Timeline of computer security hacker history

This is a timeline of computer security hacker history. Hacking and system cracking appeared with the first electronic computers. Below are some important events in the history of hacking and cracking.

1970s

1971

1980s

1981

  • The Warelords forms in The United States, founded by Black Bart (cracker of Dung Beetles in 1982) in St. Louis, Missouri, and was composed of many teenage hackers, phreakers, coders, and largely black hat-style underground computer geeks. One of the more notable group members was Tennessee Tuxedo, a young man that was instrumental with developing conference calls via the use of trunk line phreaking via the use of the Novation Apple Cat II that allowed us to share our current hacks, phreaking codes, and new software releases. Other notable members were The Apple Bandit, Krakowicz, and Krac-man. Black Bart was clever at using his nationally known and very popular BBS system in order to promote the latest gaming software. He used that relationship to his advantage, often shipping the original pre-released software to his most trusted code crackers during the beta-testing phase, weeks prior to their public release. The Warelords often collaborated with other piracy groups at the time, such as The Syndicate and The Midwest Pirates Guild and developed an international ring of involved piracy groups that reached as far away as Japan. Long before the movie War Games went into pre-production, The Warelords had successfully infiltrated such corporations and institutions as The White House, Southwestern Bell "Ma Bell" Mainframe Systems, and large corporate providers of voice mail systems.

1982

1983

  • The group KILOBAUD is formed in February, kicking off a series of other hacker groups which form soon after.
  • The movie WarGames introduces the wider public to the phenomenon of hacking and creates a degree of mass paranoia of hackers and their supposed abilities to bring the world to a screeching halt by launching nuclear ICBM's.
  • The 414s are caught and investigated by the FBI. Although most members are not charged with a crime, they gain widespread media attention[5][6], eventually becoming a cover story of Newsweek entitled "Beware: Hackers at play". [7]
  • The U.S. House of Representatives begins hearings on computer security hacking.[8]
  • In his Turing Award lecture, Ken Thompson mentions "hacking" and describes a security exploit that he calls a "Trojan horse". [9]

1984

1985

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1986

  • After more and more break-ins to government and corporate computers, Congress passes the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which makes it a crime to break into computer systems. The law, however, does not cover juveniles.
  • Arrest of a hacker who calls himself The Mentor. He published a now-famous treatise shortly after his arrest that came to be known as the Hacker's Manifesto in the e-zine entitled Phrack. This still serves as the most famous piece of hacker literature and is frequently used to illustrate the mindset of hackers.
  • Astronomer Clifford Stoll plays a pivotal role in tracking down hacker Markus Hess, events later covered in Stoll's 1990 book The Cuckoo's Egg.[10]

1987

1988

1989

1990s

1990

  • Operation Sundevil introduced. After a prolonged sting investigation, Secret Service agents swoop down on organizers and prominent members of BBSs in 14 U.S. cities including the Legion of Doom, conducting early-morning raids and arrests. The arrests involve and are aimed at cracking down on credit-card theft and telephone and wire fraud. The result is a breakdown in the hacking community, with members informing on each other in exchange for immunity. The offices of Steve Jackson Games are also raided, and the role-playing sourcebook GURPS Cyberpunk is confiscated, possibly because the government fears it is a "handbook for computer crime". Legal battles arise that prompt the formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, including the trial of Knight Lightning.
  • Australian federal police tracking Realm members Phoenix, Electron and Nom are the first in the world to use a remote data intercept to gain evidence for a computer crime prosecution.[14]

1992

1993

  • The first DEF CON hacking conference takes place in Las Vegas. The conference is meant to be a one-time party to say good-bye to BBSs (now replaced by the Web), but the gathering was so popular it became an annual event.
  • AOL gives its users access to USENET, precipitating Eternal September.

1994

  • Summer: Russian crackers siphon $10 million from Citibank and transfer the money to bank accounts around the world. Vladimir Levin, the 30-year-old ringleader, uses his work laptop after hours to transfer the funds to accounts in Finland and Israel. Levin stands trial in the United States and is sentenced to three years in prison. Authorities recover all but $400,000 of the stolen money.
  • Hackers adapt to emergence of the World Wide Web quickly, moving all their how-to information and hacking programs from the old BBSs to new hacker Web sites.
  • AOHell is released, a freeware application that allows a burgeoning community of unskilled script kiddies to wreak havoc on America Online. For days, hundreds of thousands of AOL users find their mailboxes flooded with multi-megabyte email bombs and their chat rooms disrupted with spam messages.

