VIRUS WRITERS & MAD HACKERS

VIRUS WRITERS & MAD HACKERS

You are being sent out on a "treasure hunt" to find out about some infamous hackers, viruses and Internet worms, as well as some jargon from the hacking underground. You will put all the information you find – following the rules I list below—in a bunch of different blog entries that you will make. Besides the information you type in, I will also need for EACH person or thing you write about at least ONE link back to the source you used to get your information

A)who these people are, and what they did (pick any two and describe both of them using at least three complete sentences; YOUR OWN WORDS ONLY):
Jonathan James
Chen Ing-hau
Vladimir Levin
Adrian Lamo
Ehud Tenebaum
Johan Helsingius
Kevin Mitnick
Richard Pryce
Eric Steven Raymond
Kevin Poulsen
Jerome Heckenkamp
Linus Torvalds
Robert Tappan Morris
Dennis Moran
Richard Stallman
John Draper
Dmitry Sklyarov
Ian Murphy
Gary McKinnon
Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson
Larry Page & Sergei Brin
David L. Smith
Tsutomu Shimomura
Mark Abene

B) what these (computer hacking) terms mean (pick any two, describe each one using at least two complete sentences; YOUR OWN WORDS ONLY):
black hat
daisy chaining
Cult of the Dead Cow
white hat
phone phreak

exploit
wetware

zombie
treeware

DoS attack
computer worm

Script kiddie
computer virus

rootkit
kluge

DEFCON
Logic bomb


C) the particulars of these viruses/worms à who created them, how they worked, what kind of damage they did, when they were first unleashed on an unsuspecting world. (pick ONE use two complete sentences; YOUR OWN WORDS ONLY):
Code Red
Blaster worm
IloveYou virus
LoveBug virus
Chernobyl virus
Melissa virus

Cheers

Mr. L