Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai

2010

[1986 Aug] In August, while following up a 75 cent accounting error in the computer logs at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab at the University of California, Berkeley, network manager Clifford Stoll uncovers evidence of hackers at work. A yearlonginvestigation results in the arrest of the five german hackers responsible.

[1987 Sep 14] It's disclosed publicly that young german computer hackers calling themselves the Data Travellers,managed to break into NASA network computers and other world-wide top secret computer installations.

[1987 Nov 23] Chaos Computer Club hacks NASA's SPAN network.

[1987 Dec] Kevin Mitnick invades systems at Santa Cruz Operation . Mitnick sentenced to probabtion for stealingsoftware from SCO, after he cooperates by telling SCO engineers how he got into their systems.

[1988 Jun] The U.S. Secret Service (USSS) secretly videotapes the SummerCon hacker convention.

[1988 Nov 2] Robert T. Morris, Jr. , a graduate student at Cornell University and son of a chief scientist division of the National Security Agency (NSA), launches a self- replicating worm on the government's ARPANET (precursor to theInternet) to test its effect on UNIX systems. The worm gets out of hand and spreads to some 6,000 networkedcomputers, clogging government and university systems. Morris is dismissed from Cornell, sentenced to three yearsprobation and fined $10,000.

[1988 Nov 3] First mention of the Morris worm on Usenet.

[1988 Dec] Legion of Doom hacker Robert Riggs ('The Prophet') cracks BellSouth AIMSX computer network and downloads E911 document (describes how the 911 emergency phone system works). Riggs sends a copy to Phrack editor Craig Neidorf ('Knight Lightning'). Both Craig and Robert are raided Federal authorities and later indicted. The indictment said the "computerized text file" was worth $79,449, BellSouth security official testified at trial it was worth $24,639. The trial began on July 23, 1990 but the proceedings unexpectedly ended when the government asked the court to dismiss all the charges when it was discovered that could call a toll- free number and purchase the same E911 document for less than $20.

[1988 Dec 16] 25-year-old computer hacker Kevin Mitnick is held without bail on charges that include stealing $1 millionin software from DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), including VMS source code, and causing that firm $4 million indamages.

[1989] 22-year-old computer hacker member Corey Lindsly ('Mark Tabas') pleaded guilty to felony chargesrelating to using a computer to access system illegally, which resulted in five years probation. [see also 1995Feb. 'Phonemasters']

[1989] At the Cern laboratory for research in high-energy physics in Geneva, Tim Berners- Lee and Robert Cailliau develop the protocols that will become the world wide web.

[1989 Jan 23] Herbert Zinn ('Shadowhawk'), a high school dropout, was the first to be convicted (as a juvenile) under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 . Zinn was 16 when he managed to break into AT&T and Department of Defensesystems. He was convicted on January 23, 1989, of destroying $174,000 worth of files, copying programs valued atmillions of dollars, and publishing passwords and instructions on how to violate computer security systems. Zinn wassentenced to nine months in prison and fined $10,000.

[1989 May] A task force in Chicago raids and arrests an alleged computer hacker known as 'Kyrie'.

[1989 Jun] An underground group of hackers known as the NuPrometheus League distributes proprietary softwareillegally obtained from Apple Computer .

[1989 Jul 21] Known as the "Atlanta Three" case, 3 members of the LOD/H (Legion of Doom) where charged with hackinginto Bell South's Telephone (including 911) Networks - possessing proprietary BellSouth software and Information,unauthorized intrusion, illegal possession of phone credit card numbers with intent to defraud, and Conspiracy. The threehackers where: Franklin Darden ('The Leftist'), Adam Grant ('The Urvile' and 'Necron 99'), Robert Riggs ('The Prophet').

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