1995

  • February 22: The FBI raids the "Phone Masters".[15]

1996

1997

  • A 15-year-old Croatian youth penetrates computers at a U.S. Air Force base in Guam[16].
  • June: Eligible Receiver 97 tests the American government's readiness against cyberattacks.
  • December: Information Security publishes first issue.
  • First high-profile attacks on Microsoft's Windows NT operating system[1]
  • In response to the MP3 popularity, the Recording Industry Association of America begins cracking down on FTPs[2]. The RIAA begins a campaign of lawsuits shutting down many of the owners of these sites including the more popular ripper/distributors The Maxx (Germany, Age 14), Chapel976 (USA, Age 15), Bulletboy (UK, Age 16), Sn4rf (Canada, Age 14) and others in their young teens via their ISPs. Their houses are raided and their computers and modems are taken. The RIAA fails to cut off the head of the MP3 beast and within a year and a half, Napster is released.

1998

1999

  • Software security goes mainstream In the wake of Microsoft's Windows 98 release, 1999 becomes a banner year for security (and hacking). Hundreds of advisories and patches are released in response to newfound (and widely publicized) bugs in Windows and other commercial software products. A host of security software vendors release anti-hacking products for use on home computers.
  • The Electronic Civil Disobedience project, an online political performance-art group, attacks the Pentagon calling it conceptual art and claiming it to be a protest against the U.S. support of the suppression of rebels in southern Mexico by the Mexican government. ECD uses the FloodNet software to bombard its opponents with access requests.
  • U.S. President Bill Clinton announces a $1.46 billion initiative to improve government computer security. The plan would establish a network of intrusion detection monitors for certain federal agencies and encourage the private sector to do the same.
  • January 7: an international coalition of hackers (including CULT OF THE DEAD COW, 2600 's staff, Phrack's staff, L0pht, and the Chaos Computer Club) issued a joint statement ([3]) condemning the LoU's declaration of war. The LoU responded by withdrawing its declaration.
  • March: The Melissa worm is released and quickly becomes the most costly malware outbreak to date.
  • July: CULT OF THE DEAD COW releases Back Orifice 2000 at DEF CON
  • August: Kevin Mitnick, "the most wanted man in cyberspace",[who?] sentenced to 5 years, of which over 4 years had already been spent pre-trial including 8 months solitary confinement.
  • September: Level Seven hacks The US Embassy in China's Website and places racist, anti-government slogans on embassy site in regards to 1998 U.S. embassy bombings. [4]
  • September 16: The United States Department of Justice sentences the "Phone Masters".[17]
  • October: American Express introduces the "Blue" smart card, the industry's first chip-based credit card in the US.

2000s

2000

  • May: The ILOVEYOU worm, also known as VBS/Loveletter and Love Bug worm, is a computer worm written in VBScript. It infected millions of computers worldwide within a few hours of its release. It is considered to be one of the most damaging worms ever. It originated in the Philippines; made by an AMA college student for his thesis.

2001

  • Microsoft becomes the prominent victim of a new type of hack that attacks the domain name server. In these denial-of-service attacks, the DNS paths that take users to Microsoft's Web sites are corrupted.
  • February: A Dutch cracker releases the Anna Kournikova virus, initiating a wave of viruses that tempts users to open the infected attachment by promising a sexy picture of the Russian tennis star.
  • April: FBI agents trick two into coming to the U.S. and revealing how they were Hacking U.S. banks [5].
  • May:
  • July: Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov is arrested at the annual Def Con hacker convention. He is the first person criminally charged with violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
  • August: Code Red worm, infects tens of thousands of machines.

2002

2003

2004

  • March: Myron Tereshchuk is arrested for attempting to extort $17 million from Micropatent.
  • July: North Korea claims to have trained 500 hackers who successfully crack South Korean, Japanese, and their allies' computer systems.[18]

2005

2006

  • January: One of the few worms to take after the old form of malware, destruction of data rather than the accumulation of zombie networks to launch attacks from, is discovered. It had various names, including Kama Sutra (used by most media reports), Black Worm, Mywife, Blackmal, Nyxem version D, Kapser, KillAV, Grew and CME-24. The worm would spread through e-mail client address books, and would search for documents and fill them with garbage, instead of deleting them to confuse the user. It would also hit a web page counter when it took control, allowing the programmer who created it as well as the world to track the progress of the worm. It would replace documents with random garbage on the third of every month. It was hyped by the media but actually affected relatively few computers, and was not a real threat for most users.
  • February: Direct-to-video film The Net 2.0 is released, as a sequel to The Net, following the same plotline, but with updated technology used in the film, using different characters, and different complications. The director of The Net 2.0, Charles Winkler, is son of Irwin Winkler, the director of The Net.
  • May: Jeanson James Ancheta receives a 57 month prison sentence, [6] and is ordered to pay damages amounting to $15,000.00 to the Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake and the Defense Information Systems Agency, for damage done due to DDoS attacks and hacking. Ancheta also had to forfeit his gains to the government, which include $60,000 in cash, a BMW, and computer equipment [7].
  • May: Largest Defacement in Web History is performed by the Turkish hacker iSKORPiTX who successfully hacked 21,549 websites in one shot. [8]
  • September: Viodentia releases FairUse4WM tool which would remove DRM information off WMA music downloaded from music services such as Yahoo Unlimited, Napster, Rhapsody Music and Urge.
  • October: Jesus Oquendo releases Asteroid, a SIP Denial of Service testing tool. It broke all versions of Asterisk until 1.2.13. Asteroid is also known to affect certain SIP Softphones, SIP Phones and possibly other products using the SIP protocol. It was used in Henning Schulzrinne's Columbia University seminars. See MITRE CVE-2006-5444 and CVE-2006-5445

