Prevention on the Flash Drives Viruses/Worms
1. Go to Start>>RUN>> and Type gpedit.msc
2. In the GROUP POLICY window, go to USER CONFIGURATION>>SYSTEM
3. Find Turn Off AUTOPLAY in the right pane of the window and select ENABLE
4. Close the Group policy...
Top 10 Hackers in WORLD / Famous Hackers till 2011
Gary McKinnon, 40, accused of mounting the largest ever hack of United States
government computer networks — including Army, Air Force, Navy and NASA systems The court has recommended that McKinnon be extradited to the United States to face charges of illegally accessing 97 computers, causing US$700,000 (400,000 pounds; euro 588,000) in damage.
Jonathan james world top 10 hackersThe youth, known as “cOmrade” on the Internet, pleaded guilty to
intercepting 3,300 email messages at one of the Defense Department’s most sensitive operations and
stealing data from 13 NASA computers, including some devoted to the new International Space Station. J
ames gained notoriety when he became the first juvenile to be sent to prison for hacking. He was sentenced at 16 years old. He installed a backdoor into a Defense Threat Reduction Agency server. The DTRA is an agency off the Department of Defense charged with reducing the threat to the U.S. and its allies from nuclear, biological, chemical, conventional and special weapons. The backdoor he created enabled him to view sensitive e-mails and capture employee usernames and passwords.James also cracked into NASA computers, stealing software worth approximately $1.7 million. According to the Department of Justice, “The software supported the International Space Station’s physical environment, including control of the temperature and humidity within the living space.” NASA was forced to shut down its computer systems, ultimately racking up a $41,000 cost.
andrew lamo top most hacker in worldDubbed the “homeless hacker,” he used Internet connections at Kinko’s, coffee shops and libraries to do his intrusions. In a profile article, “He Hacks by Day, Squats by Night,” Lamo reflects, “I have a laptop in Pittsburgh, a change of clothes in D.C. It kind of redefines the term multi-jurisdictional.”Dubbed the “homeless hacker,” he used Internet connections at Kinko’s, coffee shops and libraries to do his intrusions. For his intrusion at The New York Times, Lamo was ordered to pay approximately $65,000 in restitution. He was also sentenced to six months of home confinement and two years of probation, which expired January 16, 2007. Lamo is currently working as an award-winning journalist and public speaker.
kevin mitnick top most world hackersThe Department of Justice describes him as “the most wanted computer criminal in United States history.” His exploits were detailed in two movies: Freedom Downtime and Takedown. He started out exploiting the Los Angeles bus punch card system to get free rides. Then, like Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, dabbled in phone phreaking. Although there were numerous offenses, Mitnick was ultimately convicted for breaking into the Digital Equipment Corporation’s computer network and stealing software.Today, Mitnick has been able to move past his role as a black hat hacker and become a productive member of society. He served five years, about 8 months of it in solitary confinement, and is now a computer security consultant, author and speaker.
kevin poulsen worlds best hacker Also known as Dark Dante, Poulsen gained recognition for his hack of
LA radio’s KIIS-FM phone lines, (taing over all of the station’s phone lines) which earned him a brand new Porsche, among other items. Law enforcement dubbed him “the Hannibal Lecter of computer crime.”Authorities began to pursue Poulsen after he hacked into a federal investigation database. During this pursuit, he further drew the ire of the FBI by hacking into federal computers for wiretap information.His hacking specialty, however, revolved around telephones. Poulsen’s most famous hack, In a related feat, Poulsen also “reactivated old Yellow Page escort telephone numbers for an acquaintance who then ran a virtual escort agency.” Later, when his photo came up on the show Unsolved Mysteries, 1-800 phone lines for the program crashed. Ultimately, Poulsen was captured in a supermarket and served a sentence of five years.Since serving time, Poulsen has worked as a journalist. He is now a senior editor for Wired News. His most prominent article details his work on identifying 744 sex offenders with MySpace profiles.
morris one of top 10 hacker n crackerMorris, son of former National Security Agency scientist Robert Morris,
is known as the creator of the Morris Worm, the first computer worm to be unleashed on the Internet.
As a result of this crime, he was the first person prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Morris wrote the code for the worm while he was a student at Cornell. He asserts that he intended to use it to see how large the Internet was. The worm, however, replicated itself excessively, slowing computers down so that they were no longer usable. It is not possible to know exactly how many computers were affected, but experts estimate an impact of 6,000 machines. He was sentenced to three years’ probation, 400 hours of community service and a fined $10,500.Morris is currently working as a tenured professor at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He principally researches computer network architectures including distributed hash tables such as Chord and wireless mesh networks such as Roofnet.
