Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai

2010

[1997] AOHell is released, a freeware application that allows a burgeoning community of unskilled hackers -- or scriptkiddies -- to wreak havoc on America Online (AOL).

[1997 Jan 28] Ian Goldberg , a University of California-Berkeley graduate student, took on RSA Data Security's challengeand cracked the 40-bit code by linking together 250 idle workstations that allowed him to test 100 billion possible "keys"per hour. In three and a half hours Goldberg had decoded the message, which read, "This is why you should use alonger key."

[1997 Feb 5] Members of the Chaos Computer Club , the infamous hacking elite of Germany, demonstrated an ActiveXhacking program that allowed them to access copies of Quicken , the accounting software package from Intuit, andtransfer money between bank accounts, without needing to enter the normal password security systems of Quicken.

[1997 Mar 10] Hacker named 'Jester' has the first federal charges brought against a juvenile for a computer crime.'Jester' cuts off the FAA tower at Worcester Airport and sentenced to paying restitution to the telephone company andcomplete 250 hours of community service.

[1997 Apr 21] A hacker named 'Joka' managed to trick America Online to briefly shut down a site Texasbranch of the Ku Klux Klan, forcing the AOL to act, for security reasons, after it had declined to do so in response towidespread criticism that the site contains offensive material.

[1997 May 23] Carlos Felipe Salgado, Jr., 36, who used the on- line name 'Smak', allegedly inserted a sniffer programthat gathered the credit information from a dozen companies selling products over the Internet. Carlos gathered 100,000credit card numbers along with enough information to use them, said the

[1997 Jun] Netcom (bought by MindSpring, MindSpring then bought by voice-mail hacked by 'Mr Nobody'. The15-year-old intruder claimed he has been inside Netcom's voice-mail two years. There, he cracked into numerousMailboxes via his telephone key pad and used the system to break third-party telephone switches to make long-distance calls.

[1997 Oct 31] Eugene Kashpureff arrested for redirecting the NSI web page to his Alternic web site. Kashpureff designeda corruption of the software system that allows Internet- linked computers to communicate with each other. By exploitinga weakness in that software, Kashpureff hijacked Internet users attempting to reach the web site for InterNIC , his chiefcommercial competitor, to his AlterNIC web site, impeding those users' ability to register web site domain names or toreview InterNIC's popular "electronic for existing domain names.

[1997 Dec] Julio Ardita ('El Griton') a Argentinean was sentenced to a three- year probation for hacking intocomputer systems belonging to Harvard Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Naval Command, Control andOcean Surveillance Center .

[1997 Dec 8] www.yahoo.com is defaced by 'pantz' and 'h4gis'.

[1998] Two hackers, Hao Jinglong and Hao Jingwen (twin brothers) are sentenced to death by a court in China forbreaking into a bank computer network and stealing 720,000 yuan ($87,000). The Yangzhou Intermediate People ’sCourt in eastern Jiangsu province of China rejected an appeal of Hao Jingwen and upholding a death sentence againsthim. Jingwen and his brother, Hao Jinglong, hacked into the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China computers andshifted 720,000 yuan ($87,000) into accounts they had set up under phoney names. In September of 1998, theywithdrew 260,000 yuan ($31,400) of those funds. Hao Jing long ’s original sentence to death was suspended in return forhis testimony.

[1998 Jan 1] Mark Abene ('Phiber Optik'), a security expert, launched a command to check a client's password files — andended up broadcasting the instruction to thousands of computers worldwide. Many of the computers obligingly sent himtheir password files. Abene explained that the command was the result of a misconfigured system, and that he had nointention of generating a flood of password files into his mailbox.

[1998 Jan 16] Tallahassee Freenet hacked. TFN was attacked by a person or persons whose intent was clearly todestroy all of the files on the system. Before the attacks were stopped by bringing the system offline, thousands of user

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