Mafiaboy

male
usa today, The Register, computer crime laws, Critic, computer crime, American…federal bureau of investigation, Denial-of-service attack
MafiaBoy (Mike Calce) was the Internet alias of a high school student from the upscale area of The West Island in Montreal, Canada who launched a...
Tim Bass

Tim Bass

male
popular science, email bomb, email bombs, Frank Vizard, Egress Filtering, Blackhole Strategy…Denial-of-service attack, Communications of the ACM, internet service provider
Tim Bass (Timothy James Bass), an Internet security expert, invented Egress Filtering, an Internet security technique, on 21 September 1996, as a...
Leo Kuvayev

Leo Kuvayev

male
Botnet, tahiti, phishing, São Tomé, botnets, Computer criminal…Denial-of-service attack
Leo Kuvayev is believed to be the ringleader of one of the world's biggest spam gangs. He and six business partners were fined $37 million as a...

Mixter

male
Computer security specialist, hacker, black hat, cult of the dead cow, white hat, Denial-of-service attack…Cult of the Dead Cow member, distributed denial of service
Mixter is a hacker based in Germany. He first gained worldwide attention and notoriety as a black hat hacker, responsible for an entire series of...
Dennis Moran

Dennis Moran

male, 27 years old
ICMP, Internet Control Message Protocol, E*TRADE, efnet, RSA Security, Computer Emergency Response Team…Denial-of-service attack, Denial of service attacks, smurf attack, federal bureau of investigation
Dennis M. Moran, also known as Coolio, (born in Winchester, Massachusetts, in 1982) is an American hacker who was accused in February 2000 of a...