2007

  • May 17: Estonia recovers from massive denial-of-service attack[20]
  • June 13: FBI Operation Bot Roast finds over 1 million botnet victims[21]
  • October 7: Trend Micro website successfully hacked by Turkish hacker Janizary(a.k.a Utku)[25]
  • November 29: FBI Operation Bot Roast II: 1 million infected PCs, $20 million in losses and 8 indictments[26]

2008

  • January 18: Project Chanology Anon attacks Scientology website servers around the world. Private documents are stolen from Scientology computers and distributed over the Internet
  • March 7: Around 20 Chinese hackers claim to have gained access to the world's most sensitive sites, including The Pentagon. They operate from a bare apartment on a Chinese island.[27]
Wikipedia

14 Best Hacker in the World

14 Best Hacker in the World

Hackers are people who learn, analyze, and if want, can create, modify, or even exploit the system that exists in a device such as computer software and computer hardware such as a computer program, administrative and other matters, particularly security.
Here’s some 14 Best Hacker in the World at this time:

1. Kevin Mitnick
Kevin is the first hacker in the face in “FBI Most Wanted.” poster.
Kevin is also a “Master of Deception” and has written a book entitled “The Art of Deception.”
This book explains various social engineering techniques to gain access to the system.

2. Linus Torvalds
A bred hacker-, to develop the Linux operating system is a combination of “Linus MINIX”.
Linux operating system has become the “standard” hacker.
Together with Richard Stallman with the GNU-Linux version of its initial build and collaborate with a programmer, developper and hackers around the world to develop the Linux kernel.

3. John Draper
The 2600 single-tone whistle Herz use a plastic box is a gift from cereals.
Is a pioneer of 2600 Hz tone and is known as Phone Phreaker (Phreaker, read: frieker)
2600 Hz tone is used as a tool to make the phone free.
On development, 2600 Hz tone is no longer made with a plastic whistle, but uses a tool called the “Blue Box”.

4. Mark Abene
As one of the “Master of Deception” phiber optics, menginspirasikan thousands of young people to learn the internal phone system state. Phiber optical dinobatkan also as one of 100 people by wiz New York Magazine.
Using Apple computers, Timex Sinclair and Commodore 64.
Computer is the first Radio Shack TRS-80 (trash-80).

5. Robert Morris
A scientist from the National Computer Security Center, which is part of the National Security Agencies (NSA).
First time writing so that the Internet Worm momental in 1988.
And infected thousands of computers connected in a network.

6. Richard Stallman
One of the “Old School Hacker”, working on the MIT Artificial Intelligence lab.
Feeling disturbed by commercial software and copyright and privacy.
Eventually establish GNU (read: guhNew), which stands for GNU is NOT UNIX.
Using the first computer in 1969 at the IBM Center Scintific New York at the age of 16.

7. Kevin Poulsen
Fraudulent conduct of the KIIS-FM digital radio station, to ensure that it is the caller to win the 102 and porsche 944 S2.

8. Ian Murphy
Ian Muphy with 3 colleagues, make hacking into AT & T computers and write settings to its internal hours.
This resulted in the user community get phone discounts at “midnight” at the time of the afternoon, and had to wait until midnight to pay the bills more increase.

9. Vladimir Levin
Graduates St. Tekhnologichesky Petersburg University.
Trick Citibank computer and got 10 millions dollar profit.
Interpol arrested at Heathrow Airport in 1995

10. Steve Wozniak
Build a Apple computer and use the “blue box” for own interest.
11. Tsutomu Shimomura
Successfully captured Kevin Mitnick impressions.

12. Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thomson
Dennis Ritchie is the author of a C language, with Ken Thomson UNIX operating system to write elegantly.

13. Eric Steven Raymond
Mr. hackers. Hacktivist and a opensource pioneer movement.
Write a lot of hacking guide, one of which is: “How To Become A Hacker” and “The new hacker’s Dictionary”.
So fenomenal and known by all people of the world of hacking.
According to Eric, “the world has many problems to be solved danmenanti interesting.”

14. Johan Helsingius
Operate the most popular anonymous remailer in world.

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