He received his first computer at age 6 and claimed the most exciting moment of his life was when he first accessed the internet.Īt the tender age of 9, he was utilizing the app AOHell to manipulate legitimate AOL users into giving up their account information and would soon talk his way into a band of hackers who helped hone his nascent skills.
like Michael Calce (better known to many as MafiaBoy), the perpetrator behind the highly publicized denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on a number of leading e-commerce websites resulting in total damages estimated at 1.7 billion Canadian dollars.Ĭalce wasn't a precocious child - he was a genuine prodigy. If good things can come in small packages, then so too can terrible things. In this installment of our series, we'll consider five historic hacks of the new millennium. Hackers may have come of age in the 90s, but it was during the following decade that they really hit their stride in both notoriety and level of damage done. It was also the decade where cyberattacks came out of the shadows and onto the front pages of newspapers. The 1990s saw the fall of Communism, the rise of alternate media and the widespread adoption and integration of the World Wide Web.
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