Timeline of computer security hacker history

Timeline of computer security hacker history. Hacking and system cracking appeared with the first electronic computers. Below are some important events in the history of hacking and cracking.

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technical experts; skilled, often young, computer programmers, who almost whimsically probe the defenses of a computer system, searching out the limits and the possibilities of the machine. Despite their seemingly subversive role, hackers are a recognized asset in the computer industry, often highly prized
The newspaper describes white hat activities as part of a "mischievous but perversely positive 'hacker' tradition". When a National CSS employee revealed the existence of his password cracker, which he had used on customer accounts, the company chastised him not for writing the software but for not disclosing it sooner. The letter of reprimand stated that "The Company realizes the benefit to NCSS and in fact encourages the efforts of employees to identify security weaknesses to the VP, the directory, and other sensitive software in files".[5]

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  8. "Beware: Hackers at play". Newsweek. September 5, 1983. pp. 42–46, 48.
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  19. Eichin, M.W. and Rochlis, J.A.: "With Microscope and Tweezers: An Analysis of the Internet Virus of November 1988", MIT(1989)
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  26. Hackers jam Microsoft's site, 1997
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  29. "North Korean hackers sabotage computer networks of South Korea". Pravda Online. Retrieved 2008-10-14.
  30. Rob Lemos. "Campaign seeks to defang Rafa's hacker image", "Security Focus", April 11, 2005.
  31. Krebs, Brian. "Teen Pleads Guilty to Hacking Paris Hilton's Phone", The Washington Post, September 13, 2005.
  32. Iain Thomson (2005-11-04). "FBI sting nets botnet hacker". vnunet.com. Archived from the original on 2007-12-20. Retrieved 2008-09-26.
  33. Jeremy Kirk (17 May 2007). "Estonia recovers from massive denial-of-service attack". Network World. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
  34. Michael Cooney (13 June 2007). "FBI: Operation Bot Roast finds over 1 million botnet victims". Network World. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
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  43. Broad, William J.; Sanger, David E. (18 November 2010). "Worm in Iran Can Wreck Nuclear Centrifuges". The New York Times.
  44. Mohit Kumar (26 March 2011). "Thousands of Bank of America Accounts Hacked !". The Hacker News - Biggest Information Security Channel. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
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  46. Is Department of Defense (DoD), Pentagon, NASA, NSA secure?, TheHackerNews, May 14, 2011.
  47. Eduard Kovacs (26 September 2011). "700,000 InMotion Websites Hacked by TiGER-M@TE". softpedia. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
  48. John P. Mello Jr. "Sesame Street Hacked, Porn Posted". PC World. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
  49. Alaa Ashkar. "PA Telecommunications minister: Palestinian Internet Under Hacking Attacks". IMEMC. Retrieved 2011-11-02.
  50. Ashcraft, Brian. "Steam Forums Apparently Hacked". Kotaku.
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  52. Flock, Elizabeth (January 3, 2012). "Saudi hackers say they published Israeli credit card information". The Washington Post.
  53. Saudi Hacker Threatens to Release 1 Million Israeli Credit Card Numbers, Curt Hopkins, 6 January 2012
  54. "Israeli hacker retaliates to credit card hacking". BBC News. January 12, 2012.
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  60. USA Gov., Farmers Ins., Mastercard and + Hacked!, Pastebin -
  61. "Various Telecommunication companies breached by #NinjaSec".
  62. Scada Systems of 6 Countries Breached by sl1nk - http://zerosecurity.org/2012/12/scada-systems-of-6-countries-breached-by-sl1nk
  63. "Burger King Twitter account 'hacked' with McDonald's logo". 18 February 2013 via www.bbc.com.
  64. New Times Broward-Palm Beach - http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2013/02/anonymous_hacked_burger_king_horse_meat.php
  65. Gizmodo- http://gizmodo.com/5985385/jeeps-twitter-account-has-been-hacked
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  67. "White House computer network 'hacked' - BBC". BBC. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  68. Michael Angelo Santos. "Globe Website was Hacked by Blood Sec Hackers". Coorms.
  69. "A Teen Hacker Is Targeting Russian Sites as Revenge for the MH17 Crash".
  70. "Unprecedented cyber attack takes Liberia's entire internet down".

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