国内大事记编辑本段回目录
国外大事记编辑本段回目录
1983
Hacker Neal Patrick, age 17, of the notorious hacking group 414s testifies before theU.S. House of Representatives about the ease of computer break-ins and the mannerin which they might be stopped. The “hacker,” who has admittedly broken into dozens of computer systems nationwide, including those at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Security Pacific Bank, and the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, explains to Congress how easy and dangerous hacking is and how simple it would be to stop. The 414s hacking exploits, along with the much sensationalized film WarGames, had awoken a national awareness of the danger of hackers. As a result, congressman Dan Glickman (D) of Kansas called for an investigation into and new laws regarding computer crimes. “There was no damage, but the potential for damage was enormous,” Neal Patrick said of his activities and those of six friends known as the “414s”, after the area code of their hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Six bills concerning computer crime will be introduced in the House later that year. After the passage of the bills into law, criminalizing hacking, white hat, grey hat and black hat hackers will begin to distinguish themselves from each other, depending on the legality of their activities.
Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by certifying that an incoming nuclear missile attack reported by a computer system is a false alarm without any verification and against policy. Read more at BrightStarSound.
1994年9月26日，Macromedia帮助Home Shopping Network完善网上商品采购
1995
Sunsoft announces suite of business-oriented development products incorporatingJava.
1996年9月26日，AT&T、GE等多家美国企业巨头联合创建业务贸易系统，有利于网上采购
2000
Yahoo! launches Yahoo! Experts.
2003
Jeffrey Parson, age 18, of Hopkins, Minnesota is arrested for creating and releasing a variant of the Blaster Computer Worm, which launched a type of distributed denial-of-service attack (DoS) attack known as a a SYN flood against port 80 of the Microsoftsite windowsupdate.com. The damage to Microsoft’s website was minimal because the attack targeted windowsupdate.com, which merely redirected browsers towindowsupdate.microsoft.com. Microsoft temporarily shut down the targeted site to minimize potential effects of the worm without loosing a great deal of legitimate traffic. The worm contained two messages, “I just want to say LOVE YOU SAN!!” and “billy gates why do you make this possible ? Stop making money and fix your software!!”
2007
A hacker posts the personal data of twelve hundred eBay users, including their creditcard numbers, on eBay’s Trust & Safety forum. eBay will claim that the credit card numbers are not the ones associated with the user names listed, but the incident still raises serious concerns over eBay’s security.
A panel of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejects the 1-Click online purchasing system patent claim filed by Amazon.com due to evidence that the claim infringed on an earlier patent filed by New Zealand actor Peter Calveley. The patent was granted in 1998, but, in its decision, the panel reversed an earlier decision approving the patent claim.
