Albert Gonzalez In Criminal Justice

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Albert Gonzalez is an American hacker and computer criminal who is included in the charge card robbery and exchanging of more than 170 million cards and ATM numbers from 2005 through 2007. He is otherwise called "Segvec," "Soupnazi" and "J4guar" among Internet circles. Gonzalez and his group utilized Wardriving and SQL infusion to send auxiliary sections on a couple of corporate structures to dispatch bundle sniffing (especially, ARP Spoofing) ambushes which allowed him to take PC data from inward corporate frameworks.
Gonzalez had three government indictments:
1. May 2008 in New York for the Dave and Buster's case
2. May 2008 in Massachusetts for the TJ Maxx case
3. August 2009 in New Jersey about the Heartland Payment case.
On March 25, 2010, Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 years in government imprison (Doupé, 2015).
How did he become a hacker?
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Here, he changed his nickname to “Segvec” and started a new identity theft ring called Operation Get Rich or Die Tryin ‘and teamed up with two Russian programmers. For this operation, they used a technique known as “Wardriving” (Suddath, 2009).
Wardriving technique Wardriving is the demonstration of looking for Wi-Fi remote systems by a man in a moving vehicle, utilizing a compact computer, cell phone or personal digital assistant (PDA). Programmers would sit in autos or vans in the parking garages of huge box stores with portable PCs and high-control radio receiving wires and search for retailer's available remote web signals. When they locate a powerless system, they introduced sniffer programs that caught credit and platinum card numbers, as they traveled through a retailer's handling computer (Verini, 2010).
Breaches with Wardriving

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