Rafael Núñez (hacker)

Rafael Núñez (also known as RaFa) is a white hat computer hacker who used to be a member of the World of Hell and a retired model from Venezuela.

He was arrested by FBI and The Pentagon's Defense Criminal Investigative on April 2, 2005 following his arrival at Miami International Airport for breaking into the Defense Information Systems Agency computer system on June 2001. He defaced the system (exploiting a weakness of the Microsoft IIS 5.0 webserver) with a web page containing the text "WoH is Back... and kiss my a$$ cause I just 0wn3d yours!" with a link to another page featuring the World of Hell. Núñez also faced allegations of hacking into NASA computers in August 2001 and copying designs for C.O.B.R.A., a next generation space launch vehicle. However, the NASA allegations were dropped.

RaFa also figured in the book The Hacker Diaries: Confessions of Teenage Hackers (2002), from Dan Verton. Currently Nuñez is deputy director for cpiu.us (Counter Pedophilia Investigative Unit) an organization dedicated to educate the public in how to protect their children and increase general public awareness about Online Pedophilia since 2000. Also founder of EnfoqueSeguro, a website devoted to cover security breaches in computers.

Currently Rafael Núñez is a partner in CleanPerception an Online Reputation Management start-up in Caracas, Venezuela.

References

• Epstein, Kevin (November 20, 2008). "Network Security Breaches Plague NASA". Business Week. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_48/b4110072404167.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-12. 

External links

• Zone-h
• Securiyfocus News
• Hell is 700 sites hacked in one minute
• Clean Perception (Actual company from which Rafael Núñez is partner)
• Counter Pedophilia Investigative Unit (cpiu.us).
• The Hacker Diaries.