Many targets of hacktivist groups are of more overtly political nature. LulzSec, in its short career attacked Infraguard a partnership between businesses and the FBI in the Us. It successfully attacked the US Senate and the CIA websites. It defaced the Infraguard website, damaged the senate by realeasing some “Secure” information and hit the CIA by taking its site down for over two hours. It also attacked the UK Nation health Service, but in this case It performed a public service, merely sending the NHS an email informing it of the security vulnerability it had found. There are many many more attacks of this nature, where groups have used this tool that they have to do good, not just evil like everyone assumes. Some countries have suffered hacking attacks to, a great example of this is in Portugal. The Bank of Portugal, and the Portuguese Parliament and the Ministry of Economy, Innovation and Development were attacked. This was a result to police brutality at public protests against austerity measures hold on November 24, 2011. One of the biggest and most famous hacktivist groups is a group called Anonymous. Anonymous has been credited for many attacks like the Stratefor Global Intelligence Service database hack where they took information of high profile clients and used the information to donate $1 million to charity. Anonymous has also done many attacks to make a political point to voice a opinion. In January of 2012 a bill in the U.S was announced called SOPA or the Stop Online Piracy Act, there were many forms or protest during that time but the most famous was when Anonymous used a tactic called DOS (Denial Of Service) and prevented any website traffic to the Pro-SOPA websites. There are many many more attacks like this bu...
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... trusts what they see and hear, and what they are told and does not think twice about it.
After reading this paper I feel that you will be more enlightened in the sense of not everything you see is good and sometimes the things that are not seen, that happened all around you all the time are not necessarily bad. Hacktivism is not all good nor is it all bad, but that goes with everything in this world. There is no such thing as something that is all good and all bad, there are two sides to everything this is the natural balance of the world. So remember always ask yourself in the what you see or hear is true, the information is at your finger tips and it is your job to find it because if you do not have the will to find it, you just be another person in the crowd that believe everything that they see or hear as the truth without putting any thought in to it.
Bauerlein’s piece does in fact “open the issue to some sober skepticism.” Bauerlein informs his intended audience of the invasion of seemingly purposeless technology into the everyday lives of teenagers and its consequence: loss of intelligence. However, the author lacks credibility and attempts to convince the audience by using emotionally loaded language and making generalizations without any facts to prove said statements. These tactics devalue any ideas the author originally meant to portray and cheapens this persuasive piece.
Hackers. You know them as gangly kids with radiation tans caused by too many late nights in front of a computer screen. Evil beings who have the power to wipe out your credit rating, cancel your cable TV, raise your insurance premiums, and raid your social security pension. Individuals who always avert their eyes and mumble under their breath about black helicopters and CIA transmissions. Paranoid, social deviants who could start World War III from the privacy of their bedrooms. Or so the mainstream media would have you believe.
Political machines were supported by continuing immigration, sustained by patronage, enlarged by wealth, and in the end were weeded out by reformers progress for public rather than private good, and caused by the need for public works and skilled workers, after the population of cities expanded.
Although, hackers can damage a person psychologically, emotionally, and financially, hacking almost never leads to direct physical violence. I believe that hacking is one of those unique tools of life that is considered good or bad depending on what it is being used for. I believe that anything that falls into the right hands and is used for a genuine purpose, can help progress society in a positive light even if the thing in question is deemed bad. For instance, in June of 2013, Edward Snowden, an American computer professional, leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) to the mainstream media in Hong Kong by using the helpfulness social engineering approach, which help him obtain confidential information without physically taken it from the person. Although this was detrimental for the US government’s reputation, simultaneously it was an event that lead to the improvement of security. In addition, if the US had hired Edward Snowden that could use his wrong doing for a right cause. We all have our thoughts about what is wrong and right, but in reality those who are in power of wealth determine what is deemed acceptable and unacceptable. With this in mind, I state the claim that from a creativity aspect no matter whether a product is deemed good or bad,
”Attacks implemented by cyber terrorists via information systems to (1) significantly interfere with the political, social or economic functioning of a critically important group or organization of a nation, or (2) induce physical violence and/or create panic. We define hackers as individuals who (1) wish to access/modify data, files, and resources without having the necessary authorization to do so, and/or (2) wish to block services to authorized users. Cyber terrorists are individuals or groups who utilize computing and networking technologies to terrorize. In this paper, we study the behaviors of two groups of hackers: cyber terrorists and common hackers" (Hua & Bapna 2013).
Historically, the Anonymous has been engaging in activities that qualifies the group as hacker group as opposed to troll organisation. The group began its operation on December 2010 by attacking the MasterCard for blocking the Wiki Leaks website donations (Coleman 1). In January 2011, the Anonymous group attack the Tunisian government website for using illegal means against protesters. In February...
