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Hacking news: The most famous hackers!!!
Dear Readers
Today we would like to present you a list of top 12 hackers. We devided them
into black hat hackers - which stands for Internet term of someone violating
computer or Internet security maliciously or for illegal personal gain, and white
hat hackers that breach security for non-malicious reasons, perhaps to test their
own security system or while working for a security company which makes
security software. The term "white hat" in Internet slang refers to ethical hackers.
Top black hat hackers:
1. Robert Tappan Morris - creator of the Morris Worm in 1988, which was
considered the first computer warm on the Internet
2. Kevin Mitnik (aka condor) - commited arious computer and
communications-related crimes. He was caught in 1995 with the help of
security expert Tsutomu Shimomura
3. Jonatan James (aka c0mrade) - committed a series of intrusions into
various systems, he installed a backdoor into a Defense Threat Reduction
Agency server, that enabled him to view sensitive emails and capture
employee usernames and passwords. He also cracked into NASA
computers and stole software worth $1.7 million
4. Adrian Lamo - broke into several high-profile computer networks, like The
New York Times, Yahoo!, and Microsoft
5. Michael Calce (aka MafiaBoy) - launched a series of highly publicized
denial-of-service attacks gainst large commercial websites including
Yahoo!, Fifa.com, Amazon.com, Dell and CNN
6. Kevin Poulsen - took over of all of the telephone lines for Los Angeles
guaranteeing that he would be the 102nd caller and win the prize of
Porsche
Top white hat hackers:
1. Tsutomu Shimomura - he assisted FBI with tracking down the Kevin Mitnik
2. Steve Wozniak - inventor and computer programmer. He co-founded Apple
Computer (now Apple Inc.). He also founded Wheels of Zeus (WOZ) to
create wireless GPS technology.
3. Richard Matthew Stallman - is a software freedom activist and computer
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programmer. Best known for launching the GNU Project and founding the
Free Software Foundation a
4. Linus Torvalds - he is a software engineer, who was the principal force
behind the development of the Linux kernel, later on he became the chief
architect of the Linux kernel.
5. Tim Berners Lee (aka TimBL) - best known as the inventor of the World
Wide Web, creator of the system that we are using to navigate the Internet
in order to find files, folders, and websites.
6. Julian Assange - he is known as the editor-in-chief and founder of
WikiLeaks, which publishes secret information.
As you can see, it's your choice whether you choose the dark side or the bright
side of the force. Whatever you choose to do you should start with reading
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