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HowStuffWorks "How Hackers Work" Hackers were visionaries who could see new ways to use computers, creating programs that no one else could conceive. They were the pioneers of the computer industry, building everything from small applications to operating systems. Soon, the term hacker had a new meaning -- a person using computers to explore a network to which he or she didn't belong. computer.howstuffworks.com /hacker.htm   (689 words)

[No title] Hackers want their motivations and ethics to be viewed as legitimate, or at least understood, instead of being simply written off as devious teenagers who have nothing better to do than crash every available computer. Hackers' innate knowledge of this manifests itself in various forms: in anarchist collectives, in anti- establishment collective action (Meyer and Thomas, 1990), and the fact that corporate and state computers are most often the intended targets of hackers. However, hackers often express a wish to work with an established institution, such as the police, for both personal gain (less chance of being prosecuted yourself) and for the good of the movement (hackers feel that police should be spending their time and resources going after the real computer criminals, such as corporate embezzlers). www.eff.org /Net_culture/Hackers/hacker_with_cause.paper   (6829 words)

Free as in Freedom: Appendix B   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Computer hackers, on the other hand, did their work amid a scientific field biased toward collaboration and the rewarding of innovation. Hackers and "official" computer scientists weren't always the best of allies, but in the rapid evolution of the field, the two species of computer programmer evolved a cooperative-some might say symbiotic-relationship. To be a hacker, a person had to do more than write interesting software; a person had to belong to the hacker "culture" and honor its traditions the same way a medieval wine maker might pledge membership to a vintners' guild. www.oreilly.com /openbook/freedom/appb.html   (1912 words)

Hackers and Painters Computer science is a grab bag of tenuously related areas thrown together by an accident of history, like Yugoslavia. Maybe it would be good for hackers to act more like painters, and regularly start over from scratch, instead of continuing to work for years on one project, and trying to incorporate all their later ideas as revisions. If a hacker were a mere implementor, turning a spec into code, then he could just work his way through it from one end to the other like someone digging a ditch. www.paulgraham.com /hp.html   (5359 words)

Hacker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For some, "hacker" has a negative connotation and refers to a person who "hacks" or uses kludges to accomplish programming tasks that are ugly, inelegant, and inefficient. In computer security, a hacker is a person who specializes in work with the security mechanisms for computer and network systems. Hackers are sometimes portrayed as mysterious and strange. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hacker   (2423 words)

What is a Hacker? A ``hacker'' is the opposite: someone who never goes to class, who in fact sleeps all day, and who spends the night pursuing recreational activities rather than studying. A ``computer hacker,'' then, is someone who lives and breathes computers, who knows all about computers, who can get a computer to do anything. Note: This is an appendix to "Computer Hacking and Ethics," a position paper I wrote for the ACM Select Panel on Hacking in 1985. www.cs.berkeley.edu /~bh/hacker.html   (1414 words)

Computer Forensics Online The thrust of the article deals with the collection and use of computer evidence to apprehend the hacker and, once apprehended, to either prosecute or defend. Practitioners need to be particularly vigilant to maintain their own computers and keep abreast of the latest developments in the law to avoid potential malpractice. Computer software is an extremely important asset that contributes significantly to the overall value of a company. www.shk-dplc.com /cfo   (864 words)

US Attorneys' Bulletin: Tracking a Computer Hacker Records, called computer logs, provide useful and often critical clues that a trained agent or computer specialist can use as the starting point to trace the route taken from computer to computer through the worldwide web, to discover the one computer out of the millions in the world from which an intrusion was conducted. Unless the hacker alters the victim's logs once he or she gains unauthorized access, the victim's logs should list the precise computer address from which unauthorized access was gained. A seized computer may be examined by a forensic computer examiner to determine what evidence of the crime exists on the computer. www.usdoj.gov /criminal/cybercrime/usamay2001_2.htm   (2686 words)

What/Who are Hackers? Computer Hacker Security Hacking By the end of 2000, the computer virus was widely viewed as the leading security threat confronting organizations by entering the network via e-mail. is a program or algorithm that replicates itself over a computer network and usually performs malicious actions, such as using up the computer's resources and possibly shutting the system down. Hackers are often intrigued by the challenge of simply breaking into a server. www.softrim.com /Hackers.asp   (332 words)

