CHAPTER 2
HISTORY OF COMPUTER CRIME
M. E. Kabay
2.1 WHY STUDY HISTORICAL RECORDS?
2.3.1 Direct Damage to Computer Centers
2.3.2 1970–1972: Albert the Saboteur
2.4.1 1970: Jerry Neal Schneider
2.4.2 1980–2003: Kevin Mitnick
2.5.2 1982–1991: Kevin Poulsen
2.6.1 Equity Funding Fraud (1964–1973)
2.6.2 1994: Vladimir Levin and the Citibank Heist
2.10.2 Scrambler, 12-Tricks and PC Cyborg
2.10.3 1994: Datacomp Hardware Trojan
2.10.6 Hardware Trojans and Information Warfare
2.11 NOTORIOUS WORMS AND VIRUSES
2.11.1 1970–1990: Early Malware Outbreaks
2.11.2 December 1987: Christmas Tree Worm
2.11.3 November 2, 1988: Morris Worm
2.12.1 1994: Green Card Lottery Spam
2.14 HACKER UNDERGROUND OF THE 1980S AND 1990S
2.14.1 1981: Chaos Computer Club
2.14.3 1984: Cult of the Dead Cow
2.14.4 1984: 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
2.14.7 1989: Masters of Deception
2.14.8 1990: Operation Sundevil
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