Cyber attacks

By Abigb
  • Morris Worm

    Morris Worm
    In 1988 a student at Cornell Univeristy in the USA, Robert Tappan Morris created a first computer worm trasmitted through the internet.
  • Virus Melissa

    In 1999 David L. Smith created a malware used social networks, causing damages to companies like Microsoft, Intel o Lucent Technologies.
  • Hack the Nasa and Pentagon

    Hack the Nasa and Pentagon
    In october of 1999 Jonathan James have access the computer of US Departament of Defense division and he was able yo steal a piece of Nasa software.
  • Anna Kournikova(computer virus)

    Anna Kournikova(computer virus)
    In 2001 Jan de Wit designed a virus that tricked email users with a picture of Ana that when opened was forwarded to the victim's contacts.
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    Hackers steal millions of credit cards

    From 2005 to 2007 Albert Gonzalez and his accomplices used a SQL code infiltration method to hacked the payment card network.