet providers without using passwords.
[1999 Aug 19] ABC news web site defaced by United Loan Gunmen.
[1999 Sep 5] C-Span web site defaced by United Loan Gunmen.
[1999 Sep 13] Drudge Report web site defaced by United Loan Gunmen
[1999 Sep 23] Nasdaq and American Stock Exchange web sites defaced by United Loan Gunmen.
[1999 Nov] 15-year-old Norwegian, Jon Johansen , one of the three founding members of MoRE (Masters of ReverseEngineering), the trio of programmers who created a huge stir in the DVD marketplace by releasing DeCSS , a programused to crack the Content Scrambling System (CSS) encryption used to protect every DVD movie on the market. OnJan. 24, 2000 authorities in Norway raid Johansen's house and take computer equipment.
2000s
[2000 Jan 15] 19-year-old Raphael Gray ('Curador') steals over 23,000 credit card numbers from 8 small companies.Raphael styled himself as a "saint of e-commerce", as he hacked into U.S., British and Canadian companies during a"crusade" to expose holes in Internet security and who used computer billionaire Bill Gates' credit card details to sendhim Viagra.
[2000 Feb 7] 16-year-old Canadian hacker nicknamed ' Mafiaboy ', carried distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)spree using attack tools available on the Internet that let him launch a remotely coordinated blitz of 1-gigabits- per-secondflood of IP packet requests from "zombie" servers which knocked off- line for over 3 hours. After pleding guilty'Mafiaboy' was sentenced on Sep. 12 2001 to eight months in detention center.
[2000 Feb 9] Two days later the DDoS attacks continued, this time hitting eBay , Amazon , Buy.com , ZDNet , CNN , E*Trade and MSN.
[2000 May] GAO (General Accounting Office) auditors were able to gain access to sensitive personal information fromthe Department of Defense (DOD) through that was publicly available over the Internet. The auditors tapped intothis file without valid user authentication gained access to employee's Social Security numbers, addresses and payinformation.
[2000 May 15] Love Bug virus sent from Philippines; AMA computer college. Michael Buen & Onel de Guzman aresuspected of writing the virus.
[2000 Jun 1] Qualcomm in San Diego hacked by University of Wisconsin-Madison student Jerome Heckenkamp ('MagicFX').
[2000 Jun 15] An Information Technology consultant breached the security of British internet service provider Redhotant to expose security lapses. He managed to obtain the names, addresses, passwords and credit card details of more than24,000 people, including military scientists, government officials, and top company executives just to show it could bedone. The hacker said breaching the site's security was "child's play".
[2000 Jul 18] AOL , based in Vienna, Virginia, confirmed that records for more than 500 so-called screen names of itscustomers had been hacked. Those records typically contain information such as a customer's name, address and thecredit card number used to open the account.
[2000 Jul 7] Utilities firm Powergen located in the UK was forced to ask thousands of its customers to cancel credit cardsafter a web site blunder left a database of card details exposed.
[2000 Jul 24] Andrew Miffleton ('Daphtpunk'), age 25, of Arlington, Texas was sentenced in federal court to 21 months
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