Jonathan James committed a bunch of hacks into Bellshouth and the Miami school system. What warned the feds about him was his hacks into the Defense threat reduction agency. He later admitted to authorities later that he created a back door into a computer server in Dulles Virginia.
Adrian Lamo is a former grey hat hacker. His bets know hacks were of the New York times and Microsoft. Also he is known for trying to identify computer flaws in fortune 500 company's.
An exploit is a chunk of data or piece of software designed to take advantage of a bug or glitch and cause unanticipated behavior to occur. Frequently includes gaining control of computer system.
Zombie computer is a computer attached to the internet that is controlled by a hacker. Zombies have been extensively used to send email spam.
The Melissa virus is a mass-mailing macro virus. First found on March 26, 1999, Melissa shut down Internet mail systems that got clogged with infected e-mails propagating from the worm. Melissa was not originally designed for harm, but it overflowed servers and caused unplanned problems.Melissa was first distributed in the Usenet discussion group alt.sex. The virus was inside a file called "List.DOC", which contained passwords that allow access into 80 pornographic websites. The worm's original form was sent via e-mail to many people.
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