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A computer screen showing a background wallpaper photo of the Palace of Versailles A wallpaper from fractal. A wallpaper or background (also known as a desktop background, desktop picture or desktop image on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.) used as a decorative background of a graphical user interface on the screen of a computer, smartphone or other electronic device.
Michael Calce (born 1984, also known as Mafiaboy) is a security expert and former computer hacker from Île Bizard, Quebec, who launched a series of highly publicized denial-of-service attacks in February 2000 against large commercial websites, including Yahoo!, Fifa.com, Amazon.com, Dell, Inc., E*TRADE, eBay, and CNN. [1]
Website defacement: Lapsus$ hackers replaced the content of a website. The stereotype of a hacker is an individual working for themself. However, many cyber threats are teams of well-resourced experts. [44] "Growing revenues for cyber criminals are leading to more and more attacks, increasing professionalism and highly specialized attackers.
A security hacker or security researcher is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network. [1] Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, protest, information gathering, [2] challenge, recreation, [3] or evaluation of a system weaknesses to assist in formulating defenses against potential hackers.
Jeremy Alexander Hammond [9] was born and raised in the Chicago suburb of Glendale Heights, Illinois, with his twin brother Jason. [2] [10] Hammond became interested in computers at an early age, programming video games in QBasic by age eight, and building databases by age thirteen.
A black hat (black hat hacker or blackhat) is a computer hacker who violates laws or ethical standards for nefarious purposes, such as cybercrime, cyberwarfare, or malice. These acts can range from piracy to identity theft. A black hat is often referred to as a "cracker". [1]
In 1993 he created the first DEF CON hacker convention, based around a party for members of a Fido hacking network in Canada. [3] It slowly grew, and by 1999 was attracting major attention. In 1997 he created Black Hat Briefings computer security conference that brings together a variety of people interested in information security .
Samy Kamkar (born December 10, 1985) [1] is an American privacy and security researcher, computer hacker and entrepreneur. At the age of 16, he dropped out of high school. [ 2 ] One year later, he co-founded Fonality, a unified communications company based on open-source software, which raised over $46 million in private funding. [ 3 ]