The Ten Most Famous Hackers of the World

A list of ten names of the most famous hackers of the world has been produced by the British newspaper The Telegraph. Some have collapsed thousands of servers, others have made the mythical virus that infected millions of folders users around the globe.
1 - The list is headed by the most famous hacker of his generation, Kevin Mitnick, who after serving five years in prison advises software companies in the security sector.
The U.S. Justice Department described Mitnick as the "most wanted criminal in U.S. history and although it seems an exaggeration on his resume is extensive vandalism on the Internet.
Mitnick attempted against computer systems of companies like Nokia, Fujitsu and Motorola. He was arrested in 1995 after his confession and agreed to meet imprisonment for five years.
2 - The second of these cybercriminals with a reputation for altruistic Kevin Poulson, who gained fame after blocking the phone lines of the radio station Kiss-FM in Los Angeles and win the radio contest prize was a Porsche.
Researchers put the trail of Poulson, after he hacked into an FBI database. They could not catch him and the TV appears as a fugitive from unsolved mysteries. Now is dedicated to journalism.
3 - Adrian Lamo, the hacker known as homeless, operated out of bars, parlors and Internet cafes. His greatest heroism was introduced into the New York Times intranet and add your name to a list of experts of the newspaper.
Like a recurring profession, Lamos has finished working as a journalist.
4 - Stephen Wozniak, also an American, also a fifties that during his college years was devoted to hacking telephone lines that allowed it to your friends to call long distance without paying.
Hence his prestige and fame in the world of hackers. Apple ended up founding the company with Steve Jobs.
5 - Loyd Blankenship, aka The Mentor, a member of the Legion of Doom hacker group, which was facing Masters of Deception. He is the author of the manifesto hacker-The conscience of a hacker, who wrote after being arrested in 1986, and the code for the game of Cyberpunk role. Now is dedicated to game programming.
6 - Michael Chock sits in sixth place in the list and was dedicated to knock out the buying and selling websites world's largest.
That's what I did in 2000 with eBay, Amazon and Yahoo who suffered their attacks. He was caught and sentenced to limited use of Internet.
7 - Robert Tappan Morris created a computer virus in November 1988 that crippled approximately 6,000 computers in the enterprise UNIX and caused damage worth millions of dollars. He was one of the first virus of this type.
But after serving three years of conditional llibertad and hundreds of hours to let the world community marginal to pursue university education.
8 - The eighth in the list is an unidentified group known by the name of Masters of Deception. They live in New York and specialized in hacking the phone system in the 80 United States.
The group is now disbanded after several of its members were arrested and had to serve sentences in jail.
9 - The penultimate position is for David L. Smith, the much known by the Melissa virus, its evil creation. It was the first virus designed to infectaro emails.
Smith was arrested and served a sentence for causing damage worth $ 80 million.
10 - Close the list, Sven Jaschan, which in 2004 while still a teenager created the Sasser virus, which affects directly to computers running Windows. Betrayed their neighbors to get the reward from Microsoft.
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