History of Old School Hacking

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History of Old School Hacking Matt Harasymczuk

2011-05-10

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Matt Harasymczuk

• http://www.matt.harasymczuk.pl

• [email protected]

• MBP sp. z o.o, Software Engineer

• Poznan University of Technology, Network Engineer (intern)

• Consdata.pl, Network Administrator

• Hera sp. z o.o, Software Engineer

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abstract

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definitions

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Phreaking

• phone hacking

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Carding

• credit card hacking

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flame war

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hacker vs cracker

• good guys

• programers

• activists

• developers

• bad guys

• programmers

• vandals

• thieves

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"hackers build things, crackers break them."

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hence...

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white hat vs black hat

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in real world it is a bit fuzzy

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therefore

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grey hat

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devices

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Blue Box

• 2600 Hz

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Black Box

• Attached to phone

• at the both sides

• if off-the-hook

• toll free call

• used in BBS

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Red Box

• any recorder or player

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Dial-up modem

• 300 bodów

• 28kbps

• 56kbps

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old school hackers

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Alan Turing

• mathematician, logician,cryptanalyst and computer scientist

• Turing machine

• cracked Enigma machine

• 1952, illegal homosexual acts

• chemical castration

• suicide cyanide poisoning

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Konrad Zuse

• German engineer and computer pioneer

• 1941, world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3

• first high-level programming language

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Grace Hopper

• one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I

• developed the first compiler

• COBOL

• Found first BUG

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Donald Knuth

• Professor Emeritus

• Computer Scientist

• The Art of Computer Programming

• Stanford University

• "father" of the analysis of algorithms

• creator of the TeX

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Edsger W. Dijkstra

• Dutch computer scientist

• 1972 Turing Award

• shortest path-algorithm a.k.a “Dijkstra's algorithm”

• ALGOL

• Reverse Polish Notation, Shunting yard algorithm, Banker's algorithm,

• Dining philosophers problem

• 1968 article "A Case against the GO TO Statement”

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Dennis Richie and Ken Tomphson Unix creators

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Ed Gould

• one of the creators of BSD Unix

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John Draper

• a.k.a. “Capitan Crunch”

• Phreaker

• 1971 in Cap’n Crunch cereal whistle

• emits a 2600 hertz tone

• when 2nd hole was glued up

• created Blue Box

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Steve Wozniak

• a.k.a. “Woz”

• co-founded Apple Computer

• blue boxes

• created Apple I

• first Personal Computer

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Steve Jobs

• co-founder of Apple inc.

• saw potential in mouse-driven GUI

• founded NeXT in 1984

• CEO of Apple since 1997

• Jobs experimented with psychedelics

• calling his LSD experiences "one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life".

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William Henry Gates III

• a.k.a. “Bill”

• Microsoft

• wrote his first computer program on ASR-33 Teletype terminal

• 1975 at MITS Altair 8800 based on the Intel 8080 CPU

• distribute the interpreter as Altair BASIC

• Sold MS-DOS to IMB for $50k

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Paul Allen

• Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates

• in 1975, and began marketing a BASIC

• In 1980, after promising to deliver IBM a DOS

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Kevin Mitnick

• a.k.a. “Condor”

• Social Engineer

• arrested in 1995

• hacked into Digital Equipment Corporation systems, Nokia, Motorola, Fujitsu Siemens and many others.

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Larry Wall

• Perl in 1987

• author of path program

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Tsutomu Shimomura

• was hacked by Kevin Mitnick

• help the FBI to capture him

• Shimomura out-hacked Mitnick to bring him down

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Robert Morris

• professor at MIT

• created Morris Worm

• first computer worm

• co-founded the online store known by the name Viaweb, one of the first web-based applications, with Paul Graham

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Ian Murphy

• a.k.a. "Captain Zap"

• in 1981

• first person ever arrested for a computer crime

• hacked into AT&T's computers and changed their internal clocks

• People suddenly received late-night discounts in the afternoon

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Kevin Poulsen

• a.k.a. “Dark Dante”

• former black hat hacker

• takeover of the KIIS-FM phone lines

• 102nd caller and win the prize of a Porsche 944 S2

• taught himself lock picking

• America's best-known cyber-criminals

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Linus Torvalds

• Father of linux kernel

• git

• His M.Sc. thesis was titled Linux: A Portable Operating System.

