Rafael Núñez (hacker)

Rafael Núñez (also known as RaFa) is a Venezuelan computer security professional and hacker.

He was a member of the World of Hell in 2001, was included in the 2002 book The Hacker Diaries: Confessions of Teenage Hackers. and accused of hacking into a United States Air Force computer and intentionally defacing and damaging the Defense Information Systems Agency in 2001. Dan Verton, writing for ComputerWorld in 2002, reported RaFa also held unauthorized privileged access to design documents for experimental next-generation spacecraft from NASA, along with other confidential operational documents. RaFa subsequently published these documents on the Web; according to Verton, RaFa "didn't understand the sensitivity of the information he had..."

Four years after the 2001 event Núñez was arrested when he visited the US He pled guilty to the charges, but spent only a few months in jail before being deported.

Rafa has been interviewed by numerous industry trade journals, including The New York Times, Znet Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, Businessweek, among many others; numerous talks globally as an information security expert. He used to be a Host in a podcast technology show called "Percepción 3.0" at one of the most visited news website in Latin America Noticias24.com

Currently Rafael Núñez is a partner in CleanPerception an online reputation management business, and FundaSitio.org who create websites for foundations in Latin America.

External links

• CleanPerception
• Counter Pedophilia Investigative Unit (cpiu.us).
• Unidad Investigativa contra la Pedofilia (cpiu.es).
• FundaSitio (fundasitio.org).
• The Hacker Diaries's Book.