THE EX-HACKER

VOCABULARY
Hacker
a person who secretly gets access to a computer system
in order to get information, cause damage, etc.
also: a person who plays a sport badly

Synonyms: cracker, cyberpunk

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Fraud
the crime of using dishonest methods to take something
valuable from another person

Synonyms: fiddle [chiefly British], flimflam, gyp, scam

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Raid
an occurrence in which police suddenly enter a place in a
forceful way to find criminals, illegal drugs, etc.
also: an act of going into a place (such as a bank) in
order to steal something

Synonyms: invade
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Count
each separate charge in a criminal action
also: (something)to add together to find the total number
(on someone) to expect someone to help you
(on something )to expect something to happen
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Phishing
a scam by which an e-mail user is deceived into
revealing personal or confidential information which the
scammer can use illegaly
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Bogus
not real or genuine

Synonyms: imitation, fake, false, faux, simulated,

substitute, synthetic
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Crook
 a dishonest person, a criminal

Synonyms: criminal, culprit, felon, lawbreaker,

malefactor, miscreant, offender
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Leaking
to give secret information to someone so that it becomes
known to the public
also: to let something (such as a liquid or gas) in or out
through a hole in a surface

Synonyms: circulate, spread

SUMMARY
Multinational corporations
Credit cards
Sasser
Phishing scam
Hotmail
UK Department of trade
MyDoom
MULTINATIONAL
CORPORATIONS
Kevin Mitnick was sentenced on
46-month jail where he was held
for fraud relating to breaking into
the systems of several
multinational corporations.
He was released on condition that
he did not have any contact with a
computer.
CREDIT CARDS
In March 2000, teenager stole
information from more than 26 000
credit card account across Britain, US,
Japan, Canada and Thailand.
Raphael Gray, 18, published the details
on the Internet.
British police raided his home and
arrested him and his friend. They were
charged with 10 counts of downloading
unauthorized informations.
SASSER
Virus Sasser was made by an 18 year old
Sven Jaschan, it attacked Windows NT,
2000 and XP.
In May 2004 an Internet worm knocked
out post office computers in Taiwan and
Germany, three thousand train
passengers in Australian after
communications between drivers and
signal boxes were cut.
PHISHING SCAM
In 2004 Trojan horse circulated via e-mail.
Program substituted a bogus website address for
any bank details.
When customer tried to go to the website of their
bank, they were taken to the false site.
Crooks used account details to empty victims
accounts.
HOTMAIL
A group called Hackers Unite posted
details of how to access any
Microsoft’s Hotmail account. Which
exposed correspondence of more than
40 000 000 users.
The service was shut down for five
hours.
UK DEPARTMENT OF TRADE
In 1996, hackers ran up a In 2000, a DTI
£1 000 000 phone bill for computer was
Scotland Yard. programmed to reroute
e-mail.
There was a leak of few
case informations.
MYDOOM.O
In 2004, there was a virus called MyDoom.O, once
opened it would send email to every address in the
victim’s address book.
Search engines received thousands of emails
generated by the virus which forced them to slow
down and even to stop working.