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Jul 02
2009

Notes from the Lighter Side

Posted by Greg Hluska in Security

So, there was this security guard/cyber-criminal named Jesse McGraw who worked at a place called the Carrell Clinic in Dallas, Texas. Mr. McGraw loved hacking and he loved spy movies. Everything would have likely been okay, but he decided to combine his two loves...

Mr. McGraw decided it would be cool to film himself installing a botnet client on hospital computers.  Then, he decided it would be be even cooler to set that video to the Mission Impossible theme and put it up on Youtube.  There were two problems - first, he didn't do a very good job of disguising himself.  And second, he bragged about his exploits on forums and in his blog.

Here is where things get a little bit ironic.  Another hacker started bragging to the wrong people about how he/she actually committed Mr. McGraw's crimes.   A security researcher/graduate student named Wesley McGrew (yes, his name is only one letter off) quickly realized that this other hacker was lying, traced the actual exploits back to Jesse McGraw, and then notified the authorities.  The authorities investigated the crimes and arrested Jesse McGraw.

And now, here is the punch line, when asked to comment, Wesley McGrew told Network World, "He's a security guard at the hospital, but he's pretending to infiltrate a corporate office and he's running around with a hoodie on over his security guard uniform and installing botnet software on a hospital computer all to the Mission Impossible music. [You] can't make this stuff up."

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The rules lol
written by Nima Sharifimehr, July 08, 2009
Well if he had followed a few rules, then he wouldn't get into much trouble:

Rule# uno: never let no one know.
Rule# two: never let'em know your next move.
Rule# three: never trust no body.
Rule# four: never get jacked, on your own hack.
Rule# five: never do no hack where you work or live at.
Rule# six: that damn hack-bud, dead it, forget it.
Rule# seven: keep your hacks and your posts on forums completely separated.
Rule# eight: never keep no backtrack or no hack%$#@ on you
Rule# nine: you know it!
Rule# ten: no consignment!

- Keep it realz!
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written by Greg H., July 08, 2009
Follow those rules you'll have mad hacks to make up, if not under house arrest is how you wake up?
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Lauriez
written by Tummy Tuck Before And After, October 18, 2011
My best friend stated this site on Youtube.
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