Agent.btz (2008): You mad Pentagon?
Viruses, whether virtual or real, have impacted our lives. If the virus is well known, more likely it caused a lot of damage and grief to people around the world. Virtual viruses, like worms and trojans, have been known to corrupt or steal sensitive information from one’s computer. Here is one of the most well known […]
Adrian “homeless hacker” Lamo
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Adrian Lamo BORN: February 20, 1981 WHERE: Boston, Massachusetts OCCUPATION: Threat Analyst Adrian Lamo is a Columbian-American threat analyst and gay hat hacker. He started to gain popularity when he broke into high profile company computer networks, like Yahoo, Microsoft and the New York Times, which also led to his arrest in […]
Matthew Bevan As A Hacker
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Matthew Bevan WHERE: Cardiff Wales OCCUPATION: Hacker Mathew Bevan is a British hacker from Cardiff, Wales. In 1996 he was arrested for hacking into secure US government networks under the handle or codename Kuji. At the age of 21, he hacked into US military network systems and gained access to their files such as the Wright Patterson Air Force […]
“BIEST MILITARY COMPUTER HACK OF ALL TIME”
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Gary Mckinnon BORN: February 10, 1966 WHERE: Glasgow, Scotland OCCUPATION: Hacker McKinnon was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome or Asperger disorder, is an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction, alongside restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. It differs from other autism spectrum disorders by its relative preservation of linguistic and cognitive […]
Conficker Virus (2009): Win32 you say?
Viruses, whether virtual or real, have impacted our lives. If the virus is well known, more likely it caused a lot of damage and grief to people around the world. Virtual viruses, like worms and trojans, have been known to corrupt or steal sensitive information from one’s computer. Here is one of the most well known […]
Stuxnet (2009-2010): Virus in Real Life?
Viruses, whether virtual or real, have impacted our lives. If the virus is well known, more likely it caused a lot of damage and grief to people around the world. Virtual viruses, like worms and trojans, have been known to corrupt or steal sensitive information from one’s computer. Here is one of the most well known […]
Fun Fact: Software Design
What is Software Design? What is software design? Before we explore on what it is as a whole, let us first break down the words that were used to create the word namely, software and design. Software is essentially a set of instructions that can be understood by computer systems. It tells the computer what […]
Onel De Guzman: The Terminator
What did he do? 1999 – AMA Computer College Makati student Onel de Guzman submitted a thesis proposal for the creation of a computer program that will hack into computer systems and extract vital information, particularly Internet Service accounts. The thesis title is Email Password Sender Trojan. What did the College do? The […]
Richard Stallman: The man who loves the word “free”
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Richard Matthew Stallman BORN: March 16,1953 WHERE: New York City OCCUPATION: President of the Free Software Foundation What did he do? As a hacker in MIT’s AI laboratory, Stallman worked on software projects such as TECO, Emacs, and the Lisp machine operating system. He would become an ardent critic of restricted computer […]
The man who created computer worm
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Robert Tapan Morris BORN: November 8,1965 WHERE: United States OCCUPATION: Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Partner, Combinator What did he do? l Back in 1988, while a graduate student at Cornell University, Morris created the first worm and released it on the Internet. He claimed it was all an experiment gone awry, […]
