History of Hacking
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Timeline:
<1970 -="" computers="" early="" p="" radios="">
1970 - mainframes of campuses became targets
1980 - PCs were invented
1990 - internet
2000 - bluetooth, tablets, smartphones ..
>2000 -
international law for computer crimes was established
"Making things
easier for hackers is the fact that early network
technologies such as
the Internet were never designed with security
as a goal. The goal
was the sharing of information."
Famous hacks through
the years:
1988 - 1st internet
worm was created by Robert T. Morris, Jr.
1994 - Kevin Lee
Pulsen took over telephone lines of Kiss-FM to win a Porsche
1999 - David L. Smith
created "Melissa" virus w/c email itself to entries
in user's address book
2001 - Jan de Wit
created "Anna Kournikova" virus w/c reads all entries of
a user's outlook address book
2002 - Gary McKinnon
connected to deleted critical US military files
2004 - Adam Botbyl
(together w/ 2 other friends) stole credit card information
from Lowe's hardware chain
2005 - Cameron
Lacroix hacked into Paris Hilton's phone
2009 - Kristina
Vladimirovna (good looking russian hacker) skimmed around
3 billion US $ on US banks
mid 2000s -
"Stuxnet" virus attacked uranium production
- "anonymous" group
attacked local government networks
Generic examples of Cyber crimes
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1. stealing usernames and passwords
2. network intrusions
3. social engineering (involves human
interaction)
4. posting/transmitting of illegal material
5. fraud
6. software piracy
7. dumpster diving (reconstruction of broken
data)
8. malicious code (viruses)
9. unauthorized destruction of data
10. embezzlement
(form of financial fraud)
11. data-diddling
(modification of information to cover up activities)
12. Denial-of-service
(overloads a system resource)
13. ransomware
(encrypts files on target system to get money)
Devices and Systems that adds security
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Software:
- VPNs (Virtual
Private Networks)
- IPs (Intrusion
Prevention Systems)
- firewalls
- ACLs (Access
Control Lists)
- biometrics
- smartcards
Physical security:
- cable locks
- device locks
- alarm systems
Malicious Attacks
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- Denial-of-service
(DoS)
- manipulation of
stock prices
- identity theft
- vandalism
- credit card theft
- piracy
- theft of service
Known hacker groups
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Anonymous
LulzSec
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