• 35 patents worldwide

• Linus’ Law: "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee

• a.k.a. “TimBL”

• British physicist,computer scientist and MIT professor

• invented the World Wide Web

• director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

• Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his pioneering work

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Gary McKinnon

• a.k.a. “Solo”

• Scottish systems administrator

• has been accused of the biggest military computer hack of all time

• hacking into 97

• NASA, the US Army, US Navy, Department of Defense and the US Air Force computers

• Feb 2001 to Mar 2002

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Raphael Gray

• 19 when he hacked computer systems

• Jan and Feb 1999

• published details of over 6,500 credit cards

• using an £800 computer

• sent Viagra tablets to Bill Gates

• arrested in Mar 1999

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Mark Abene

• a.k.a. “Phiber Optik”

• from New York City

• member of Legion of Doom and Masters of Deception

• high-profile hacker in the early 1990s

• In 1994, one-year enprisonment

• for conspiracy and unauthorized access to computer and telephone systems

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Jonathan James

• a.k.a. “c0mrade”

• first juvenile incarcerated for cybercrime

• 15 when he hacked

• Defense Threat Reduction Agency, a division of the United States Department of Defense

• suicide May 18, 2008

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Deceptive Duo

• 20-year-old Benjamin Stark

• 18-year-old Robert Lyttle

• 2002 series of high-profile break-ins to government networks

• U.S. Navy, NASA, FAA and Department of Defense

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Adrian Lamo

• grey hat hacker

• exploited: Microsoft, the New York Times, Lexis-Nexis, and Yahoo!

• hunt down by FBI

• surrendered to the U.S. Marshals on September 9, 2003

• pay $65,000

• sentenced to home detention and probation

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MICHAEL CALCE

• a.k.a. “MafiaBoy”

• 15 years old

• Valentine’s Day in 2000

• DoS - 75 computers in 52 networks

• eBay, Amazon and Yahoo

• eight months of “open custody,”

• one year of probation, restricted use of the internet, and a small fine.

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Vladimir Levin

• a.k.a. “ArkanoiD”

• 1994 St. Petersburg hacker group

• tricked Citibank's computers into spitting out $10 million

• played around with systems’ tools (e.g. were installing and running games) and were unnoticed by the bank’s staff.

• three years in prison and ordered to pay Citibank $240,015 (his share from the heist)

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Gordon Lyon

• a.k.a. “Fyodor”

• network security expert

• open source programmer

• Nmap Security Scanner

• Insecure.Org

• SecLists.Org

• SecTools.Org

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Others

• Onel A. De Guzman

• Cheng Ing-Hau

• Mudge

• Jon Lech Johansen

• Dimitry Sklyarov

• David L. Smith

• Johan Helsingius

• Eric Steven Raymond

• John Perry Barlow

• Sven Jaschan

• Dennis Moran

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hacking subculture

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groups

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Chaos Computer Club

• a.k.a. “CCC”

• based in Germany, founded in 1981

• 9,000 members

• "a galactic community of life forms, independent of age, sex, race or societal orientation, which strives across borders for freedom of information...."

