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Scattered Spider, also referred to as UNC3944 among other names, [1] is a hacking group mostly made up of individuals aged 19 to 22 as of September 2023. The group, whose name was first tagged by cybersecurity researchers, gained notoriety for hacking Caesars Entertainment and MGM Resorts International, two of the largest casino and gambling companies in the United States.
AOHell was the first of what would become thousands of programs designed for hackers created for use with AOL. In 1994, seventeen year old hacker Koceilah Rekouche, from Pittsburgh, PA, known online as "Da Chronic", [1] [2] used Visual Basic to create a toolkit that provided: a new DLL for the AOL client, a credit card number generator, email bomber, IM bomber, Punter, and a basic set of ...
ShinyHunters is a Hacker Group that is said to be responsible for numerous data breaches in 2020 and 2021. TeaMp0isoN is a group of black-hat computer hackers established in mid-2009. Telecomix, a hacktivist group mainly known for circumventing internet censorship during multiple political events. TeslaTeam is a group of black-hat computer ...
Bulletin board system. A bulletin board system ( BBS ), also called a computer bulletin board service ( CBBS ), [ 1] was a computer server running software that allowed users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, the user could perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and ...
DEF CON, the world’s largest hacker conference, is trying to put its legions of experts to work by creating a volunteer army to help protect America’s vulnerable water systems and schools.
Anonymous (hacker group) Anonymous. An emblem that is commonly associated with Anonymous. The "man without a head" represents anonymity and leaderless organization. [ 1] Individuals appearing in public as Anonymous, wearing Guy Fawkes masks. Formation.
For days, hundreds of thousands of AOL users find their mailboxes flooded with multi-megabyte email bombs and their chat rooms disrupted with spam messages. December 27: After experiencing an IP spoofing attack by Kevin Mitnick , computer security expert Tsutomu Shimomura started to receive prank calls that popularized the phrase " My kung fu ...
Leet originated within bulletin board systems (BBS) in the 1980s, [1] [2] where having "elite" status on a BBS allowed a user access to file folders, games, and special chat rooms. The Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective has been credited with the original coining of the term, in their text-files of that era. [3]