While widely used, the term hacker is not always applied as it should be. In the hacking community in particular, there can be stark divisions between hackers -- people immensely skilled at navigating computer systems and diagnosing security flaws -- and crackers -- those who use their hacking knowledge for malicious gain. This same dichotomy is sometimes represented by the terms white hat and black hat. A white hat hacker, for example, may be someone hired by a company to break into its computer network in order to find vulnerabilities. A black hat hacker is someone on the outside who would break into a system in order to cause damage or for financial gain. So without wasting your time here is top ten computer hacks of all time particularly recent ..
1.THE HACK OF Stuxnet
The Most recent Biggest Computer hack was The Stuxnet Hack of 2010.The malicious software was a Microsoft Windows worm that was specifically designed to infect Siemens industrial controllers. And The program's target was uranium enrichment facilities in Iran. The worm – which has all but officially been confirmed was created by the United States and Israel It disrupted the operations of Siemens centrifuges in nuclear power plants, making them spin at uneven speeds and hide that from their operators.
2.THE HACK OF Conficker
One of the largest and most tenacious worms of all time was discovered in 2008 and is still infecting more than a million computers a year as of this writing. Conficker is an incredibly smart piece of software that continually updates itself by making connections to an ever-growing system of websites.
3.Operation Getting Rich
Between 2005 and 2007, Gonzalez and his crew used SQL injections to steal a staggering 170 million ATM and credit card numbers from major retailers like TJ Maxx, DSW and Dave & Buster’s. The numbers were then sold at auction, netting Gonzalez a tremendous profit. Alberto Gonzalez just wanted to get away with a huge amount of money.
4.PlayStation Network got Hacked
It’s not just computers that are vulnerable to malicious hacks. As more and more of your devices go online, security holes open up. That’s what Sony learned in 2011, when an incursion to their PlayStation Network service resulted in the loss of data from approximately 77 million user accounts, including personally identifiable information. The company was forced to take their entire network down for 20 days while they dealt with the fallout, at a cost of $171 million. It was one of the largest assaults on an entertainment network ever seen.
5.THE Melissa Virus
The fastest-spreading virus of its day, Melissa was the cyber attack that really made people start taking electronic warfare seriously. Coded by a bored New Jersey programmer named David L. Smith, the software was deceptively simple – disguised as a Microsoft Word document, it would spread through email, automatically sending itself to the first 50 names in an infected computer’s address book. The document was first uploaded to the alt.sex newsgroup in 1999 and from there it exploded, being sent out so rapidly that it forced infected companies like Microsoft and Intel to shut down outgoing mail until they got it under control
6.Department Of Defense Hack
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As viewers of 80s classic War Games can tell you, the Department of Defense is the Holy Grail for wanna-be hackers. One of the most secure networks in the world, the U.S. military’s computer system was compromised by a humble teenager in 1999, sending security experts into a tailspin. Florida high school student Jonathan James installed backdoor software into the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, a DoD division, and intercepted numerous classified emails, including life support code for the International Space Station. James was caught in 2000 and sentenced to six months house arrest, as he was still a juvenile. He committed suicide some years later.
7.Operation Shady RAT
One of the most enticing fruits for a cyber attacker is remote access tools – software that allows computers to be taken over from anywhere in the world. Placing remote access programs on a target computer gives unprecedented access, so it’s no surprise that the Chinese government has allegedly been using them since 2006 in a concerted wave of attacks dubbed Operation Shady RAT. Starting in 2006, an unknown actor targeted over 70 public and private organizations in 14 countries, stealing a vast wealth of intellectual property. Victims included the International Olympic Committee and the World Anti-Doping Agency, which pointed the finger at China in advance of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
8.Chinese Compromise U.S. Weapons System
A confidential report prepared for the Pentagon and just released indicates that Chinese cyber criminals breached design files for over two dozen critical weapons systems, including critical missile defense programs.
9.Spamhaus DDOS
Most Internet attacks just affect users of one particular site or service. This one, however, almost broke the whole thing. Spamhaus is one of the world’s largest anti-spam services, blocking huge amounts of unsolicited email from all over the world. When Cyberbunker, an Amsterdam-based hosting provider, found their emails blacklisted, they struck back with one of the largest distributed denial of service attacks the Internet has ever seen. The traffic reached an astounding 300 GB per second, causing a ripple effect that lagged connections all over Europe.
10.Comodo Hack
The process of using the Internet seems simple, but in reality your web page goes through a number of stops before it reaches your screen. One of the intermediary steps is the security certificate, a bit of code that confirms that the site you’re looking at is what it claims to be. One company that provides those certificates is Comodo, and in 2011 an Iranian hacker fraudulently accessed their system and generated a number of certificates for major sites like Google and Yahoo – certificates that he could use to make any computer anywhere in the world think that they were on those sites, and allow him to eavesdrop on secure e-mail sent from any of their services. The hacker took responsibility for similar attacks on a number of other certificate registrars the same year.
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