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This essay is history of hacking.
Title: This essay is history of hacking.
Category: Science & Technology / Internet
Details: Words: 2473 | Pages: 10.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
This essay is history of hacking.
Early 1960s <<...>> University facilities with huge mainframe computers, like MIT's artificial intelligence lab, become staging grounds for hackers. At first, "hacker" was a positive term that was used to describe a person with a mastery of computers who could push programs beyond what they were designed to do.
[1969] Joe Engressia ('The Whistler', 'Joybubbles' and 'High Rise Joe') considered the father of phreaking. Joe, who is blind, was a mathematics student at …showed first 75 words of 2473 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2473 total…Microsoft admits that its corporate network has been hacked and source code for future Windows products has been seen.
2001: DNS Attack
Microsoft becomes the prominent victim of a new type of hack that attacks the domain name server. In these denial-of-service attacks, the DNS paths that take users to Microsoft's Web sites are corrupted. The hack is detected within a few hours, but prevents millions of users from reaching Microsoft Web pages for two days.
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