Anonymous hacked by one of its own

Infamous hacktivist group Anonymous has been hacked by one of its own. In a message posted to the AnonOps.in site, the group claimed a former member organised the attack, taking over its AnonOps.ru and .net communications sites and publishing names and IP addresses of users online.

After receiving media attention worldwide when Sony claimed it was unwittingly involved in hacking the PlayStation Network, it seems Anonymous now has its own crisis to deal with.

"We regret to inform you today that our network has been compromised by a former IRC-operator and fellow helper named 'Ryan'," the group claimed.

The hacker brigade strongly advised users to stay clear of the AnonOps network and added: "He decided that he didn't like the leaderless command structure that AnonOps Network Admins use. So he organised a coup d'etat."

After stealing the IP addresses of hundreds of the message board's users, the mysterious Ryan reportedly launched denial-of-service attacks against AnonOps.ru and AnonOps.net, the platforms that provide communications for the group. It is where hundreds of supporters have collaborated when they brought sites such as PayPal and Bank of America offline, and commanded the cyber attacks in support of WikiLeakslast year.

Anonymous is still under attack. Going to AnonOps.net diverts to a page with the title 'LOL ANONOPS DEAD' followed by some rather unpleasant language.

Despite repeatedly denying responsibility for the hack, Anonymous has been in the spotlight since the Chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment, Kazuo Hirai, wrote to US authorities suggesting the group played a role in Sony's massive data breach.

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Wikipad -Android Based Gaming Tablet Coming on October For $499

Wikipad -Android Based Gaming Tablet Coming on October For $499

The long awaited gaming tablet with detachable controls based on Android  is set for release on October 31st. The mobile gaming tablet is named 'Wikipad' will be available for $499. Online retailing store, GameStop which has tied-up with Wikipad, has already started taking pre-orders for the Tegra-3 based tablet. Furthermore, those who pre-order a Wikipad will receive value added extras, including one issue of the GameStop-owned Game Informer digital magazine, and "full-length titles." Though these games were not announced, but GameStop plans to reveal them soon. The Wikipad will support games downloadable through PlayStation Mobile, Nvidia's Tegra Zone, Google Play and other forthcoming platforms.

Wikipad sports a 10.1-inch IPS display and will have a 1280×800 resolution. It is powered by an Nvidia Tegra 3 processor clocking at 1.4GHz. It will come with 1GB RAM and 8GB on-board storage expandable to 64GB. To put your game face on, just attach the gaming controller which features multiple buttons and analog joysticks.

Wikipad has also partnered with Gaikai for streaming video games. Gaikai, previously known as the Sony Cloud service, was bought by the company for $380 million. Gamers will be able to stream Gaikai's library of titles to their Wikipad, including big titles like Battlefield 3, Mass Effect 3 and Saints Row: The Third. 

About Wikipad:- Wikipad Inc. is a leading developer and designer of video game console tablets and devices. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Wikipad Inc. is uniquely positioned as pioneers and innovators in the mobile entertainment world. Wikipad is leading the way with its accessible and comfortable consumer devices focused on video game content while enabling traditional functions such as productivity, web, education, media and music content.

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IU experts find flaws in US web protection plan

