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Hackers you should know!

Anonymous

Anonymous is a group of 
hackers that came about in 
2008 and grew famous for its 
hacktivism incidents. It has no 
leader or controlling party and 
relies on the collective power 
of its individual participants 
acting in such a way that the 
net effect benefits the group.
When the whistle-blowing 
web site, WikiLeaks came 
under fire, Anonymous 
extended its support to 
WikiLeaks and launched DDoS attacks against Amazon, PayPal, Mas-terCard, Visa and the Swiss bank PostFinance, in retaliation to perceived 
anti-WikiLeaks behaviour. Anonymous called it Operation Avenge Assange. 
On April 2, 2011 Anonymous launched an attack named #opsony on the media giant Sony, in retaliation to the legal action it took against George 
Hotz (or GeoHot), the coder behind a popular tool that allows homebrew 
software to run on the PlayStation 3. Anonymous claimed the attack to 
be a success after it took down the PlayStation Network and other related 
PlayStation web sites. 
The group also hacked the Tunisian government web site to support 
Arab Spring and Department of Justice-managed web sites to retaliate 
against the shutdown of MegaUpload. Anonymous has been in the news 
for its hacktivism since the past two years. 

Jonathan James (c0mrade) 

He was sent to prison for hacking at the age of 16, becoming the first juve-nile to be sent to prison for hacking. He targeted high-profile organisations 
such as the America’s Department of Defence. He created a backdoor that 
enabled him to view sensitive emails and capture employee usernames 
and passwords. He also cracked into NASA computers, stealing software 
worth approximately $1.7 million. He said that he downloaded the code to 
supplement his studies in C programming but the code wasn’t well written 

and definitely not worth the $1.7 million. He committed suicide in 2008.

Kevin Metnick

When he was just 12, he used social engineering to bypass the punchcard 
system used in the Los Angeles bus system. Later he used social engi-neering as his primary method of 
obtaining information, including 
user names and passwords and 
modem phone numbers. He 
was convicted for hacking into 
multiple systems of the Digital 
Equipment Corporation to view 
Virtual Memory System (VMS) 
code which cost it $160,000. At 
the time of his arrest, he was the 
most-wanted computer criminal 
in the United States. Kevin also 
admitted to stealing software from 
Motorola, Novell, Fujitsu, Sun 
Microsystems and other compnies, in addition to altering the 
computer systems of the Univer-sity of Southern California. 
After serving his sentence, 
he decided to mend his ways. 
He started Mitnick Security 
Consulting and is now turning 
a profit as a white hat.

Stephen Wozniak (Woz)

A white-hat hacker, he was also 
called the other Steve of Apple. 
Along with Steve Jobs he co-founded Apple Computers. He 
started hacking by making blue 
boxes – devices that bypass telephone-switching mechanisms to make free 
long-distance calls. He and Jobs researched frequencies, then built and sold 
blue boxes to their classmates in college. He came up with the preliminary 
Mac, and Jobs had the bright idea of selling the computer as a fully assem-bled PC board; thus creating one of the most important breakthroughs in 
computing technology. He no longer works for Apple and devotes his time 
and money to philanthropy.

Ankit Fadia

India’s very own ethical hacker who shot to fame after authoring The 
Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hackingat the age of 15. He’s an independent 
computer security consultant and also advises the government on mat-ters of cyber security. Faida has also led several investigations pertaining 
to national security and cyber terrorism. He’s currently pursuing his 

Bachelors in Computer Science with specialisation in Information Secu-rity at Stanford University, USA.

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