Famous top ten hackers

The name of a hacker would be famous after successfully penetrate complex computer security system. Their action was sometimes up into the hands of the law, but not a few who actually are employed by large companies. Yes, some hackers apparently did not have malicious intent. In addition to showing the vulnerability of the system that has broke dawn.


In the end, they even have a duty to maintain the security of the system of hazard or working in other fields. Anyone? Here are some of them, as quoted from PCMag, Thursday (26/04/2012).


Peter Hajas
Peter Hajas is the maker of the popular applications on the IOS device that has been in-jailbreak, named MobileNotifier. With MobileNotifier, the user can modify the user interface on IOS devices such as iPad and iPhone.

A few months after the application is launched, Hajas claimed via Twitter that he was invited to join the company 'fruit', none other than Apple. Reportedly, he became a developer in there.


Johnny Chung
Chung is known never to take action to crack down at the controller Wiimote used to control the Nintendo Wii game console. Only with a fairly simple equipment.

Chung then immediately hired by Microsoft to co-develop on an Xbox controller Kinect. Reportedly, Google is also interested in using skills they have.


Jeff Moss

Jeff Moss is the founder and originator of the Black Hat hacker conference DEF CON. Long history as a hacker has been started since the 1980's so that the skill is very capable.

No kidding, Jeff was employed as a security consultant in the United States government agency, Homeland Security Advisory Council. In addition, he also became Chief Security Officer at ICANN.

Chris Putnam
In college, Chris Putnam and his friends created the worm to infect Facebook. Facebook party represented one of its founder, Dustin Moskovitz Putnam was contacted because it actually impressed with the action.

Putnam finally decided to drop out and join up as an engineer. He was assigned to make an application on Facebook.

Ashley Towns

In 2009, Ashley Towns from Australia who is making the first worm targeting the iPhone. This virus is automatically a photo of a famous singer in the infected iPhone wallpaper.

An iPhone application development company named Mogeneration was interested in his talent. Did not take long, he was employed there.

Kevin Poulsen
Kevin is able to break into the radio station KIIS FM network which allows it to manipulate and win a competition there. Later, he also broke into the FBI computer which makes it held five years in prison.

Now, he is repentance and a senior journalist at Wired's leading technology media. He was much talked about security.

George Hotz
George Hotz or commonly known as the towering Geohot name after breaking into the PlayStation 3 system so that it can play pirated games. To the extent that Sony had memperkarakannya to court.

His talent made him great was employed by Facebook. Although the latter is rumored he was out of the world's largest social networking site it.

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