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    HACKING

    AREAS

    Hacking may refer to:


     Computer security hacking

     Hacking taxicab

     Joke thievery

     Raising a bird of prey (in artificial nest)

     Illegal methods used in football


    COMPUTER HACKING
    What’s on computers in internet?
    • Banking, Taxes, Medical Records, Personal details
    • Cookies! Browser History!
    • Password file??

    How do they get in?


    • Viruses/Trojans
    • Spyware
    • Keyloggers
    • Remote Control
    TERMINOLOGY USED
     Hacker:
    • A proficient computer user
    • A computer user engaged in illegal activities
     Cracker:
    A computer user engaged in illegal acts.
     Software pirate:
    Copies software illegally
     Phreaker:
    A telephone services thief
    Hackers Have a Subculture!

     Conferences
     Newsletters and news groups
     Fairly close in age (teens to low 20s)
     Shared experiences, shared roots, and
    shared values
     Own myths, heroes, villains, folk epics, in-
    jokes, taboos, and dreams!
    HACKER GOALS
     Corporate  Databases
    espionage
     Info warfare
     Software theft
     Web site defacing  Hacktivism
     ISPs  Computer time
    • DDOS  Theft of intellectual
    • Access
    property
     Credit cards
    • Riding the Bullet
     Computer control
    • Home computers
    • Business
    Two Reputed Types to Exist
    “White Hats” “Black Hats”
     Refrain from
    Malicious
    damage
     Help to fix/patch
    Release viruses,
    security problems exploit security
     Report “black holes
    hats” Steal assets
     Free testing and
    “Gain root”
    security
    assurance.
    WHO IS HACKER?
    Hacker(computer intruder) is a person who
    delights in having an intimate understanding of the
    internal workings of a system, computers and
    computer networks in particular.
     Script Kiddie

     Black hat hacker

     White hat hacker

     Grey hat hacker

     Blue hat hacker

     Academic hacker
    HACKER HISTORY

     First appeared at 1960s


     Hacking done mostly for fun
     Hackers started speaking to each other via
    the ARPANET
     A worldwide hackers’ community
    RECENT ATTACKS AND HACKS
     Hackers changed a Department of Justice
    web site to display a swastika and the text
    to read, “the U. S. Department of
    Injustice.”
     “Coolio” (?) shut down e-commerce sites
    by bombarding them with thousands of
    DOS messages
     Titan Rain and Moonlight Maze attacks on
    American computer systems.
    CORPORATE HACKING
     For a report, employees of CNET, Inc.
    broke into web sites for Booksite and
    Upside and obtained:
    • Credit card lists
    • E-mail lists
    • Subscribers
     Published an article after security was
    fixed
     Appropriate for demonstration purposes?
    STUDIES
     The Pentagon estimates that 65% of its
    30,000 computers can be hacked
    • Is attacked 1,000 times a day
     95% of all attacks are successful!
     5% are detected
     .025% are reported up the chain
    COMMERCIAL STUDIES

     Intrusion Detection, Inc. study of Fortune


    1000 companies
    • 23% of users did not have passwords or had
    guessable passwords
    • 14% of accounts were inactive
    • 27% of sites had first line security detection
    systems turned off
    COMMERCIAL STUDIES
     National Computer Security Ass’n
    • A consultant was asked to study security
    problems at a large company
    • In three days, he acquired 300 MB of sensitive
    data
    • Simply asked executives about the company,
    web searches
    SOLUTIONS
    • Never click on links from unknown senders
    • Practice safe browsing
    • Use good passwords!
    • Never do sensitive transactions on Library,
    Hotel, and other unknown PCs
    • Don’t make your Laptop be an AP (No Ad-
    Hoc!)
    • Secure your wireless – Encrypt! Address
    Filter!
    • Make sure you’re on the right network!
    • Backup your data – Securely!
    ISSUES

     Are current laws adequate to Cyberspace?


     Are hackers to be thanked or punished?
     Should the acquisition and distribution of
    information that disrupts others be illegal?
     How much surveillance is too much?

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