• Supporting the principles of the hacker ethic

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Legion of Doom

• founded in 1984

• weblog: "Cult of the Dead Cow"

• Cult's stated goal of "Global Domination Through Media Saturation,"

• Great hacker war with Masters of Deception

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Masters of Deception

• a.k.a. “MOD”

• New York-based hackergroup

• reportedly controlled all the major telephone RBOC's and X.25networks

• controlling large parts of the backbone of Internet

• levels of initiation and protection of more sensitive knowledge

• Great hacker war with Legion of Doom

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L0pht

• hacker collective

• active 1992 and 2000

• located in the Boston,Massachusetts area

• l0pht crack

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Team Elite

• international group of computer hackers

• who develop all kind of software and their primary focus is security

• found security holes at

• MI5, WHO, Kaspersky Lab, Avira, Symantec, McAfee, AVG, Eset, F-Secure, ESA, Trend Micro, Intel, eBay UK, PayPal, the U.S. Bank, Bank of America, RBS WorldPay, Visa, The New York Times, The Telegraph, Daily Express, MPAA, RIAA, Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom, Estoniaand Armenia, IFPI, Bhuvan, Deutsche Bundesbank.

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Anonymous

• It is not old, but it is notable!

• from 4chan.org

• LOIC

• HB Gary

• Sony

• DDoS on MPAA and RIAA

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Other notable

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hacktivists

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Richard Stallman

• a.k.a. “rms”

• GNU Project

• father of free software

• Emacs

• gcc, gdb

• against Digital Rights Management

• awards, fellowships and four honorary doctorates.

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Eric Corley

• Emmanuel Goldstein

• Off the Hook

• Free Kevin

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Eric Steven Raymond

• Cathedral and the Bazzar

• The Hacker's Dictionary

• How to Be a Hacker

• developer of fetchmail

• revels in living the life in all its geeky glory

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Loyd Blankenship

• The Mentor

• The Hacker Manifesto

• Member of Legion Of Doom

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movements

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l33t speak

• catb.org/jargon/

• glider

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ASCII art

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Free Kevin

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Hackerspace

• hackerspaces.org

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EHAP

• Ethical Hackers Against Pedophilia

• The Genocide2600 Group

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media

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Phrack magazine

• phrack.com

• first published November 17, 1985

• Fyodor: "the best, and by far the longest running hacker zine,"

• covers phreaking, anarchy, cracking, hacking, cryptography and international news.

• "has had its finger on the pulse of hacker culture"

• handbook and a manifesto for hackers

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2600

• Off the Hook

• 2600: The Hacker Quarterly

• HOPE conference

• 2600.com

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The Hacker Manifesto

• The Mentor -> Blankenship

• wrote after he was arrested in 1986

• hacker’s only crime is curiosity

• a moral guide to hackers

• a cornerstone of hacker philosophy

• reprinted in Phrack

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The Cathedral and the Bazzar

• a.k.a. “CatB”

• essay by Eric S. Raymond

• based on his observations of the Linux kernel development process

• and his experiences managing an open source project, fetchmail

• at Linux Congress, May 27, 1997

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movies

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War games

• imdb.com/title/tt0086567

• 1983

• Matthew Broderick

• Dabney Coleman

• John Wood

• Ally Sheedy

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Hackers

• imdb.com/title/tt0113243

• 1995

• Jonny Lee Miller

• Angelina Jolie

• Hackers 2

• Hackers 3

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Sneakers

• imdb.com/title/tt0105435

• 1992

• Gary Hershberger

• Robert Redford

• Sidney Poitier

• David Strathairn

• Dan Aykroyd

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communication

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Bulletin board system

• a.k.a. “BBS”

• Once logged in

• user can uploading and downloading software and data

• reading news and bulletins

• exchanging messages with other users, either through electronic mail or in public message boards

• access via a Telnet

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Usenet

• Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis in 1979

• worldwide distributed Internet discussion system

• Usenet resembles a bulletin board system

• precursor to the various Internet forums

• absence of a central server and dedicated administrator

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Internet Relay Chat

• a.k.a. “IRC”

• IRC was created in 1988

• real-time Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing

• mainly designed for group communication

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fun

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The great hacker war

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wardriving

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wargames

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crack me

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uplink

• Hacker Elite

• introversion.co.uk/uplink/

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conferences

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defcon www.defcon.org

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black hat blackhat.com

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hope hope.net

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Any questions?Matt Harasymczuk [email protected] www.matt.harasymczuk.pl

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I rest my case That's all Folks

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Thank you.