Hackers
It is the weekend you have nothing to do so you decide to play around on your computer .
You turn it and than start up , calling people with your modem , conneciting to another world
with people. This is all fine but what happens when you start getting into other people’s
computer files , then it becomes a crime and who are the criminals. To begin i will start
with hacking and hackers.
Hacking is the act of breaking into computers and network of other poeple’s with out
any permission . Hacking is like drugs or any other substance , its an addiction for the mind
and once started it is diffucult to stop . Hacker is a person who enjoy learning details of a
programming language or system , who tries to break into computer systems .There is two
types of hackers. On is the benign hackers , who likes get into his or her own computer and
understand how it works . The malicious hackers is the person who likes getting into other
people’s system . Black hat is used to discribe a hacker who break into a computer system
or network with malicious intent . Unlike white hat , the black hat takes advantage of the
break in perhaps destroying files or stealing data for some future purpose. White hat hackers
describes a hacker who identifies a security weakness in a computer system or network but
instead of taking malicious advantage of it . They will allow the system‘s owners to fix it
before can be taken advantage by others . But U.S law does not see differences between black
hat hacker and white hat hacker.
Many of the poeple in our society today often think that computer hackers are very smart
individuals who have special talents and abilities and enabiling them to crack passwords ,
send viruses , cancel your cable tv , raid your social security and crash computer systems.
Most people in our society do not spend the time to break into computer systems but all
studies indicate that hackers are genarlly young and not haave full time jobs or own property
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They have so much time and energy to break into computers. Hackers learn hacking from
reading different kind of computer books , they find many available tools on the internet ,
they spend so much time on the computer to learn the techniques of hacking . Some of the
hackers hack for to gain highest pre...
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...entality work and their lifestyle and also
goverment regulations against these smart indivuduals. Ýnformation security professions must
be more visible in a way that get children before the hackers community gets them . They get
together to teach parents and schools and also they must teach children about hacking and
hackers before somebody else does. And also goverment takes to find a way to stop hackers. If
the goverment does not hurry up they are going to get buried by hackers and when that
happens the world will not be a fun places to live in and aslo the cyberspace
WORKS CITED
Cert Coordination Center Computer Crime in today’s Society
Retrieved: November 10, 2000 from the World Wide Web:
http:// www.cert.org//
Choas Computer Club ( januvary 05 , 1995 ) Hacker Bible
The New Hackers Dictionary ( online education )
Retrieved November 10 , 2000 from the Worl Wide Web
A non-technical artical from business web zine about Distrbuted Denial Service Attacks:
http://www.cert.org/advisories /Ca-99-17-denial-of-service-tools.html
Tool from the FBI’s National Infrastructure Protection Center :
http://www.nipc.gov/
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The use of hacking to identify weaknesses in computer security has become an increasingly controversial issue in recent years. Awareness of this issue is important, because our ever increasing reliance on technology means that breaches in computer security have the potential to have wide-ranging and devastating consequences to society, worldwide. This essay will begin by clearly defining the term ‘hacking’ and will examine the type of people who hack and for what reasons. There will then follow a discussion of the moral argument on hacking before examining a few brief examples. The essay will then conclude by arguing against the use of hacking as a means of identifying weaknesses in computer security.
In conclusion Hackers started off as experts in programming and curious intellectuals advancing the limits of technology, but have evolved into a diverse world view. Additionally the shift from hardware onto software to the internet have boosted the increase in number of malicious hackers. With the emergence of new technologies so is the renewed efforts to combat the loopholes and help protect the public.
Why do hackers go through all the trouble to do what they do? Most people in society do not spend the time to break into computer systems. It does not have much appeal to them. Why then do certain people spend so much of their time and energy accomplishing these feats of technological wizardry? What is the cause that turns those mostly above-average intelligent people to pursue a criminal career, and destroy their otherwise very successful careers? Why do they commit these computer related crimes as an obsession?
