Anthony Felice Hackers and Viruses

David L. Smith - Wrote the most costly virus in history which created $80,000,000 in damages. Intel, Microsoft, and Lucent Technologies had to shut down email gateways. He had to serve a 20 month sentence and pay a $5,000 dollar fine, he now works with the FBI to stop other viruses and their writers.
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John Draper - Found a way to hack the phone company switchboards by using a captain crunch whistle to emit a 2600 hertz tone. He devised a "blue box" that was able to emulate other sounds used by the phone companies. In 1968 he ran a radio station from his VW van.
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Exploit - the French word meaning achievement. It is a piece of software, a chunk of data, or sequence of commands that take advantage of a vulnerability in order to cause unintended or unanticipated behavior in an electronic device.
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Dos Attack - This is a denial-of-service attack or distributed denial-of-service attack. It is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. Using the internet a client machine and handler machines.
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Blaster Worm - The worm was programmed to start a SYN flood against port 80 of windowsupdate.com creating DDos against the site. The worm spread by exploiting a buffer overflow in the DCOM RCP service. They had to release a patch shortly after
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