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IT Security Everywhere
IT Security Issues - Those were the old days

Jan 1, 1983 TCP/IP becomes the core Internet protocol, replacing NCP entirely.

Jan 29, 1996 The home page promoting the Hollywood movie, "Hackers" is itself hacked.

Feb 15, 1995 Superhacker Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI.

Feb 28, 1995 Reuters news service reports that computer hackers have taken over a British military satellite and are holding it for ransom.

Mar 06, 1992 Michelangelo's birthday passes uneventfully despite widespread threat of a Michelangelo virus.

Mar 10, 1999 widespread threat of Melissa virus caused 1B USD lost worldwide.

Mar 27, 1994 Justin Tanner Peterson pleads guilty to charges of attempting an illegal transfer of funds. After his brief jail term he goes on to work for the FBI, earning the nickname "Agent Steele".

Apr 4, 1977 Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman develop the RSA algorithm for public key cryptography and go on to establish RSA Data Security (See RSA link)

Apr 7, 1995 British Airways admits that employees "may have accessed information" held on computers of rival Virgin Airlines

Apr 26, 1999 Chernobyl computer virus, marking the 13th anniversary of the Russian nuclear disaster, strikes approximately 600,000 Turkis, 240,000 Korean and 100,000 Chinese computers, making it the most widely spread computer virus of all time.

May 5, 1995 A judge's order makes Chris Lamprecht (aka Minor Threat) the first person banned from the Internet.

May 5, 1999 [I Love You] virus caused 3 Million computers infected with 100B USD lost worldwide.

May 12, 1998 Lloyd's of London offers anti-hacking insurance.

June 1, 1990 Hacker Kevin Paulsen seizes control of the telephone system of a radio station, makes himself the 102nd contest caller, and wins a new Porsche.

June 1 , 1999 Anti-online Internet security Web Site comes under massive "denial of service" attack, going down for 3 hours, 54 minutes

July 1 , 1999 Three brothers are arrested for breaking into the computer systems of the Israeli intelligence agency and security service.

July 9 , 1999 Web site for DEF CON, the famed annual hackers' convention, is hacked.

Aug 17, 1997 U.S. Prosecutors seek extradition of Vladimir Levin, who is accused of computer theft of $10 million from Citibank in Russia.

Aug 25 , 1999 David Smith admits to creating the Melissa virus.

Sep 1, 1977 The RSA algorithm is published in Scientific American magazine.

Sep 13, 1999 RSA Security is formed, the unification of Security Dynamics and RSA Data Security

Sep 18, 1942 British scientists begin to successfully decipher the radio broadcast code, Enigma

Oct 16, 1998 Indian Army's Kashmir Web site is hijacked by hackers who fill it with political messages.

Oct 26, 1978 Stanley Mark Rifkin uses computer code to transfer US$10.2 million from Security Pacific National Bank, then the largest bank theft in American history.

Oct 31, 1941 (Halloween USA) Police arrest Robert J. "Roscoe" Pitts, first man to have successfully obliterated his fingerprints.

Nov 1, 1999 Hackers break into the Web site of Romania's Fiance Ministry and create new tax categories including a "Silliness Tax."

Nov 2, 1988 Robert Morris, Jr., a Cornell graduate student, completes and releases a "worm" on the Internet.

Dec 14, 1996 Hacker shuts down Web Communications, host of 3,000 commercial Web sites, during height of holiday shopping season.

Dec 25, 1997 Hackers claim a "logic bomb" will go off in the PCs of all Yahoo users unless hacker Kevin Mitnick is released from prison.

More issues are coming soon ...

　Update Oct 2000

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