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Adrian Lamo’s hacking into the networks of high-profile organizations like Microsoft and the New York Times made him one of the most renowned hackers in history.
He breached the security barriers of major companies and anonymously pointed them at existing vulnerabilities. Although he did not have any malicious intent, his intrusions were not authorized and therefore considered cyber crimes.
He never used his home line for any of his provocative attacks, preferring public access points, such as Kinko’s, cafes and libraries – and that’s what earned him the nickname of “homeless hacker”. Always on the move, he successfully hacked companies we all know very well: Yahoo!, Bank of America, Cingular and Citigroup.
For a certain period of time, he managed to get away with his vigilante acts, but he made a big mistake after he broke into The New York Times intranet and LexisNexis account containing confidential data about employees, contributors and partners.
Although Lamo informed the company about this vulnerability and offered assistance in fixing it, charges were shortly filed against him and the hacker’s desire to help was punished by an ample fine, half a year of home confinement and two years of probation.
Biography Credit: www.pickysite.com/blog/security/58.html
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