The White House proposed new cybersecurity legislation Thursday that aimed to protect the country against threats to the national infrastructure and the economy, but it was too small a step, according to IU cybersecurity experts.
Fred Cate, a professor in the Maurer School of Law and the director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, said cybersecurity attacks are a huge problem in today’s society.
“We live in a data-driven society — almost everything we do generates or uses digital data,” Cate said. “Yet as the president and most everyone else recognizes, those data and the systems that transmit and store them are not secure.”
The proposal focuses on the protection of American citizens, critical infrastructure, government systems and privacy and civil liberties. The legislation includes harsher penalties for cybercriminals and requires the Department of Homeland Security to work with companies in the private sector to identify and address vulnerabilities.
Von Welch, the deputy director of the CACR, thinks the new legislation was a positive step, but not a big enough one.
“My concern is that it isn’t keeping up with advances we’re seeing in cybercrime,” he said.
The administration’s cybersecurity efforts have been focused on new technologies, rather than on creating legal and economic incentives for the private sector to invest in better security, Cate said. This approach hasn’t worked, he said.
“During the past two years we have witnessed massive security breaches involving hundreds of millions of Americans, involving Sony PlayStation, the online marketing firm Epsilon, even the security powerhouse RSA,” Cate said. “According to one study, more than 2,500 companies were victims of one sophisticated cyberattack that exfiltrated proprietary corporate data, and there are thousands of other successful attacks against companies and agencies.”
Cate said that U.S. counterintelligence officials report that 140 foreign intelligence organizations are actively engaged in trying to hack into U.S. government and business networks.
“Without appropriate incentives, industry won’t invest sufficiently in good security,” he said. “It is that simple.”
Welch agrees. Much of what the legislation does is formalize practices already happening, he said.
“For example, federalizing breach notification laws have already been put in place by many states, and explicitly allowing collaboration and information exchange that is already taking place by cybersecurity practitioners.”
Cate and Welch agree that there are some positive parts to the plan. Its focus on critical infrastructure, by mandating core critical infrastructure operators, creates a plan for addressing threats. Having those plans evaluated by third parties is a good step given the importance of critical infrastructure to national security, Welch said.
What’s missing from the plan, Welch said, is a similar push for other parts of the Internet.
“As recent high-profile cases such as Sony and Epsilon have shown, and what seem to be constant problems with privacy on social networking sites, there are other companies operating on the Internet that while perhaps not critical to our national security, still impact millions of people,” he said. “There is nothing in the proposed legislation to really incentivize these companies to improve their cybersecurity and, in turn, our privacy as their users.”
Cate explained how the plan could be improved.
“The plan could include legal requirements for good information security, tax incentives, safe harbor provisions for businesses that try to enhance security even if they fail, liability provisions to allow injured consumers to recover from harms caused by bad security and new enforcement powers and resources for the Federal Trade Commission,” he said.
In addition to calling for new privacy protections, he said the President should appoint the members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, which Congress created, but the administration has yet to fill.
Cate also said the administration’s plan includes no effort to curtail risky behaviors by businesses themselves.
“The recent discoveries that Google and Apple are both collecting location data on smart phone users and storing that data, unencrypted, in unsecured files suggests that some regulation may be appropriate to protect individuals as well as industry,” he said.
The bottom line? Technology is very important in security, but the administration’s focus on it is only one step towards enhancing information security.
“Technologies are like magic bullets for the government — no matter what the problem, we want to believe that technology can solve it,” Cate said. “Technology alone just isn’t enough — for security or anything else.”

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Anonymous is attacking US Chamber of Commerce website

In protest of the "PROTECT IP" bill, hacker group Anonymous plans to attack the US Chamber of Commerce website Monday evening. Hacktivist group Anonymous plans to launch attack the US Chamber of Commerce website today at 8pm EST, according to a flier posted to 4chan.org and Reddit.com, which urges Internet users to join in the fight. The distributed denial of service (DDoS) campaign is an act of protest against a piece of supposed anti-piracy legislation proposed by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) known as the “Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property” bill, or “PROTECT IP.” Anonymous, known for its campaigns against both corporations and governments around the world who the group believes stifle the free flow of information, argues that, if passed, PROTECT IP “would allow the US Government to force [Internet service providers] and search engines to censor websites they do not like under the guise of ‘copyright protection.’” The online protest was first announced Sunday in a statement released by the group, which reads:

“As pioneers of this new world, it’s our duty to resist and fight those who attempt to stop us. Whether you’re a journalist or blogger, or a participant of Anonymous, or the activists on the ground who protest against these corporate thugs and oppressive regimes and risk everything for freedom of information and speech, we are all in this battle together and we have a responsibility to protect our civil liberties.