Vladimir Levin top most hacker in worldLevin accessed the accounts of several large corporate customers of
Citibank via their dial-up wire transfer service (Financial Institutions Citibank Cash Manager) and transferred funds to accounts set up by accomplices in Finland, the United States, the Netherlands, Germany and Israel.In 2005 an alleged member of the former St. Petersburg hacker group, claiming to be one of the original Citibank penetrators, published under the name ArkanoiD a memorandum on popular Provider.net.ru website dedicated to telecom market. According to him, Levin was not actually a scientist (mathematician, biologist or the like) but a kind of ordinary system administrator who managed to get hands on the ready data about how to penetrate in Citibank machines and then exploit them.ArkanoiD emphasized all the communications were carried over X.25 network and the Internet was not involved. ArkanoiD’s group in 1994 found out Citibank systems were unprotected and it spent several weeks examining the structure of the bank’s USA-based networks remotely. Members of the group played around with systems’ tools (e.g. were installing and running games) and were unnoticed by the bank’s staff. Penetrators did not plan to conduct a robbery for their personal safety and stopped their activities at some time. Someone of them later handed over the crucial access data to Levin (reportedly for the stated $100).
david smith top 10 hacker till nowDavid Smith, the author of the e-mail virus known as Melissa, which swamped computers around the world, spreading like a malicious chain letter. He was facing nearly 40 years in jail . About 63,000 viruses have rolled through the Internet, causing an estimated $65 billion in damage, but Smith is the only person to go to federal prison in the United States for sending one.
Abene (born 1972), better known by his pseudonym Phiber Optik, is a computer security hacker from New York City. Phiber Optik was once a member of the Hacker Groups Legion of Doom and Masters of Deception. In 1994, he served a one-year prison sentence for conspiracy and unauthorized access to computer and telephone systems. Phiber Optik was a high-profile hacker in the early 1990s, appearing in The New York Times, Harper’s, Esquire, in debates and on television. Phiber Optik is an important figure in the 1995 non-fiction book Masters of Deception — The Gang that Ruled Cyberspace.
Onel A. de Guzman international hacker el A. de Guzman, a Filipino computer student, Greatest Hacker of all time. He was creator of “Love Bug” virus that crippled computer e-mail systems worldwide.
How to Remove Malicious/VIRUS/WORMS in your Infected PC's
Just made his tutorial para sa mga owners na INFECTED ng mga common VIRUSES/WORMS/Malicious Files na makukuha natin sa internet nowadays...
What are the SYMPTOMS?
1. DISABLED ang TASKMANGER mo.
2. DISABLED ang FOLDER OPTIONS mo.
3. DISABLED ang REGISTRY EDITING mo.
4. DISABLED or HINDI gumagana ang ANTIVIRUS mo.
5. This is seldom, hindi mo ma-access ang Command Prompt mo.
How to FIX This?
Again, this tutorial is based on my experienced in dealing with this problems... Sa mga nagamit ko na mga app, ito yung nakikita ko na EFFECTIVE... heres how;
1. DISABLE THE SYSTEM RESTORE ng PC..
2. Then Download and Install Task Killer... If you want to learn more on this app, go here... After installing, may makikita ka na bagong ICON sa System Tray mo, Click mo sya ang navigate sa mga TASK mo.... Just place the Cursor sa mga task and take note of the manufacturer of that Task... Kung hindi sya Legit, END mo sya agad...
3. Then, Download and Install the COMBOFIX.EXE- Para alisin nya lahat ng mga malicious sa PC mo...
4. Then, Download and Install also the SDFix.exe- To fix your Registry and many problem in your PC...You need to run it in SAFEMODE... Once na na-install mo sya, go to C:\SDFIx folder and run the Run_This.bat File..
5. Then, this Optional, Download and Install CCCLeaner- To clean your Temporary Files..
6. Update your ANTIVIRUS' Database or in worse scenario, REINSTALL/REPLACE it...
Hope this helps sa inyo...
To turn off Windows XP System Restore:
NOTE: These instructions assume that you are using the default Windows XP Start Menu and have not changed to the Classic Start menu. To re-enable the default menu, right-click Start, click Properties, click Start menu (not Classic) and then click OK.
1. Click Start.
2. Right-click the My Computer icon, and then click Properties.
3. Click the System Restore tab.
4. Check "Turn off System Restore" or "Turn off System Restore on all drives"
5. Click Apply.
6. When turning off System Restore, the existing restore points will be deleted. Click Yes to do this.
7. Click OK.
8. Proceed with what you need to do; for example, virus removal. When you have finished, restart the computer and follow the instructions in the next section to turn on System Restore.