HAWA NDO WEZI 5 BORA WA MTANDAONI (HACKERS)

TOP FIVE HACKERS of the world
(1)Gary McKinnon:
USA declared him as the biggest military
computer hacker ever. He hacked the security
system of NASA and Pentagon. This made him
one of the great black hat hacker celebrities and
got his name into the hacker's community. The
nerd is now facing 70
years of imprisonment and is deprived from
accessing internet. He has illegally accessed 97
computers and has caused around $700,000
damage to the economy. ...
(2)Robert Tappan Morris:
He is the creator of first internet worm ?Morris
worm? he was a student at Cornell and from
that where he started writing codes to create
worms as he wanted to know how large the
internet world is. But the worm lead to the slow
speed of internet and made the systems no
longer usable. There was no. ways to know how
many computers were affected but the experts
alleged that around 6000 machines. He was sent
to 3 years imprisonment, 400 hours of
community service and was fined $10,500. At
present he is a professor at Massachusetts
institute of technology, computer science and
artificial intelligence laboratory. He was the first
person
prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and
Abuse Act.
(3)Kevin David Mitnick:
The computer security consultant, author and a
hacker was accused of many cases. He broke
into the computer of top technology and
telecommunications like Nokia, Motorola, Fujitsu
Siemens and sun Microsystems. He termed his
activity as social engineering? to legalize his
acts. He hacked the Los Angeles bus transfer
system to get free rides the biggest hacking was
the breaking into the DEC system to view the
VMS source code (open virtual memory system
which lead to the clean-up cost of around
$160,000. He also gained
the full administration privileges to IBM
minicomputers at the computer learning institute
in Los Angeles for a bet.
(4)Kevin Poulson:
He is best known for his takeover of the KIIS-
FM phone lines, a Los Angeles based radio
station. He was also known as dark Dante. The
former black hat hacker is currently a senior
editor at wired news
(5) Jonathan James:
He is maestro of all hackers who broke into the
server of department of defense in the year 1999
which gave him a nick name c0mrade at the age
of 16. He also got into the hacking of NASA.
Stealing softwares of NASA and DoD later put
him into big trouble. As he was a minor the
punishment was
for for 6 months imprisonment and has to pledge
that he wont be using computers forever.