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Even though a great deal of individuals believe that hacking into their personal computers or into

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Even though a great deal of individuals believe that hacking into their personal computers or into business systems is unethical, it is done continuously. Some individuals do it for kicks, others to cause havoc in corporation’s data system, others do it to steal individual’s private information and even their identity, while others hack to assist the owners in recognizing their vulnerabilities and finding solutions to protect their information. Some corporations actually hire individuals to hack their systems so that they can find their faults so that they can proactively come up with solutions to protect their information. Individuals that hack systems and provide the information back to the individuals in which they have hacked are …show more content…

It was determined by watching the activities that the intruder was using Netcom’s system. Shimomura and Gross set up their office in the office of Robin Hood, network manager of Netcom. There Shimomura watched the screen matching tel-net logs from the activity from WELL with outgoing ones from Netcom. From this activity, Shimomura was able to find the account name being used, gkremen. Since this account was a legitimate account that the intruder took over. Knowing the account Shimomura was able to monitor the account activity as it was happening. By using a special software that Shimomura created he was able to capture the keystroke activity for this account. This information provided the means in which the intruder got into systems. Through efforts of a team of individuals a “trap and trace”, with federal approval, was done on the cell phone that the intruder used that showed that the largest amount of calls coming into Netcom were from the Raleigh POP, points of presence. When Shimomura called the intruder’s number he recognized the clunk, clunk, clunk of being forwarded back and forth. An engineer from Sprint, Jim Murphy, was able to determine the location of the intruder to a 1.25 square mile area. Shimomura headed to Raleigh, the determined location, where he was joined by Joe Orsak, an engineer at Sprint Cellular. Orsak using a CellScope and a yagi

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