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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
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]
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 ...
TeslaTeam is a group of black-hat computer hackers from Serbia established in 2010. TESO was a hacker group originating in Austria that was active primarily from 1998 to 2004. The Unknowns is a group of white-hat hackers that exploited many high-profiled websites and became very active in 2012 when the group was founded and disbanded.
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 .
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 ...
Jonathan Joseph James (December 12, 1983 – May 18, 2008) was an American hacker (a gray hat ethical hacker) who was the first juvenile incarcerated for cybercrime in the United States. [1] The South Florida native was 15 years old at the time of the first offense and 16 years old on the date of his sentencing.
Bryce Case Jr. (born August 23, 1982), otherwise known as YTCracker (pronounced "whitey cracker"), is an American rapper from La Mirada, California. His stage name derives from having formerly been a black hat hacker.