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Junaid Hussain (c. 1994 – 25 August 2015) was a British black hat hacker and propagandist under the nom de guerre of Abu Hussain al-Britani who supported the Islamic State (IS). [1] Hussain, who was raised in Birmingham in a family originally from Pakistan, was jailed in 2012 for hacking Tony Blair's accounts and posting his personal ...
The black hat will break into any system or network to uncover sensitive information for personal gain, whereas the white hat does so at the request of their employer or with explicit permission to determine how secure it is against hackers. The grey hat typically possesses the white hat's skills and intentions and the black hat's disregard for ...
Barnaby Michael Douglas Jack (22 November 1977 – 25 July 2013) was a New Zealand hacker, programmer and computer security expert. [1] He was known for his presentation at the Black Hat computer security conference in 2010, during which he exploited two ATMs and made them dispense fake paper currency on the stage. [2]
In 1993 he created the first DEF CON hacker convention, based around a party for members of a Fido hacking network in Canada. [3] It slowly grew, and by 1999 was attracting major attention. In 1997 he created Black Hat Briefings computer security conference that brings together a variety of people interested in information security .
Kevin Lee Poulsen (born November 30, 1965) is an American convicted fraudster, former black-hat hacker and a contributing editor at The Daily Beast. Biography [ edit ]
Hemsworth portrays a convicted hacker offered clemency for helping track down a dangerous cybercriminal. The title refers to the cybersecurity term "black hat," meaning a hacker with malicious intent. The film premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on January 8, 2015, and was released in theaters on January 16, by Universal Pictures.
In 2005, Case founded a hacker collective called Digital Gangster, which was at its core an internet forum. Some of its members reportedly claimed responsibility for many high-profile hacks of the 2000s and 2010s, including the Paris Hilton T-Mobile breach in 2005, [ 14 ] the Miley Cyrus hacked email scandal of 2008, [ 15 ] the Twitter hack of ...
Ryan Ackroyd, [1] a.k.a. Kayla [2] [3] and also lolspoon, is a former black hat hacker who was one of the six core members of the computer hacking group "LulzSec" [4] [5] during its 50-day spree of attacks from 6 May 2011 until 26 June 2011. [6]