so The term "hacker" can mean two different things:
1- Someone who is very good at computer programming, networking, or other related computer functions and loves to share their knowledge with other people.
2- Someone who uses their expert computer skills and knowledge to gain unauthorized access to systems, corporations, governments, or networks.
so in this article ,i will report about the eight Hackers that preparing the most dangerous in history!
Gary McKinnon:
He (born 10 February 1966) is a Scottish systems administrator and hacker who was accused in 2002 of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time.
Jonathan Joseph James:
He (December 12, 1983 – May 18, 2008) was an American hacker who was the first juvenile incarcerated for cybercrime in the United States. The South Florida native was 15 years old at the time of the first offense and 16 years old on the date of his sentencing. He died on May 18, 2008, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Albert Gonzalez:
He (born 1981) is an American computer hacker and computer criminal who is accused of masterminding the combined credit card theft and subsequent reselling of more than 170 million card and ATM numbers from 2005 through 2007—the biggest such fraud in history. Gonzalez and his accomplices used SQL injection to deploy backdoors on several corporate systems in order to launch packet sniffing (specifically, ARP Spoofing) attacks which allowed him to steal computer data from internal corporate networks.
George Francis Hotz:
He (born October 2, 1989), alias geohot, is an American hacker known for unlocking the iPhone, allowing the phone to be used with other wireless carriers, contrary to AT&T's and Apple's intentions. He developed the limera1n jailbreak tooland bootrom exploit for iOS. He is also noted for his technical efforts and publicity with reverse engineering the PlayStation 3 video game console, and for subsequently being sued by and settling with Sony. As of December 2015, he is working on his vehicle automation machine learning company comma.
Adrian Lamo:
He (born February 20, 1981) is a Colombian-American threat analyst and former hacker.
Lamo first gained media attention for breaking into several high-profile computer networks, including those of The New York Times,Yahoo, and Microsoft, culminating in his 2003 arrest. In 2010, Lamo reported U.S. soldier PFC Bradley Manning (now known as Chelsea Manning) to federal authorities, claiming that Manning had leaked hundreds of thousands of sensitive U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks.
David L Smith:
He is the hacker who released the Melissa virus is 1999. This internet virus ended up clogging and shutting down email systems because it overloaded servers. It caused $80 million in damage, and cost Smith 20 months in jail time.
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I’m quite happy that not all hackers are bad, and hopefully you can now see the difference as well. Hacking has a large number of meanings, and many of them are still disputed by those affected today. At least now you don’t have to scowl every time you hear the mention of “hacker”.
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