Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai

2010

[2001 Jul 12] Notorious hacker group World of Hell managed to deface 679 web sites in just one minute.

[2001 Jul 17] Code Red worm is released. The worm exploits vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Internet Information ServerIIS. The worm got its name from "Code Red" Mountain Dew which was used to stay awake by the hackers thatdisassembled the exploit.

[2001 Jul 16] 27-year old Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov arrested at Def Con 9 for creating a program to copy Adobe electronic books. He was charged with violating the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act . Demitry was laterreleased, as part of the agreement, Sklyarov will testify for the government in the case that remains against ElcomSoft ,the company that sells the copying software.

[2001 Aug 21] Washington- based Riggs bank has its Visa customer database stolen by hackers.

[2001 Sep 18] Nimda worm (admin backwards) starts to spread, infecting Microsoft IIS servers that are open to knownsoftware vulnerabilities.

[2001 Nov 20] Hackers access Playboy.com's credit card data. The hacking group 'ingreslock 1524' responsibility.

[2001 Nov 20] 25 church web sites hacked by Hacking for Satan group.

[2001 Dec 8] Federal prosecutors accuse one time Los Alamos National Laboratory employee Jerome Heckenkamp ofbreaking into Qualcomm and other corporate computer systems while he was a student. Heckenkamp, they say calledhimself 'MagicFX'. When school police asked for the password for his personal computer. Court records sayHeckenkamp chuckled when he gave it up. "Hackme," he told them. Jerome suspected of hacking into a halfdozenother companies, including eBay Inc. and E*Trade Inc. , over a nine-month

[2001 Nov 26] 2 former Cisco accountants sentenced to 34 months breaking into company computers and stealingstock.

[2002 Feb 25] A 17-year-old female hacker, from Belgium, calling herself 'Gigabyte' takes credit for writing the first-evervirus, called 'Sharpei', written in Microsoft's newest programming language C# (C sharp).

[2002 Jul 11] Hackers broke into USA Today's web site and replaced several of the newspaper's legitimate news storieswith phony articles. Israeli hackers were suspeted.

[2002 Jul 25] Princeton University admissions officials gained unauthorized access to a web site at rival Yale University containing personal information about applicants to the Ivy League school, according to officials at both institutions.

[2002 Jul 30] Copies of OpenSSH are trojaned. OpenSSH is a popular, free version of the SSH (Secure Shell)communications suite and is used as a secure replacement for protocols such as Telnet, Rlogin, Rsh, and Ftp. The mainopenBSD (ftp.openbsd.org) mirror was compromised, after developers noticed that the checksum of the package hadchanged.

[2002 Aug 2] Italian police arrest 14 suspected hackers who are accused of thousands of computer intrusions, includingattacks on the U.S. Army and Navy and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration . They were all members oftwo hacking groups, called Mentor and Reservoir Dogs .

[2002 Aug 17] Federal law enforcement authorities searched the computers of a San Diego security firm that used theInternet to access government and military computers without authorization over the summer. Investigators from theFBI,the Army and NASA visited the offices of ForensicTec Solutions Inc. seeking details about how the company gainedaccess to computers at Fort Hood in Texas and at the Energy Department, NASA and other government facilities. Thesearches began hours after it was reported that ForensicTec consultants used free software to identify vulnerablecomputers and then peruse hundreds of confidential files containing military procedures, e-mail, Social Security numbersand financial data, according to records maintained by the company. While ForensicTec officials said they wanted to helpthe government and "get some positive exposure for themselves," authorities are pursuing the matter as a criminal case.

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