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Hacking M***********s!!

Hacking M***********s!!. Who is this guy?. John Draper (aka Captain Crunch). John Draper (aka Captain Crunch). World’s first ‘phreaker’ In 1972, he discovered a toy whistle in a box of Cap’n Crunch cereal produced a 2600 hz tone which provided access to ATT’s long distance network

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Hacking M***********s!!

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  1. Hacking M***********s!!

  2. Who is this guy? John Draper (aka Captain Crunch)

  3. John Draper (aka Captain Crunch) • World’s first ‘phreaker’ • In 1972, he discovered a toy whistle in a box of Cap’n Crunch cereal produced a 2600 hz tone which provided access to ATT’s long distance network • Developed the ‘blue box’ tone generator

  4. John Draper (aka Captain Crunch) • Arrested by the FBI and sent to prison numerous times for phreaking • Stephen Wozniak, a student at Berkeley, manufactured and sold the blue box to make money to finance the first Apple computer • Wozniak also called the Pope using a blue box • Where is Captain Crunch now? Founder of ShopIP which sells the CrunchBox firewall system (endorsed by Steve Wozniak)

  5. Who is this Guy? Robert Morris, Jr.

  6. Robert Morris, Jr. • Released Morris worm in 1988 • First major Internet Worm • Cornell University student (released the worm through MIT) • Morris worm exploited vulnerabilities in sendmail, fingerd, rsh/rexec and weak passwords • Infected 6000 Unix machines • Damage estimate: $10m - $100m

  7. Robert Morris, Jr. • First person to be tried and convicted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act • Received 3 years probation and a $10,000 fine • CERT was created in response to the Morris worm • Morris’s father was chief security officer for the National Security Agency (NSA) • Where is he now? A professor at MIT, of course!

  8. Who is this Guy? Kevin Mitnick • Fugitive Hacker • Started as a ‘phreaker’ • Inspired by John Draper (Captain Crunch) • Using a modem and a PC, he would take over a local telephone switching office

  9. Kevin Mitnick • Arrested multiple times • Breaking into Pacific Bell office to steal passwords and operator’s manuals • Breaking into a Pentagon computer • Stealing software from Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) • Stealing software from DEC • Fled when FBI came to arrest him for breaking terms of probation

  10. “The Lost Boy of Cyberspace”

  11. Tsutomu Shimomura helped track down the fugitive Mitnick in 1995. This was documented in the book and movie Takedown.

  12. Kevin served 5 years in federal prison

  13. Where is he now? Author and co-founder of security firm called ‘Defensive Thinking’

  14. His book

  15. Kevin Mitnick • “The simple truth is that Kevin never sought monetary gain from his hacking, though it could have proven extremely profitable. Nor did he hack with the malicious intent to damage or destroy other people's property. Rather, Kevin pursued his hacking as a means of satisfying his intellectual curiosity and applying Yankee ingenuity. These attributes are more frequently promoted rather than punished by society.” …excerpt from Kevin’s WEB site

  16. Hacker party • Captain Crunch with ‘friends’ Kevin Mitnick and Stephen Wozniak

  17. Who is this Guy? • David Smith: Author of the Melissa Virus

  18. Melissa Virus • Virus released in March, 1999 • A ‘macro virus’ • Infects Microsoft Word document • Spread via Microsoft Outlook • Requires user to open attachment • Sends itself to first 50 entries in address book • Relatively non-destructive

  19. Melissa Virus • Damage estimated at $80 million • One of earliest viruses to be spread by email • Smith was caught within a week • FBI working with AOL • Smith sentenced to 20 months in jail and a $5000 fine • Could have been 10 years in jail, but he agreed to help FBI catch other hackers

  20. David Smith (Melissa virus) • "When I posted the virus, I expected that any financial injury would be minor and incidental," he said. • Where is he now? Serving time at the federal prison in Fort Dix, N.J.

  21. Who is this Guy? • Onel de Guzman – accused of releasing the I LOVE YOU (Love Bug) virus

  22. I Love You Virus • Infected 45 million computers in May 2000 • Clogged e-mail world-wide • Destroyed music/graphics files • Damage estimated as high as $10 billion • Replicates itself through: • E-mail • Internet Chat • Shared drives

  23. I Love You virus • De Guzman was a former student at the AMA Computer College in the Philippines. • Failed to graduate because AMA professors rejected his thesis which described a program which steals internet passwords • Admitted he may have ‘accidentally’ released the virus • Where is Guzman now? All charges were dismissed because the Philippines had no anti-hacking laws in place when the crime occurred

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