ABSTRACT
Ehud Tenenbaum was born in Hod Hasharon, Israel in 1979. He became somewhat famous in 1998 when, at the age of 19, he was leading a small team of malicious computer hackers. Tenenbaum was arrested by law enforcement authorities for hacking computer systems belonging to The Pentagon, the United States Navy/Air Force, NASA, the Knesset, MIT, and other Israeli and American universities such as ComTEC and Dharma. Before he was sentenced, Tenenbaum served briefly in the Israel Defense Forces, but was released soon thereafter after he was involved in a traffic collision. In 2001, Tenenbaum ended up pleading guilty in court. Tenenbaum later received a sentence of 18 months in prison, but he only served eight months for his crimes due to the "Deri Law." Afterward, the FBI made a cybersecurity-related training video titled Solar Sunrise: Dawn of a New Threat that was distributed as part of a cybersecurity course.