“This attack tomorrow will send yet another message to the pigs that run the state that we will not be another cog in the f****d up clock that these corporate entities attempt to preserve through their political puppets in Washington.

“This is our world now and we will fight for it. Take it or leave it.” 

The PROTECT IP bill, a reiteration of the failed COICA bill, would give the US Justice Department broad powers to shut down access to websites it deems “dedicated to infringing activities.” As Anonymous accurately describes, these powers include forcing ISPs to block access to targeted websites, and even requiring search engines, like Google and Bing, to completely remove the websites from their search indexes. Perhaps even more troubling, the bill would also give private citizens — i.e. copyright holders — the ability to request that the government block a websites’ ability to display advertising, or process payments. Anonymous says that, rather than reduce piracy, the bill simply “endangers the free flow of information,” through the use of “domain seizures, ISP blockades, search engine censorship, and the restriction of funding to accused websites,” says Anonymous. All of this, they say, “takes Internet censorship to the next level.” The hacker’s interpretation of the bill, a summary of which leaked online last week, is echoed by a variety of other privacy advocates, who say the legislation is woefully misguided, and will result in rampant government censorship. “Protecting copyright and trademark are of course important objectives,” writes author and technology expert Larry Downes in an analysis of the bill posted to CNet. “But doing so by trampling due process rights, tinkering dangerously with the mechanics of the Internet, and impressing into police duties an expanding set of Internet service providers, hardly seems the best solution.” Anonymous first came into the world spotlight after launching a series of similar attacks on the corporate websites of PayPal, Master Card and Visa, all of which stopped processing donation payments made to whistle blowing website WikiLeaks. Most recently, members of the group were accused by Sony of initiating (or, at least, facilitating) an attack on its PlayStation Network, which resulted in the theft of nearly 13 million user credit cards, and could cost the company upwards of $170 million in damages. Those who wish to join in the DDoS attack — which simply overloads a website’s servers with an overwhelming amount of traffic, causing it to go offline — can join other Anons in the #OperationPayback IRC channel, where countless supporters have gathered to coordinate the attack. 


Anonymous Message on IP ACT

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FBI says it is "reviewing" PSN security breach

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is currently "reviewing" a recent security breach that compromised user data and downed the PlayStation Network (PSN) for over a week.

"The FBI is aware of the reports concerning the alleged intrusion into the Sony on line game server and we have been in contact with Sony concerning this matter," special agent Darrell Foxworth told Kotaku.

"We are presently reviewing the available information in an effort to determine the facts and circumstances concerning this alleged criminal activity."

Meanwhile, at least two dozen state AG's have kicked off their own investigation of the incident, with the FTC confirming it could theoretically claim jurisdiction in a case that involved loss of customer data via a securitybreach. 



"The fact that sensitive information was apparently accessed without authorization makes me especially concerned about the possibility of financial fraud and targeted phishing scams," Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen wrote in an official letter to SCE CEO Jack Tretton.

"What is more troubling is Sony's apparent failure to promptly and adequately notify affected individuals of this large-scale breach."

As expected, a number of other countries aside from the United States have expressed concern over the embarrassing and damaging security lapse.

For example, the city of Taipei (Taiwan) is apparently demanding that Sony provide satisfactory details about the leak within 10 days or face heavy fines for alleged breaches of local consumer protection laws. 

"Manufacturers and service providers should take responsibility for their customers' reasonable expectations of security, including personal information security," Taiwan capital's Law and Regulation Commission said in a letter obtained by PC World.

"This incident [is said to] involve leaks of consumer names, e-mails, birth dates and even credit card information."



Indeed, security researchers say stolen credit card information may already be up for sale on various Internet forums.

"The hackers that hacked PSN are selling off the DB. They reportedly have 2.2 million credits cards with CVVs," Trend Micro security expert Kevin Stevens claimed in a tweet.

