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Kristoffer Wilhelm von Hassel (born 2008) is an American boy known for being the world's youngest known hacker [1] and notable for being the youngest "security researcher" listed on Microsoft's Security Techcenter as having exposed a security vulnerability. [2]
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.
The movie WarGames introduces the wider public to the phenomenon of hacking and creates a degree of mass paranoia about hackers and their supposed abilities to bring the world to a screeching halt by launching nuclear ICBMs. [19] The U.S. House of Representatives begins hearings on computer security hacking. [20]
[4] [5] A CIA internal audit identified 91 malware tools out of more than 500 tools in use in 2016 being compromised by the release. [6] The tools were developed by the Operations Support Branch of the CIA. [7] The Vault 7 release led the CIA to redefine WikiLeaks as a "non-state hostile intelligence service."
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Here is a list of notable hackers who are known for their ...
Joshua Adam Schulte (born September 25, 1988) is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who was convicted of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks published the documents as Vault 7 , which The New York Times called "the largest loss of classified documents in the agency's history and a huge embarrassment for C.I.A ...
The site won the ArsDigita Prize, given to young people who create "useful, educational, and collaborative" noncommercial websites and led to early recognition of Swartz's nascent talent in coding. [ 22 ] [ 32 ] [ 33 ] At age 14, he became a member of the working group that authored the RSS 1.0 web syndication specification . [ 34 ]
In January 2019, DDoSecrets published hundreds of gigabytes of hacked Russian documents and emails from pro-Kremlin journalists, oligarchs, and militias. [5] The New York Times called the release "a symbolic counterstrike against Russia's dissemination of hacked emails to influence the American presidential election in 2016", though DDoSecrets founder Emma Best stated it was not a retaliatory ...