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25 Most Notorious Hacker To Ever Get Caught (part 2) by Sholah96(m): 10:35am On Jul 09, 2014
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(HD Moore)
HD Moore is the creator of the computer software Metasploit which was developed to test computer networks resistance to hacker penetration. HD Moore is also known for software projects such as WarVOX, AxMan, the Metasploit Decloaking Engine and Rogue Network Link Detection Tools. As a computer engineer, he concerned himself with the development of platforms intended to become security tools designed to test for vulnerabilities within networks in order to aid the development of stronger network protection software.
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(Dennis Moran)
One of the most notorious computer criminals of the 20th century, Dennis M. Moran was involved in a series of denial-of-service attacks that caused hundreds of internet websites to shut down. Also known as Coolio, Dennis Moran also masterminded the defacement of the DARE and RSA Security websites, as well as the unauthorized access of the computer systems of the US Air Force and US Army. As an adult, he was charged of 7 counts of Class A felonies related to illegal access to networks.
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(Kristina Svechinskaya)
Kristina Vladimirovna Svechinskaya is a young Russian hacker who got involved in several plots to defraud some of the largest banks in the United States and Great Britain. She used a trojan horse to attack and open thousands of bank accounts in the Bank of America, through which she was able to skim around $3 billion in total.
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(Sam Jain)
An internet entrepreneur and the former chief executive officer of eFront, Sam Jain was arrested in California in 2000 after being charged with submitting fraudulent data to website ranking publisher Media Matrix. Prior to that, he had a pending case in California because of his involvement in the sale of counterfeit Symentec software. He also got involved in the ICQ instant messaging scandal, which allowed him to access private data from several internet accounts.
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(Karl Koch)
A German hacker who became famous in the 1980’s, Karl Koch was involved in the sale of hacked information from US military computers to the KGB, the main security agency of the Soviet Union. He was a member of different hacking organizations such as the CCC (Chaos Computer Club), and worked with individual hackers such as DOB or Dirk-Otto-Brezinski and Urmel. He was among the few hackers who got involved in the Cold War computer espionage incident.
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(Ehud Tenenbaum)
An Israeli cracker, Ehud Tenenbaum caught the attention of the media at the young age of 19, after he led a group of young hackers that damaged the computer networks of some of the largest institutions in the United States. Young as he was, he was arrested for hacking the computer systems of the US Air Force, NASA, US Navy, The Pentagon, Knesset and MIT. He also hacked into the computers of terrorist groups based in Palestine and destroyed the websites of Islamist organization Hamas.
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(Leonard Rose)
Leonard Rose was a hacker convicted in 1991 due to wire fraud. He was known for having stolen Unix source codes from AT&T and distributed two Trojan Horse programs which allowed him to gain illegal access to several computer systems. He was also accused of being the mastermind of the Legion of Doom hacking group, one of the most active hacker groups from 1980’s to 1990’s, and of collecting login information from various websites.
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(Rafael Nunez)
Rafael Nunez was a member of the notorious hacking group World of Hell in 2011. As a member of the group, he got involved in several high profile attacks, finding websites with poor security and then defacing them with light-hearted messages. He was part of the Dan Verton book entitled “The Hacker Diaries: Confessions of Teenage Hackers” in 2002. Today, he is a notorious businessman dwelling in Venezuela.
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(Andrew Auernheimer)
More commonly known as “Weev,” Andrew Alan Escher Auernheimer was an internet troll who gained media attention because of his inflammatory, off-topic posts in several online communities and forums. An American grey hat hacker, Andrew was known for using several pseudonyms in his operations. He was the one responsible for the disruption of Amazon’s services in 2009 and for hacking the website of The New York Times.
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(Mark Abene)
Known by his pseudonym Phiber Optik, Mark Abene was a New York-based hacker who used to be a member of some of the most notorious hacker groups in the United States, including the Legion of Doom and the Masters of Deception. He was a high-profile hacker who targeted large corporations and was among the most important figures of the Masters of Deception. Aside from computers, he also explored and hacked several telecommunication systems.
Re: 25 Most Notorious Hacker To Ever Get Caught (part 2) by Andyblaze: 10:43am On Jul 09, 2014
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