"Supposedly the hackers selling the DB says it has: fname, lnam, address, zip, country, phone, email, password, dob, ccnum, CVV2, exp date... It is not a rumor, it was a conversation on a criminal forum. [Still], I never saw the DB so I can't verify if it is real."

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X Factor Contestants Had Private Info Hacked

Simon Cowell just can't catch a break. His bid to launch The X Factor this fall in the U.S. has had a shaky start — the judges picked have been both underwhelming and elusive, while American Idol and The Voice have come on strong — and now, he can add potential identity theft to the show's bad-luck streak. In an e-mail to contestants who have auditioned for the show, Fox reps admitted, "This week, we learned that computer hackers illegally accessed information you and others submitted to us to receive information about The X Factor auditions." The breach includes the contestants' names, e-mail addresses, Zip Codes, phone numbers, and dates of birth. Suffice it to say, if any of those contestants also have PlayStation Network accounts, this has not been a very good week.

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LastPass hacking latest in a string of data breaches

News is emerging that yet another online network may have been hacked, and this time, from a service that acts as a safe-deposit box for users other passwords.
Cloud-based password management company LastPass issued a warning to users late Wednesday advising customers to change their passwords as a precaution to what may be a massive data-breach.

"We're going to be paranoid and assume the worst: that the data we stored in the database was somehow accessed," Joe Siegrist, LastPass CEO said.
"We know roughly the amount of data transferred and that it's big enough to have transferred people's email addresses, the server salt and their salted password hashes from the database."
LastPass is one of the largest cloud-based password management tools on the web. The company serves clients in 113 countries.
It said experts are delving deeper into the breach and will release more details as they emerge.
If the hack is proven, it represents the latest in a series of high-profile data-losses in the past few weeks.

Just last month Sony admitted that its only gaming network, the Playstation Network, was hacked, potentially exposing data of nearly 80 million users. The breach, one of the largest in history, also leaked 10 million credit cards, though the company said those were encrypted.
Also today, for the second month in a row, Best Buy has had to inform customers that their e-mail addresses were stolen.
On April 22, the consumer electronics retailer discovered some e-mail addresses had been exposed in a security breach at a third-party vendor.

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FreeBSD & PC-BSD 9 Released !!

Hello BSD user I have 2 good news for you and that is both Free BSD & PC BSD 9 has been released. 

Brief About FreeBSD:-

FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for modern server, desktop, and embedded computer platforms. FreeBSD's code base has undergone over thirty years of continuous development, improvement, and optimization. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. FreeBSD provides advanced networking, impressive security features, and world class performance and is used by some of the world's busiest web sites and most pervasive embedded networking and storage devices. For more information about this release click here.

Some Highlights:- 

• The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the stable/9 branch, which improves on stable/8 and adds many new features.
• A new installer, bsdinstall(8) has been added and is the installer used by the ISO images provided as part of this release
• The Fast Filesystem now supports softupdates journaling
• ZFS updated to version 28
• Updated ATA/SATA drivers support AHCI, moved into updated CAM framework
• Highly Available Storage (HAST) framework
• Kernel support for Capsicum Capability Mode, an experimental set of features for sandboxing support
• User-level DTrace
• The TCP/IP stack now supports pluggable congestion control framework and five congestion control algorithm implementations available
• NFS subsystem updated, new implementation supports NFSv4 in addition to NFSv3 and NFSv2
• High Performance SSH (HPN-SSH)
• Flattened device tree (FDT), simplifying FreeBSD configuration for embedded platforms
• The powerpc architecture now supports Sony Playstation 3
• The LLVM compiler infrastructure and clang have been imported
• Gnome version 2.32.1, KDE version 4.7.3

