There are soo many hackers in the world who works to do ethical or malicious activities in thier daily life.Sometimes this activities make them very popular in hacking world.
Today in this article,We are going to talk about some of the most top hackers in the world and thier stories.
1. Kevin Mitnick
The self-styled 'hacker poster boy' allegedly hacked into the computer system of some of the world's top technology and telecommuniaction companies including Nokia,Fujitsu and Motorola.
After a highly published pursuit by the FBI,Mitnick was arrested in 1995 and after confessing to several charges as part of a plea-bargain agreement,he served a five year prison sentence.
he was released on parole in 2000 and today runs a computer security consultancy and a public speaker for computer security.
He now runs a Mitnick security consulting,LLC.
He didn't refer to his hacking as 'Hacking' and instead called them 'Social Engineering'.
2. Kelvin poulson
Poulson first gained notoriety by hacking into the phones of Los Angeles radio station KIIS-FM,ensuring he would the 102nd caller and thus the winner of a competition the station was running in which the prizes was a porsche.
Under the hacker alias Dark Dante,he also reactivated old yellow page escort telephone numbers for an acquaintance that then ran a virtual escort agency.
The authorities began pursuing poulson in earnest after he hacked into a federal investigation database.
Poulson even appeared in the US television Unsolved Mystries as a fugitive-althought all the 1-800 phone lines for the program mysteriously crashed.
Since his release from prison,Poulson has reinvented himself as a journalist.
3.Adrian Lamo
Adria lamo was named 'the homeless hacker' for this penchants for using coffee shops,libraries and internet cafe's as his bases for hacking.
Most of his illicit involved breaking into computer networks and then reporting on thier vulnerabilities to the companies that owned them.
Lamo's biggest claim to frame came when he broke into the intranet of the Newyork Times and added his name to thier database of experts.
He also used the paper's LexisNexis account to gain access to the confidential details of high-profile subjects.
Lamo currently works as a journalist.
4.Stephen Wozniak
While studing at the university of california he made device for his friend called'blue boxes' that allowed them to make free long distance phone calls.
Woznaik allegedly used one such device to call the pope.
He later dropped out of the university after he began work on an idea for a computer.
He formed 'Apple computer' with his friend Steve jobs and tge rest,as they say,is history.
5.Loyd Blankenship
Also known as the Mentor,Blankenship was a member of a couple of hacker elite groups in the 1980's-notably the Legion of Doom,who battled for supremacy online aginst the masters of Deception.
However,his biggest claim to fame is that he is the author of the hacker Manifesto(The conscience of the hacker)
Which he wrote after he was arrested in 1986.
The Manifesto states that a hacker's only crime is curiosity and is looked at as not only a moral guide by hackers up to
today,but also a cornerstone of hacker philosophy.
It was reprinted in phrack magazine and even made its way into the 1995 film Hackers, which starred angelina jolie.
6.Michael Calce
Calce gained notoriety when he was just 15 years old by hacking into some of the largest commercial websites in the world.
On the valentine's day in 2000,using the hacker alias Mafiaboy,Calce launched a series of denial-of-services attacks across 75 computers in 52 networks,Which affected sites such as eBay,Amazon and Yahoo.
He was arrested after he was noticed boasting about his hack in online chat rooms.
He was received a sentence of eight months of 'open custody',one year of probation,restricted use of internet,and a small fine.
7.Robbert Tappan Morris
In november of 1998 a computer virus,which was later traced to cornell university,infected around 6000 major unix machines,slowing them down to the point of being unusable and causing millions of dollors in damage.
whether this virus was the first of its type is debatable.
What is public record,however,its that its creator,Robert Tappan Morris,became the first person to be convicted under the computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Morris said his 'Worm' virus wasn't intended to damage anything and was instead released to gauge the size of the internet.
This assertion didn't help him,however,and he was sentenced to three year probation,4000 hours of community service and a hetty fine.
A computer disk containing the source code for the morris worm remains on display at the boston Museum of science to this day.
8.The Master of Deception
The Master of Deception(MOD) were a newyork-based group of elite hackers who taught US phone systems in the mid to late 80s.
A splinter group from the Legion of Doom(LOD),they became a target for the authorities after they brole into AT&T's computer system.
The group was eventually brought to heel in 1992 with many of its members receiving jail or suspended sentences.
9.David L.Smith
Smith is the author of the notorious Melissa Worm Virus,which was the first successful email-aware virus distributed in the usenet discussion group alt.sex.
The virus original form was sent via email.Smith was arrested and the later sentenced to jail for causing over $80 million worth of damage.
On the valentine's day in 2000,using the hacker alias Mafiaboy,Calce launched a series of denial-of-services attacks across 75 computers in 52 networks,Which affected sites such as eBay,Amazon and Yahoo.
He was arrested after he was noticed boasting about his hack in online chat rooms.
He was received a sentence of eight months of 'open custody',one year of probation,restricted use of internet,and a small fine.
7.Robbert Tappan Morris
whether this virus was the first of its type is debatable.
What is public record,however,its that its creator,Robert Tappan Morris,became the first person to be convicted under the computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Morris said his 'Worm' virus wasn't intended to damage anything and was instead released to gauge the size of the internet.
This assertion didn't help him,however,and he was sentenced to three year probation,4000 hours of community service and a hetty fine.
A computer disk containing the source code for the morris worm remains on display at the boston Museum of science to this day.
8.The Master of Deception
A splinter group from the Legion of Doom(LOD),they became a target for the authorities after they brole into AT&T's computer system.
The group was eventually brought to heel in 1992 with many of its members receiving jail or suspended sentences.
9.David L.Smith
The virus original form was sent via email.Smith was arrested and the later sentenced to jail for causing over $80 million worth of damage.
10.Sven Jaschan
The viruse where found to be responsible for 70% of all the malwares seen spreading over the internet at the time.
Jaschan received a suspended sentence and three years probation for his crime.He was also hired by a security company.
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