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1. Which group hacked into Hotmail?
2. Who was 'The Analyser' and what did he do?
3. Which hacker was sent to jail for fraud?
4. What was the effect of the 1996 raid on Scotland Yard?
5. Which of the cases reported here involved teenagers?
6. What did hackers do to the Yahoo! website?
7. What crime was Raphael Gray accused of?
| Kevin Mitnick is the hackers' hero. His latest spell in jail was a 46-month sentence 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. | Hotmail, Microsoft's free email service, was hacked into last September, exposing the correspondence of more than 40m users. A group calling itself Hackers Unite posted a Web address with details of how to access any Hotmail account. The service was shut down for five hours. | ||||
| In March 2000, a Welsh teenager allegedly stole information from more than 26,000 credit card accounts across Britain, the US, Japan, Canada and Thailand, and published the details on the Internet. FBI agents and British police raided the home of Raphael Gray, 18, and arrested him and his Mend. He has been charged with 10 counts of downloading unauthorised information. | The UK Department of Trade and Industry has twice been prey to hackers, once in 1996 and again in 2000 when a DTI computer was programmed to reroute email. The Home Office investigated nine cases of hacking last year, one of which was the leaking of a report on a murder, in August 1996 hackers ran up a £lm phone bill for Scotland Yard but did not access files. | ||||
| In 1998 Washington revealed that an Israeli hacker called 'The Analyser' was responsible for the most organised attempt to penetrate the Pentagon's computer systems'. He turned out to be Ehud Tenenbaum, 18, who had planted a list of his own passwords in the Pentagon system and passed them to other hackers. | In 1997 hackers got into the Yahool website, replacing the homepage with a ransom note demanding the release of their hero, Kevin Mitnick. Unless the demand was met, the note said, a virus would be released in all Yahoo's computers. The company dismissed the threat as a hoax, but the Tree Kevin' slogan continued to appear on other hijacked sites. | ||||
| In 1997 the son of a fraud squad detective walked free from a court in London after charges of breaching the security of the US air force were dropped. Three years earlier Mathew Bevan, then 19, and a friend, Richard Pryce, 16, used the Internet to gain access to several US military bases. Pryce was fined £1,200 after admitting several other offences. | |||||
4. Learn the meaning of the following words and phrases:
| Geek – компьютерный фанатик; человек, зациклившийся на каком-то профессиональном предмете; Anorak – человек, "помешанный" на чем-то; компьютерный фанат; Inept – неумелый, некомпетентный; Dedicated – выделенный, специальный; преданный; посвятивший себя чему-л.; предназначенный для чего-л.; Expose – разоблачать; подвергать опасности; Unaware – незнающий, неведающий; Boast – хвастать; True – настоящий; Belongto – принадлежать; Compete – соревноваться; Gradually – постепенно; Plant – внедрять; размещать; Misuse – неверно использовать; Restricted – ограниченный; Exposedweakness – обнаруженное слабое место; Hijack – несанкционированно использовать; захватывать; Deface – портить; искажать; повреждать; Blackmail – шантажировать; Damage – ущерб; Experience – опыт, жизненный опыт; Guess – угадать; Failed – неудачный; Dangerous – опасный; Various – различный; Avoid – избегать; Purchase – покупка; Store – хранить; Amount – сумма; количество; Instead of – вместо; Require – требовать; | Fault – неисправность, отказ, ошибка, сбой; дефект, повреждение; выход из строя; Employee – сотрудник; Trusting – доверчивый; Include – включать; Guest – гость; Demo – демонстрационный образец, демонстрационная программа, демоверсия; Firewall – система защиты доступа; средства сетевой защиты; межсетевой экран, защитная система, брандмауэр (аппаратные или программные средства межсетевой защиты); Permitted – разрешенный; Dictionary – словарь; Audit – отчет, проверка, ревизия; проверять отчётность, ревизовать, проводить ревизию; аудит (отслеживание действий пользователей путем записи в журнал безопасности выбранных типов событий безопасности или систематическая, независимая и документированная ревизия, позволяющая получить обзор и анализ системных записей и активности системы с целью установления её текущего состояния безопасности или степени выполнения согласованных критериев аудита) Eventlog – журнал регистрации событий, ведется как операционной системой, так и многими приложениями; служит для обеспечения безопасности и обнаружения вторжений, помогают устанавливать причины сбоев системы; Attach – прикреплять, прилагать. |
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