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Brief About PC-BSD:-

PC-BSD is a user friendly desktop Operating System based on FreeBSD. Known widely for its stability and security in server environments, FreeBSD provides an excellent base on which to build a desktop operating system. PC-BSD uses a host of popular open source window managers and uses a custom-tailored application installer that puts popular applications in easy reach of users. For more information click Here

Some Highlights:-

• Based upon FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE
• Support for installing a variety of Window Managers, such as KDE, GNOME, XFCE, LXDE and more!
• Improved PBI system, allows library sharing, binary diff updating, custom repositories, digital signing and more!
• Support for "freebsd-update" via the System Update GUI.
• New Control Panel, providing consistent configuration options across various Window Managers.
• Improved networking utilities, including wifi quick-connect.
• Enhanced "Life-Preserver" utility for doing off-site rsync backups of user data.
• New VirtualBox / VMware disk images, with integrated guest tools.
• Support for UFS+Journaling out of box
• New graphical boot options page
• Support for installation to BootCamp partitions on OSX systems.
• And much more!

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Facebook Launches Security Bug Bounty

Facebook is set to announce today a bug bounty program in which researchers will be paid for reporting security holes on the popular social-networking Web site.

Compensation, which starts at $500 and has no maximum set, will be paid only to researchers who follow Facebook's Responsible Disclosure Policy and agree not to go public with the vulnerability information until Facebook has fixed the problem.

Facebook Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan told that "Typically, it's no longer than a day" to fix a bug,

Facebook's Whitehat page for security researchers says: 

"If you give us a reasonable time to respond to your report before making any information public and make a good faith effort to avoid privacy violations, destruction of data, and interruption or degradation of our service during your research, we will not bring any lawsuit against you or ask law enforcement to investigate you."

The compensation program is a good way to provide an incentive and show appreciation to the research community for helping keep Facebook safe for users, according to the company's security team. Up until now, researchers received recognition on the Facebook Whitehat page, maybe some "swag," and--if they were lucky--a job.

"Some of our best engineers have come to work here after pointing out security bugs on our site," like Ryan McGeehan, manager of Facebook's security response team, said Alex Rice, product security lead at Facebook. (Facebook also recently hired famed iPhone jailbreaker and Sony PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz, who works on security issues.)

Meanwhile, Facebook is allowing security researchers a way to create test accounts on Facebook to ensure they don't violate terms of use or impact other Facebook users, Rice and McGeehan said.

Facebook is following in the steps of Mozilla, which launched its bug bounty program in 2004, and Google, which offers a bug bounty program with payments ranging from $500 to more than $3,000 for finding Web security holes, as well as a program specifically for Chrome bugs.

Microsoft has offered bounties of $250,000 for information leading to the arrest of virus writers, but does not pay researchers who find bugs in its software. However, other companies do, like TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative.

Researchers typically are paid more for finding bugs in desktop software, which can take much longer to fix and to update software on computers than bugs in Web-based software, which can be fixed much more quickly.

According To FACEBOOK:- 

Eligibility

To qualify for a bounty, you must:

• Adhere to our Responsible Disclosure Policy:
  

  ... give us a reasonable time to respond to your report before making any information public and make a good faith effort to avoid privacy violations, destruction of data and interruption or degradation of our service during your research ...
• Be the first person to responsibly disclose the bug
• Report a bug that could compromise the integrity or privacy of Facebook user data, such as:
  

  • Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
  • Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF/XSRF)
  • Remote Code Injection
• Reside in a country not under any current U.S. Sanctions (e.g., North Korea, Libya, Cuba, etc.)

Our security team will assess each bug to determine if qualifies.

