TOP FIVE HACKERS of the world

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 compute rs
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.