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AOHell was the first of what would become thousands of programs designed for hackers created for use with AOL. In 1994, seventeen year old hacker Koceilah Rekouche, from Pittsburgh, PA, known online as "Da Chronic", [1] [2] used Visual Basic to create a toolkit that provided a new DLL for the AOL client, a credit card number generator, email bomber, IM bomber, and a basic set of instructions. [3]
At the Defcon 26 hacking conference, held on August 10, 2018 in Las Vegas, seven of the L0pht members sat on a panel entitled "The L0pht Testimony, 20 Years Later (and Other Things You Were Afraid to Ask)". [28] Among other things the panel encouraged attendees to keep on hacking but stay on the side of the law that kept them out of jail. [29]
Legion Hacktivist Group, a hacking group that hijacked the Indian Yahoo server and hacked online news portals of India. Level Seven was a hacking group during the mid to late 1990s. Eventually dispersing in early 2000 when their nominal leader "vent" was raided by the FBI on February 25, 2000.
August: Hackers demand $7.5 million in Bitcoin to stop pre-releasing HBO shows and scripts, including Ballers, Room 104 and Game of Thrones. [115] May–July 2017: The Equifax breach. [116] September 2017: Deloitte breach. [117] December: Mecklenburg County, North Carolina computer systems were hacked. They did not pay the ransom. [118]
SiegedSec, short for Sieged Security and commonly self-described as the "Gay Furry Hackers", [1] [2] was a black-hat criminal hacktivist group, [3] [4] [2] that was formed in early 2022, that committed a number of high profile cyber attacks, including attacks on NATO, [3] [4] [5] Idaho National Laboratory, [1] [2] and Real America's Voice.
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.
In February 2024, a malicious backdoor was introduced to the Linux build of the xz utility within the liblzma library in versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 by an account using the name "Jia Tan".
Game Room was a video game compilation developed by Krome Studios and published by Microsoft Studios for the Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and Windows Phone 7.Launched on March 24, 2010, Game Room let players download classic video games and compete against each other for high scores. [1]