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Mathew Bevan (born 10 June 1974) is a British hacker from Cardiff, Wales.In 1996 he was arrested for hacking into secure U.S. Government networks under the handle Kuji.At the age of 21, he hacked into the files of the Griffiss Air Force Base Research Laboratory in New York.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 January 2025. American hacker (1963–2023) Kevin Mitnick Mitnick in 2010 Born Kevin David Mitnick (1963-08-06) August 6, 1963 Los Angeles, California, U.S. Died July 16, 2023 (2023-07-16) (aged 59) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. Other names The Condor, The Darkside Hacker Occupations Information ...
Store), co-founding the startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, a number of essays and books, and the media webpage Hacker News. He is the author of the computer programming books On Lisp, [4] ANSI Common Lisp, [5] and Hackers & Painters. [6] Technology journalist Steven Levy has described Graham as a "hacker philosopher". [7]
Adrián Alfonso Lamo Atwood [2] (February 20, 1981 – March 14, 2018) was an American threat analyst [3] [4] and hacker. [5] Lamo first gained media attention for breaking into several high-profile computer networks, including those of The New York Times, Yahoo!, and Microsoft, culminating in his 2003 arrest.
John Thomas Draper (born March 11, 1943), also known as Captain Crunch, Crunch, or Crunchman (after the Cap'n Crunch breakfast cereal mascot and the free toy plastic Cap'n Crunch bo'sun whistle used to hack phone calls), is an American computer programmer and former phone phreak.
Cris Thomas (also known as Space Rogue) is an American cybersecurity researcher, white hat hacker, and award winning [1] [2] best selling [3] author. A founding member and researcher at the high-profile hacker security think tank L0pht Heavy Industries, Thomas was one of seven L0pht members who testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs (1998) on the topic of government ...
The site was created by Paul Graham in February 2007. [2] Initially called Startup News or occasionally News.YC., it became known by its current name on August 14, 2007. [3] It developed as a project of Graham's company Y Combinator, functioning as a real-world application of the Arc programming language which Graham co-developed. [4]
George Francis Hotz (born October 2, 1989), alias geohot, is an American security hacker, entrepreneur, [1] and software engineer.He is known for developing iOS jailbreaks, [2] [3] reverse engineering the PlayStation 3, and for the subsequent lawsuit brought against him by Sony.