Rewards

• A typical bounty is $500 USD
• We may increase the reward for specific bugs
• Only 1 bounty per security bug will be awarded

Exclusions

The following bugs aren't eligible for a bounty (and we don't recommend testing for these):

• Security bugs in third-party applications (e.g., http://apps.facebook.com/[app_name])
• Security bugs in third-party websites that integrate with Facebook
• Security bugs in Facebook's corporate infrastructure
• Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
• Spam or Social Engineering techniques

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A Tribute to The 10 Most Infamous Student Hackers of All Time

A Tribute to The 10 Most Infamous Student Hackers of All Time

Since last two years, we the VOGH team has been covering all the latest cyber security updates. But today lets do some thing different. One of our frequent reader and fan Katina Solomon has requested us to share a fantastic article. Everyday VOGH draws headlines of hackers around the world and their activities. While trying to maintain speed with time, we usually forgot our past. Today we will take you into the past, where we will discuss about those heroes, who are always been ill treated by the society & the system while revamping those heroes into cyber-criminals or infamous hackers. Its our question to our humanity "Did the system has done justice with them??" 

Hacking has always been inherently a young person’s game. The first usage of the word “hacker” was to describe pranksters meddling with the phones at MIT. Many hackers have cited boredom, a desire for change, or the thrill of going somewhere one is not supposed to go as their motivation for hacking, all of which could apply to scores of common activities on college campuses. While today’s hacking scene is dominated by large hacking groups like Anonymous and Masters of Deception, many of the greatest hacks ever have been pulled off by college, high school, and even middle school kids who rose to infamy armed only with a computer and the willingness to cross the bounds of legality.

1. Sven Jaschan: In the words of one tech expert, “His name will always be associated with some of the biggest viruses in the history of the Internet.” The viruses: the Sasser and NetSky worms that infected millions of computers and have caused millions of dollars of damage since their release in 2004. The man behind the viruses proved to be not even a man at all, legally. Seventeen-year-old hacker Sven Jaschan, a student at a computer science school in Germany, claimed to have created the viruses to become a hero by developing a program that would eradicate the rampaging Mydoom and Bagle bugs. Instead he found himself the subject of a $250,000 bounty courtesy of Microsoft, for which some of his classmates turned him in.
   
2. Jonathan James: In 2000, at the age of 16, James, or “C0mrade” as he was known in the hacker community, infamously became the first juvenile federally sentenced for hacking. The targets of his notorious hack jobs were a wing of the U.S. Department of Defense called the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, NASA, and the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. (By hacking the latter James gained the ability to control the A/C in the International Space Station.) All of these were pulled off “for fun” while James was still a student at Palmetto Senior High in Miami. Unfortunately, the fun ran out when James was tied into a massive identity theft investigation. Though insisting he was innocent, James took his own life, saying he had “no faith in the justice system.”
   
3. Michael Calce: Yahoo. CNN. Ebay. Amazon. Dell.com. One by one in a matter of days, these huge websites crashed at the hands of 15-year-old Canadian high school student Michael Calce, aka “MafiaBoy.” Armed with a denial-of-service program he called “Rivolta” that overloaded servers he targeted, the young hacker wreaked $7.5 million in damages, according to court filings. Calce was caught when he fell victim to a common ailment of teenage boys: bragging. The cops were turned on to him when he began boasting in chat rooms about being responsible for the attacks. On Sept. 12, 2001, MafiaBoy was sentenced to a group facility for eight months on 56 counts of cybercrime.
   
4. Kevin Mitnick: Before performing hacks that prompted the U.S. Department of Justice to declare him “the most wanted computer criminal in United States history,” Kevin Mitnick had already made a name for himself as a hacker in his school days, first at Monroe High School in LA and later at USC. On a dare, Mitnick connived an opening into the computer system of Digital Equipment Corporation, which some fellow hackers then used to steal proprietary source code from the company before ratting on him. While still on probation for that crime, Mitnick broke into the premises of Pacific Bell and had to go on the run from police in the aftermath, during which time he hacked dozens of systems, including those of IBM, Nokia, Motorola, and Fujitsu.
   
