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  In 1988 a student at Cornell Univeristy in the USA, Robert Tappan Morris created a first computer worm trasmitted through the internet.
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  In 1999 David L. Smith created a malware used social networks, causing damages to companies like Microsoft, Intel o Lucent Technologies.
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  In october of 1999 Jonathan James have access the computer of US Departament of Defense division and he was able yo steal a piece of Nasa software.
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  In 2001 Jan de Wit designed a virus that tricked email users with a picture of Ana that when opened was forwarded to the victim's contacts.
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  From 2005 to 2007 Albert Gonzalez and his accomplices used a SQL code infiltration method to hacked the payment card network.