Reading Time: 7 Minutes Rafael Nunez is a hacker and computer security specialist born in 1979 in Puerto Ordaz, a city in Bolivar state, Venezuela. He is also known by the nickname "RaFa". At age 21, in 2001, he mocked one of the Pentagon's servers...
Operation Troy – How researchers linked the cyberattacks
Reading Time: 7 Minutes South Korea was the victim of an enormous cyberattack on March 20, 2013. The attack was meant to cause damage and affected multiple organizations like South Korean TV networks and financial institutions by...
Operation Aurora: When China hacked Google
Reading Time: 9 Minutes It'd been almost 11 years since Google publicly disclosed in a blog, that they’d been the victim of a sophisticated cyber-attack that targeted over 20 other companies and organizations, including Google,...
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.
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.
Andrian Lamo – The ‘homeless’ Hacker
Join our Patreon Channel and Gain access to 70+ Exclusive Walkthrough Videos.Reading Time: 6 MinutesAdrian Lamo was a hacker who found innovative ways to challenge companies to rethink their security measures. From infiltrating prestigious corporations...
Jeff Moss, aka Dark Tangent, the person who founded DEF CON and Black Hat
Premium ContentSubscribe to Patreon to watch this episode.Reading Time: 5 MinutesJeff Moss was born in California, United States in January 1975. He is a hacker, computer, and Internet security expert who founded the Black Hat and DEF CON security...
Xbox Underground
In this article, we explore the story of David Pokora, who went from being an avid Xbox gamer to a notorious hacker and leader of Xbox-Underground.
When two young hackers played war games with Pentagon
In this story, two young hackers, Mathew Bevan and Richard Pryce, managed to penetrate the Pentagon’s supposedly secure defense network from the comfort of their bedrooms in the 1990s.