5. Tim Berners-Lee: “Scandalous” is a synonym for “infamous,” and for this legendary computer scientist, knight of the British Empire, and inventor of the World Wide Web to have been a hacker in his school days is certainly a juicy factoid. During his time at Oxford in the mid-’70s, Sir Tim was banned from using university computers after he and a friend were caught hacking their way into restricted digital areas. Luckily by that time he already knew how to make his own computer out of a soldering iron, an old TV, and some spare parts. And also luckily for him, he will always be revered as the father of the Internet.
   
6. Neal Patrick and the 414s: In the early ’80s, hacking was still a relatively foreign concept to most Americans. Few recognized the enormous power hackers could hijack with a few strokes on a keyboard, which explains why a young group of hackers known as the 414s (after a Milwaukee area code) were virtual celebrities after they hacked into the famous Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and elsewhere. While today hacking a lab where classified nuclear research is conducted could earn you a one-way ticket to Guantanamo, the 17-year-old ringleader and high school student Neal Patrick was on the cover of Newsweek. The group members got light sentences but prompted Congress to take a stronger role in cybercrime.
   
7. Robert T. Morris: The first ever Internet worm, the Morris Worm derived its name from Cornell grad student Robert Tappan Morris. In 1988, Morris released the worm through MIT’s system to cover his tracks, which would seem to contradict his claims that he meant no harm with it. But that’s exactly what resulted: the worm spread out of control, infecting more than 6,000 computers connected to the ARPANET, the academic forerunner to the World Wide Web. The damages reached as high as an estimated $10 million, and Morris earned the ignominious distinction of being the first person prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Morris got community service but was apparently not considered too infamous to be offered his current job as a professor at MIT.
   
8. George Hotz: To some, George Hotz (aka “geohot,” aka “million75,” aka “mil”) is a public menace, a threat to electronic businesses everywhere. To many, Hotz is a hero. The high-schooler shot to fame/infamy in 2007 at the tender age of 17 by giving the world its first hacked, or “jailbroken” iPhone. He traded it for a new sports car and three new iPhones, and the video of the hacking received millions of hits. Apple has had to grudgingly come to terms with jailbreaking, seeing as the courts have declared it legal, but Sony Corp. is definitely not OK with such tampering. When Hotz hacked his PlayStation 3 and published the how-to on the web, the company launched a vicious lawsuit against him. In turn, the hacker group Anonymous launched an attack on Sony, stealing millions of users’ personal info.
   
9. Donncha O’Cearbhaill: According to the FBI, this 19-year-old freshman at Trinity College Dublin is one of the top five most wanted hackers in the world. Well, he was; now that he’s been arrested he’s not really “wanted” anymore. The Feds contend the young man is a VIP member of the Anonymous and LulzSec hacking groups that have already been mentioned and whose targets have included the FBI, the U.S. Senate, and Sony (in the Hotz backlash). It seems “Palladium” (O’Cearbhaill) took the liberty of listening in on a conference call between the FBI and several international police forces who were discussing their investigations of the hacking groups. He could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison if convicted for that hack alone.
   
10. Nicholas Allegra: Just as George Hotz moved on from the Apple hacking game, Brown University student Nicholas Allegra is also hanging up his jersey. “Comex,” as he is known to millions of rooted iPhone fans, created the simple-to-use Apple iOS jailbreaking program JailbreakMe in 2007 and has since released two newer versions of it. However, Comex seems to have gone over to the dark side, accepting an internship with the very company whose products he became famous exploiting. Still, Allegra’s hacking skills are so advanced (one author puts him five years ahead of the authors of the infamous Stuxnet worm that corrupted Iran’s nuclear facilities) and so many people availed themselves of his talents, he will forever live in hacking infamy.
    

We want to dedicate the above post to the legendary hacker, who left us -Jonathan James aka “C0mrade”. Also the post is a tribute to all the so called 'infamous hackers'. You are our heroes and inspiration, you will always be there in our soul. Team VOGH salutes you...... 

-Thank you Katina & Online Degrees

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