The crime usually involves illegally gaining access to one or more computer systems to steal information, take them offline or both, either for malicious purposes or financial gain.”(2012) cybercriminals are groups of people uses their computer technology to commit. Hacker is the one of cyber criminals,but cybercriminals are not all hackers. cybercriminal breaking into computer systems involves hacking, so a cybercriminal can be considered hacker. Hargave noted “I should point out that even the term black hat can be a little misleading. There is an important series of conventions called Black Hat that is attended by security experts and students – many of them white hat hackers – to learn about the latest trends and tools in the computer security
Hacking was once a term that was used to describe someone with a great deal of
Lu, Polgar, Luo, & Cao (2010) hypothesized that computer security is not as much about the aspect of technology, instead it is more concerned with the mental and social science activities of the individuals who utilize computer technology. The authors supported this point of view by stating that computers only channel the transgressions of the individuals who exploit them. Xu, Hu, & Zhang (2013) attributed the upsurge of hackers to the popularity of the internet and the prevalence computer systems. The authors maintained that a notable portion of the hacking community is intelligent college-age individuals who begin hacking out of curiosity and end up exploiting their talents to commit cybercrime (Xu et al., 2013) Originally, hacking did not have a negative connotation. Deriving around the late 1950s, the expression hacker referred to an exceptionally adept programmer and convergent thinker that could formulate innovative solutions to overcome constraints of primitive computer systems (Bachmann, 2010; Lu et al., 2010).
There are a few elite in our technology-driven world that possess the unnatural ability to understand and wield the power of computers. To the media they are known as hackers, threats to computer security everywhere. To the underground they are known as "console cowboys", samurais, and the last defenders of free information. To the common man they are young teenage boys that break your computer and ruin your e-mail. Hackers are not criminals or mischievous kids with no purpose. They play an important role in our culture and are the fuel behind our technological revolution.
Hacking has been around since the birth of computers. When the term hacking was first used, its meaning was not that of how we think of it today. At the origins of computing, a hacker was considered to be just a "creative programmer (Baase, 2003)." Early forms of computer games as well as the beginnings of operating systems were discovered and created by these original hackers. These hackers plunged into systems as a way of an intellectual challenge and to aspire to gain knowledge (Baase, 2003). Kevin Mitnick believes he falls into this realm of hackers. Hackers in today's era are now looked upon as criminals who invade the privacy rights of individuals and have the ability to deliver worms/viruses. The differences are that hackers today have full intentions of delivering terrible viruses and worms. Mitnick was one of the most infamous hackers during the 1980's. He molded his hacking style around the stupidity of humans and his quest for intellectual knowledge. The ways in which he wiggled his way into computer systems extenuates many of the issues surrounding computer security and privacy.
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According to Wikipedia (2013b), hacker is someone who attack and seek into a computer system or network. They may motivated by different kinds of reason such as profit, to protest, to challenge a system, to grab information, etc. There are 3 types of hacker which can be classified into white hat, black hat, and grey hat. White hat hacker breaks the computer security for non-malicious reasons where they are actually to test their own security system. Black hat hacker violates the computer ethics and hacks system for their personal profit. Grey hacker hacks the computer system with the purpose of notifying the administrative of that system has a weak security system and provide them a better solution with a charge (Wikipedia, 2013b).
Black hats – These are unethical hackers who will destroy and damage the security environment with their criminal acts and make the environment unreliable
The term “hacker” has been in use since the early 1980’s due to mass media usage to describe computer criminals. The use of this term is vastly used by the general population and most are not aware that there are different meanings to the word. People within the computing community especially within the programming subculture emphasize the use of the term “crackers” for computer security intruders (cyber criminals). Early hackers rarely used their skills for financial gain as a motivation for their criminal behavior in that time cybercrime was infantile and largely seen as a practical joke or game by those who committed it. Bob Thomas created the first credited computer worm n...
Black hat: Black hat are the "hackers" which means they intentionally sent a malicious code into the computer system or network. black hat hackers are violate the rules of computer security. black hat hackers hack the system without authorization and destroy files or steal data for their purposes. black hat hackers will destroy secure network which is unusable access to user as a result authorize will get a downtime access of network.
The Art of exploring various security breaches is termed as Hacking.Computer Hackers have been around for so many years. Since the Internet became widely used in the World, We have started to hear more and more about hacking. Only a few Hackers, such as Kevin Mitnick, are well known.In a world of Black and White, it’s easy to describe the typical Hacker. A general outline of a typical Hacker is an Antisocial, Pimple-faced Teenage boy. But the Digital world has many types of Hackers.Hackers are human like the rest of us and are, therefore, unique individuals, so an exact profile is hard to outline.The best broad description of Hackers is that all Hackers aren’t equal. Each Hacker has Motives, Methods and Skills. But some general characteristics can help you understand them. Not all Hackers are Antisocial, PimplefacedTeenagers. Regardless, Hackers are curious about Knowing new things, Brave to take steps and they areoften very Sharp Minded..