It is true that the Internet is still very vulnerable, but some people stood out for hacking sites and networks supposedly safe. Some for pleasure, others for money, there was even one who did out of revenge. The only thing certain is that these boys under 10 have given a lot of headaches for his actions on the Internet.
Today, most of whom are no longer part of "the dark side" and virtual work in digital security, but you know your place? Discover the 10 most famous hackers in history on this list that TechTudo prepared for you.
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10. David L. Smith
Smith is the author of the notorious "Melissa worm", responsible for overload and shut down several servers, e-mail in 1999. Smith was arrested and sentenced in 2002 to 10 years in prison for having caused more than $ 80 million loss. The penalty came to be reduced to 20 months (plus a fine of $ 5000) when Smith agreed to work with the FBI shortly after his capture. Initially he worked 18 hours per week, but soon the demand grew, making him work 40 hours per week. He was asked to obtain connections between the authors of new viruses, keeping the attention of software vulnerabilities and helping to capture the invaders.
9. Robert Morris
American, son of the chief scientist of the National Computer Security in the U.S., Morris was responsible for creating a virus that arrived in 6000 affect computers in 1988 (about 10% of Internet time), making them unusable. He was the first to be convicted by the law of the Computer Fraud and Abuse in the United States, but neither served the sentence. Currently he is considered the master of the creators of malware and is working as a tenured professor at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
8. Kevin Poulsen
His main achievement was in 1990 when Poulsen intercepted all phone lines of radio station KIIS-FM, thus winning a contest held by the issuer of California. The prize was a Porche for the listener who phoned 102. Poulsen ensured his car, but spent 51 months in prison. Today he is director of the Security Focus Web site and publisher of Wired.
7. Onel de Guzman
Virus creator of the famous "I love you" that was sent by e-mail with an attachment called "Love-the-letter-for-you". Upon execution, the virus caused the message to be sent to all contacts of the victim, and in addition to retransmit the virus infected some files and endorsed several others, causing the malware to be executed every time the person attempted to open an MP3 file, for example.
It is estimated that the "I love you" has been sent to more than 84 million people, causing a total loss of $ 8.7 billion.
The Filipino student who sent the virus did it for pure spite, since it was a work of faculty rejected. He was acquitted for lack of legislation involving computer crimes in his country, and also by a lack of evidence.
6. Vladimir Levin
Graduated from the University of Technology St.Petesburg, Russia, the Russian hacker was the brain of an attack on the computers of Citibank. With access to the banking network, he diverted $ 10 million customer accounts. He was arrested by Interpol at Heathrow Airport in 1995.
5. Jon Lech Johansen
Norwegian, Johansen is also known as "DVD John" because he managed to bypass the protection incorporated in the regional commercial DVDs. His parents were sued in their place, after all, he was just 15, but were acquitted on the judge's following claim: 'objects like DVDs are more fragile than, for example, books, people should be able to make a backup copy for personal use '. Lucky!
It appears that Johansen is working to break the systems of anti-copy Blu-Ray discs that followed DVDs
4. Jonathan James
It was the first teenager to be arrested for computer crimes in the United States in 1999. He broke into the computers of the Department of Defense, NASA and the U.S., at 15 years of age. James committed suicide in May 2008, and along with the body was found a letter with five pages, explaining that he no longer believed in the justice system. That's because he was being investigated by the Secret Service to have ties - which he denied - to a large theft of customer data from several North American stores in 2007.
3. Raphael Gray
The British hacker Raphael Gray was sentenced to only 19 years for stealing 23,000 credit card numbers, including one from Bill Gates. Using data from stolen credit cards, Gray has created two sites, "ecrackers.com" and "freecreditcards.com, where he published details of stolen credit cards of pages of e-commerce, including the number he claimed to be the card Credit Bill Gates, the millionaire's house phone. That drew the attention of the FBI who "visited" in March 1999.
2. Adrian Lamo
The American of 30 years became the most famous "gray hat hacker" of the past decade. In 2003, invaded the system of The New York Times just to include yourself in the list of contributors. He is also known for breaking a series of high security systems for the computer network, such as Microsoft, Yahoo, MCI WorldCom, Excite @ Home, and the phone companies SBC, Ameritech and Cingular.
1. Kevin Mitnick
The most famous hacker in history. In 1990, Kevin Mitnick broke into several computers at telecom operators and Internet service providers, and fool the FBI and become one of the most wanted cyber criminals on the internet (that story has even turned into a movie). In 1995 he was arrested five years after being released on bail, but the first three years of freedom can not connect to internet. Today, Mitnick is a consultant in digital security, including taking part in the event Campus Party 2010 in Brazil.
