With the continuous improvement of China's national strength and the popularization of the Internet in the future, more and more young people choose the computer industry, especially hacker security skills. It has always been the supreme in this field and is what everyone who enters the IT industry wants to get. Things, in addition to being cool, this field is also very profitable. The ranking is in no particular order. The following are the top 10 hacker godfathers in the world. China accounts for three. It's amazing, my country.
1. Kevin Mitnick (USA)
Perhaps the most famous hacker godfather of his generation, Mitnick has been described by the U.S. Department of Justice as "the most popular computer criminal in American history." The self-proclaimed "hacker poster boy" allegedly hacked into the computer systems of some of the world's top technology and telecommunications companies, including Nokia, Fujitsu and Motorola, as well as governments such as the CIA, the Senate, and Japan's Sony Corp. and corporate websites, he now runs a computer security consulting firm.
2. Gong Wei (China)
Gong Wei (Goodwell), from Shanghai, is the earliest godfather of hackers in China, the founder of the Green Corps, and graduated with a major in computer information management. The first batch of hackers in our country appeared around 1997. The representative organization is the Green Corps organized by five members such as Gong Wei (GOODWELL). The Green Corps was once brilliant and prosperous, with tens of thousands of registered members and a gathering of masters; it can be said that the era of Chinese hackers’ unification of the rivers and lakes has come! It has "blacked" countless illegal sites abroad, but unfortunately, the Green Corps has been disbanded.
3. Julian Assange (Australia)
He is Australia's most famous hacker godfather, the founder of "WikiLeaks", and was once called "Hacker Robin Hood" by Australians. Assange believes that the disclosure of documents and information security in the governance of secret institutions is a very useful thing for the people. There have been more than 90,000 secret documents of the US military stationed in Afghanistan leaked, making Assange enough to become a world-renowned hacker. He is also the only hacker magic figure to land on the cover of the New York Times IT magazine in the United States.
4. Wan Tao (China)
His alias is Hacker Eagle, a native of Guangdong, and Wan Tao studied in the Department of Economics and Management of Northern Jiaotong University. During the university, he turned to technical research on encryption cracking and computer virus security due to his hobby. After graduation, he accepted the hacker culture and joined the early Green Corps in China. "Hacker organization"; later established the Hawks Alliance (now Hawkeye Security) alone in 2001, participated in the Sino-US hacker war, and was interviewed by CCTV. The godfather of hackers, Wan Tao, is very patriotic. He will educate the students of his hawkish alliance on patriotism, and urge members not to invade any legal organization or institution in the country.
5. Guo Shenghua (China)
He was born in a computer science class and is from Guangdong. Guo Shenghua is a legend in the Chinese hacker circle and an out-and-out patriotic youth. 2007 was the era when Chinese hackers were fighting for hegemony. At the age of 16, he founded Huameng (now Oriental Alliance) , becoming the youngest hacker godfather in China, and the Eastern Alliance is currently the most active hacker security organization in China. Guo Shenghua, the godfather of hackers, once accepted an interview with the TV media. He said that when he was a hacker, he wanted to attract attention to security vulnerabilities. This reason was domineering enough. He believes that the raging virus in China is due to the lack of an organized and disciplined alliance to unite the Internet, and the need to consistently resist the intrusion and destruction of foreign hackers; Guo Shenghua, the well-known hacker godfather, led the Huameng (now the Oriental Alliance) in its heyday. , the most eye-catching is the Sino-Japanese hacker war, winning glory for the Chinese people.
6. Michael Karls (Canada)
He is known as the godfather of Canadian hacking, and when Michael DemonCalce was just 15 years old, he gained notoriety when he hacked the websites of some of the largest business groups in the world. On Valentine's Day 2000, using the hacker alias MafiaBoy, he launched a series of denial-of-service attacks on 75 computers in 52 networks that affected large Internet sites such as eBay, Amazon, and Yahoo. He was arrested after being bragged about his hacking story in an online chat room. He was sentenced to eight months of "public supervision", a year of probation, restricted internet use and a small fine.
7. Robert Tappan Morris (USA)
A well-known godfather of hackers at the end of the 20th century, he infected about 6,000 major Unix machines with a computer virus from Cornell University, slowing them down, rendering them unusable and causing millions of dollars in damage. Whether this virus is the first type is debatable. However, the public record is that he became the first person to be convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Morris said his "worm" was not released to destroy anything, but to measure the size of the Internet. However, that statement did not help him, and he was sentenced to a year of probation, as well as community service and a hefty fine. A computer disk containing the Morris worm's source code is still on display at the Boston Museum of Science.
8. Kevin Poulson Poulson (USA)
One of the American hacking giants, he first gained media attention by hacking the phone line of Los Angeles radio station KIIS-FM. A security company sent him a Porsche in order to attract talents; when he hacked into the US federal investigation database again, the authorities A serious pursuit of Poulson begins. He even appeared on American TV "Unsolved Mysteries" as a fugitive hacker, and has been targeted by the FBI for a long time, but it is difficult to collect evidence of his crime.
9. David Smith (USA)
Smith is the author of the infamous Melissa worm, the first successful email-aware virus posted in Usenet (newsgroup) discussion groups. The virus is sent by email in its original format. Smith was arrested and later jailed for over $80 million worth of damages, what a genius.
10. Sven Jaschan (Germany)
Jaschan, known as Germany's greatest "Godfather of Country Hacking Geniuses," created the Netsky and Sasser worms while still a teenager in 2004. He was responsible for 70% of all malware circulating on the internet at the time. Jaschan received a suspended sentence for his crime and was suspended for one year. He is also now employed by a security company, with a salary of up to $100,000 a month.