Most people think hacking is a 21st century art, but in reality it has been around for a little more than a century. (Trigaux 1) Hacking has been relished by the American people as an act of terror when in actuality most hackers stand for the rights and liberties of the people. (Trigaux 2) There is several different types of hackers: The Black Hat, The White Hat, and The Grey Hat each designed with different morals and ethics. (Sterling 1) The “Black Hat” hackers portray the stereotypical identity that the American people are afraid of. (Moore 1) They normally hack for a personal gain or to intentionally place malicious software. (Moore 2) Following that we have a “White Hat” hacker who is
Many people through out the world use the internet in way you can’t imagine. Hacktivism being a virtual way to make a statement for the world to see is only the beginning. A recent demonstration of hacktivism followed the death of a Chinese airman when his jet fighter collided with a U.S. surveillance plane in April 2001. Chinese and American hacktivist from both countries hacked Web sites and used them as "blackboards" for their statements. This is only an example of what hacktivist are capable of. This in my opinion is not ethical. I do understand they are making a point but the way to make the point is all wrong.
Cyberterrorism is an act that is planned beforehand, which disturbs the natural functioning of electronic devices for political gain (Maggio, 2009). One important factor that determines whether an act is considered cyberterrorism is it has to hurt someone or something and cause enough damage to create fear (Maggio, 2009). Some examples of cyberterrorism are shutting down servers that control power grids hacking into a railroad track system to cause accidents. Hacktivists can sometimes be confused as cyberterrorists (Maggio, 2009). Generally, hacktivists do not cause as much damage as cyberterrorists but there are similarities (Maggio, 2009). Such as political motivations, and damaging property (Maggio, 2009).
Hacker subculture[1] is heavily dependent on technology. It has produced its own slang and various forms of unusual alphabet use, for example l33tspeak. Such things are usually seen as an especially silly aspect by the academic hacker subculture.[citation needed] In part due to this, the slangs of the two subcultures differ substantially.[citation needed] Political attitude usually includes views for freedom of information, freedom of speech, a right for anonymity and most have a strong opposition against copyright.[citation needed] Writing programs and performing other activities to support these views is referred to as hacktivism by the subculture. Some go as far as seeing illegal cracking ethically justified for this goal; the most common form is website defacement.[citation needed]
What is politics? Throughout history, people have participated in politics on many different levels. They may have participated through a direct democracy, in which they directly governed, or they may have participated through a representative democracy, in which they participated by electing representatives. As citizens’, people have participated in politics to attain the things they needed or wanted, the valued things. Participation in politics has been the way that people have a voice and change the things that directly affect their lives. Throughout the course of history, politics has been the competition of ideas; they decide who gets what, when, where and how.
There are different motives of hacker for hacking. Some wants to be famous while some of them want to make your life miserable. The most common motives of malicious hackers to hack are revenge,
Hackers are typically defined as individuals that gain unauthorized access to another person’s computer. Although that definition is rather specific it can be broadened to include other illegal activities such as “phishing”, which can be done on its own and may be separate from hacking. The hacker community is what is contended to be an “imagined community” meaning they occupy no singular geographic location, like members of a community like Rosedale, nor have they have any set guidelines for becoming a computer hacker. The hacker community is highly fluid, with members leaving and others taking their places all the time. Most hackers tend to either form close connections with just a few other community members or formalize groups and break off into subsets. Although the hacker community is criminogenic by virtue of being rallied around an illegal activity there is very little discourse about them threatening society, and when there is, it is often not highly regarded. This process becomes even more apparent when looking at the moral panic that surrounds young, black men. Racism is certainly a factor here as popular belief is that majority of the hacker community are young, white males but that does not go far enough in explaining the disparity. Either does simply arguing that hackers pose no real threat. A recent example is that of a hacker that gained control of the life support system of an Antarctic research facility which housed 56 scientists. Although the hacker was cut off before any damage could be done, it is easy to see how that scenario could have ended in tragedy. Furthermore, hackers have gained access to high level American government agencies, like the Pentagon, before so it is easy to see why this commun...
The term “hacker” is actually quite vague, because of that people have created terms to make it more specific that oddly revolve around hats. The color of the hat is what defines the hacker and these colors are black, white, gray, and blue. A black hat hacker is the stereotypical bad guy because they lie, cheat, and steal from the innocent for their own personal gain or amusement. Because white is the opposite of black, the white hat hackers are the good guys who are helpful to humanity because they expose the truth, help the cheated, and return the stolen to the innocent. The color gray is an equal mix of white and white, therefore the work done by a gray hat hacker is a 50/50 mix of good and bad. Gray hat hackers are the mercenaries of the internet because they usually work for the highest bidder. The blue hat hacker are more like the police of the internet, as in their actual job is to be a white hat hacker and help people. Usually blue hat hackers work for computer companies to write programs and improve security.
A cyberextortionist is someone who demands payment to stop an attack on an organization’s technology infrastructure. For example, these criminals threaten to expose confidential information, exploit a security flaw, or launch an attack that will compromise the organization’s network. A cyberterrorist is someone who uses the Internet or network to destroy or damage computers for political reasons. Cyberwarfare is an attack whose goal ranges from disabling a government’s computer network to crippling a country. Cyberterrorism and cyberwarfare usually require a team of highly skilled individuals, millions of dollars, and several years of planning (Zheng and Rutherford).