Posts Tagged ‘hacker’

1999 – Microsoft’s newest programming language at the time – C# (pronounced “C-Sharp”) was hacked on this day. The perpetrator was a seventeen year old female hacker from Belgium, calling herself “Gigabyte”.

2002 – Gigabyte posts the source code to the virus on her website. Kim Vanvaeck would be arrested in 2004 for writing the malicious code. The reason why she did it?

I want to let people (and especially guys) know there ARE girls out there who like computers and for more than games. I think that’s quite important … for all girls out there who know something about computers but are surrounded by guys who think they’re all stupid..

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• IBM releases Object REXX
• Macbook Pro with Multitouch trackpad

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2000 – 10:15 AM, Mafiaboy – a 16 year old hacker from Canada – targets 7 sites with a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS). Amazon, Buy.com, CNN, eBay, E*Trade, MSN and ZDNet are all affected. Mafiaboy would be sentenced to eight months in a youth detention center for this DDoS.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• 1983 – Atari Sues Coleco
• Gary Kasparov and Deep Junior 7 end in a tie
• the Cell Processor

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1990 – The Chicago Task raids the home of Craig Neidorf – A.K.A. Knight Lightning. The group, along with Bellsouth, are looking for information on an article published in the hacker rag “PHRACK – Control Office Administration of Enhanced 911 Service”. The article was written by “the Eavesdropper” and contained information that was obtained by documents stolen from Bellsouth.

The group doesn’t have a warrant, but when they show up the next day with one, Neidorf’s hard drive comes up missing. Craig will then be arrested for tampering.

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Other Technology History Facts

• Stac Electronics sues Microsoft for Patent infringement
• TRS 80 Model 12 is introduced
• NewsCorp and MySpace are sued because 4 girls are sexually assulted

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2008 -Sarah Palin succumbed to a hacker in a different way – through her Yahoo email. The infiltrator gained access by using common information to reset the password. David Kernell then posted her email and new password on 4chan.org under the alias “Rubico”.

It showed that by using common information to set up an account, it could also turn into a “back door” for someone who would know that information.

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Other items in the Day in Tech History:

• Yahoo purchases Zimbra
• Motorola enters into Mac Clone market
• AT&T phones shut down NYC

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- Just got done watching MadMen TV Premier. WOW.

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- SEC and Social Media (Southeastern conference)

• No phones, no accounts, descriptions, or dissemination.

*NOTE* After this was recorded, the SEC updated their guidelines on social media at games.

- MySpace – iLike – Facebook

• MySpace purchases iLike
• Will Facebook ban the app?
• Is MySpace looking to get out of Social Networking in a way?

- TomTom for iPhone

• $99? I can buy the unit for $20 more…

- 2 Products – HD Webcam, 3D camera

• Microsoft HD Camera – 79.99
• FinePix W1 REAL 3D – $699
• $499 for the FinePix REAL 3D V1, a larger viewer frame with an eight-inch screen. You cant view your images in 3-D on your Mac, PC or television screen and if you want 3D prints of your photos, they have to be done at Fujifilm’s Japan headquarters, for about $10 per print.

- Albert Gonzalez

• Last year – 40 million CC w/ Russia
• Hacked into card payment processor Heartland Payment Systems
• TJX, 7-11, Dave & Busters,
• Soupnazi – known hacker
• Been hacking into Fortune 500 companies for the last 5 years.

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This week in tech history in 1998, Apple announced it would discontinue the Newton OS and handheld. Steve Jobs said in a press conference that Apple would be focusing on Macintosh computers.

Other interesting notes in Tech History this week – There are 8 days of tech history – Stage 6 shuts down, Netscape goes Open Source, Netscape is discontinued. Intel introduces the PIII processor and “Gigabyte” – a female Belgium hacker is arrested. She hacked to show the public that girls can be hackers, too.

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Tonights show was another great one! We had a lot of friends show up and a bunch of new ones! Brokenshovel was getting a new motherboard, so we talked about the i7 that just came out. We also talked about Apple’s cores and AMD’s struggles.

Someone came on the show concerned they were hacked. We talked about what an IP address does and what the person should do to be more secure.

Finally, in hour #2 we found out that Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo! has decided to step down. We talked about who the successor should be. Larry Ellison from Oracle was suggested. I think the best person for the role is Martin Sargent. He has a lot of contacts and can make Yugo a young company again.

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Halloween is fast approaching. The office has moved around. Dan Tynan and Technology and Politics. Parts for Dell D600 – Win iTunes GC.

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Fakes. Throughout time we’ve had to deal with those who want to pass something off as an original. Sometimes we are not fooled. Other times we go years thinking that it’s the real thing until some new technology tells us different.
In the last week I’ve seen many fake photos of different items – most notably the Large GPS picture and Windows 7 screenshots. There is even a video out there that supposedly displays Windows 7 functionality. While impressive, it makes me wonder if someone is trying to pass these off to make a quick buck?
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Some of the items we talk about on the show this week:
Albert Einstein Passes
Pocket PC Launched
Jennicam started
Osbourne Executive
Rolex Hacker
Terraserver.com

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