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The first botnet hijacker aka the Zombie King

The first botnet hijacker aka the Zombie King

Jeanson Ancheta didn’t have the usual path that many hackers had in the old days but he carved his path through the use of his botnet army. This is the story of the first person to plead guilty to federal charges of hijacking computers for profit.

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Jonathan James – The teenager who hacked NASA for fun

Jonathan James – The teenager who hacked NASA for fun

Jonathan James, a prodigious young hacker known by the alias ‘c0mrade.’ Hacking since age 6, he escalated from modifying computer games to infiltrating NASA’s systems at just 15. James, the first juvenile federally sentenced for computer hacking, targeted AT&T and NASA, gaining access to critical International Space Station elements.

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