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8) Kevin Poulsen

▪ Broken into FBI’s database.
▪ Was given 5 years prison time.

▪ Hacked telephone lines of a LA radio station to be secured

a place as the 102nd caller.

▪ Won a trip to Hawaii and a brand new Porsche 944.

▪ Considered the “Hannibal Lecter of computer crime”.

Types of hacking

1) Website Hacking- Hacking a website means taking control
from the website owner to a person who hacks the

website.

2) Network Hacking- Network Hacking is generally means
gathering information about domain by using tools like

Telnet, Ns look UP, Ping, Tracert, Netstat, etc.

3) Ethical Hacking- Ethical hacking is where a person hacks to

find weaknesses in a system and then usually patches
them.

4) Email Hacking– Email hacking is illicit access to an email

account or email correspondence.

5) Password Hacking- Password hacking Password cracking is

the process of recovering secret passwords from data that
has been stored in or transmitted by a computer system.