The timeline of computer security hackers - The First 5

The timeline of computer security hackers history covers important and noteworthy events in the history of security hacking and cracking.

1903

Magician and inventor Nevil Maskelyne disrupts John Ambrose Fleming's public demonstration of Guglielmo Marconi's purportedly secure wireless telegraphy technology, sending insulting Morse code messages through the auditorium's projector.[1]

1932

Polish cryptologists Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Ró?ycki broke the Enigma machine code.

1939

Alan Turing, Gordon Welchman and Harold Keen worked together to develop the Bombe (on the basis of Rejewski's works on Bomba). 

The Enigma machine's use of a reliably small key space makes it vulnerable to brute force. A hollywood movie IMITATION GAMES starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Allan is based on the code breaking attempts done by Allan and his comrades.

1943

René Carmille, comptroller general of the Vichy French Army, hacked the punched card system used by the Nazis to locate Jews.

1949

The theory that underlies computer viruses was first made public in 1949, when computer pioneer John von Neumann presented a paper titled 

"Theory and Organization of Complicated Automata." In the paper von Neumann speculated that computer programs could reproduce themselves.