Hackers to Face Tougher Sentences Washingtonpost.com - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Hackers will face up to a 25 percent increase in their sentences if they hijack e-mail accounts or steal personal data -- including financial and medical records and digital photographs. Hackers who electronically break into bank accounts can be sentenced based on how much money is in the account, even if they don't take any of it. Most computer criminals are well educated, have little or no criminal history, commit their crimes on the job and often are seeking financial gain, according to Sentencing Commission documents. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0NTQ/is_2003_Oct_2/ai_108454057   (797 words)

Great Hackers When I think about the great hackers I know, one thing they have in common is the extreme difficulty of making them work on anything they don't want to. Perhaps great hackers can load a large amount of context into their head, so that when they look at a line of code, they see not just that line but the whole program around it. To the extent there is a secret handshake among good hackers, it's when they know one another well enough to express opinions that would get them stoned to death by the general public. www.paulgraham.com /gh.html   (4894 words)

Cracking the hackers' code - smh.com.au Yet Grant Bayley, organiser of Sydney's 2600 group, a gathering of security enthusiasts, says that while the number of hackers has increased, the percentage of highly skilled hackers has stayed the same, suggesting their total numbers are up as well. More sophisticated hackers may be more difficult to defend against, in part because their motivations may be complex. In a jury trial, the legal defence team of the British hacker "Wandii" showed the hacker was obsessed with computers and the intellectual challenge of beating them. www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/08/20/1029114072039.html   (1763 words)

Pro-Youth Pages: Hackers film analysis For example, when the hacker heroes break into a computer, the film-makers give us exciting visuals to represent what is going on in the computer, visuals that no one in real life would see. They are able to challenge police and their older hacker nemesis without being rescued by adults or out-of-the-blue miracles. The whole segment is one laugh after another as the hackers have the cop arrested, declared dead, and subjected to obscene phone calls after they plant his phone number in a porno magazine. www.geocities.com /hatredsucks/hackers.html   (657 words)

Business: Hackers: third in a series Computer hackers "Mudge," left, and "Weld Pond" testify on Capitol Hill on May 19, 1998 before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on computer hacking. Ethical hackers, especially those backed by big corporate and consulting names, regularly charge $20,000 to $200,000, depending on the depth of their attack and the size of the business client's network. The hacker is a founding member of Boston's elite hacker group called L0pht, which alerts appropriate agencies when they find gaping holes in computer security. www.sptimes.com /Business/61698/Hackers__third_in_a_s.html   (1549 words)

Hackers, personal firewalls, intrusion detection and antihacker software - Kaspersky Lab A hacker is a person who has the innate ability to use or exploit an object in its existing state (in this case a computer's Operating System) to be used for something other than its original purpose. Due to the overabundance of PC crimes today the term hacker is more commonly associated with a person who uses his or her computer to maliciously attack another unsuspecting person's computer. Phishers are considered hackers because they use social-engineering to trick and deceive their targets. usa.kaspersky.com /threats/hackers.php   (278 words)

Firewall Locks Out Hackers Hackers use sophisticated software that checks through a range of IP addresses to see if any one is using that address at that particular moment in time. Hackers have many ways to see if there is an IP address in use. As soon as the hacker detects you, you are in a whole lot of trouble. www.horizon-computer.org /firewall_locks_out_hackers.htm   (694 words)

Hacker (computer security) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hacker in a security context refers to a type of computer hacker who is involved in computer security/insecurity and is able to exploit systems or gain unauthorized access through skills, tactics and detailed knowledge. Hacker may mean simply a person with mastery of computers; however the mass media most often uses "hacker" as synonymous with a (usually criminal) computer intruder. Firewall (networking) In computing, a firewall is a piece of hardware and/or software which functions in a networked environment to prevent some communications forbidden by the security policy, analogous to the function of firewalls in building construction. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hacker_(computer_security)   (2052 words)

CNN - Pentagon 'at war' with computer hackers - March 5, 1999 Pentagon computers are under a "coordinated, organized" attack from hackers, according to Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pennsylvania, who held a classified hearing on the problem. Classified Air Force computer systems at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, came under attack on January 7 and 8 from a number of locations around the world, sources told CNN, but they were detected and stopped by newly developed Defense Department systems. A 20-year-old Israeli hacker, who said he broke into Pentagon computers out of hatred for organizations, was charged in Jerusalem last month with conspiracy and harming computer systems. www.cnn.com /TECH/computing/9903/05/pentagon.hackers/index.html   (652 words)

North Korea has 600 computer hackers, South Korea claims Communist North Korea is believed to have trained up to 600 computer hackers to launch cyberattacks against countries such as the United States and South Korea, according to South Korea's Defense Ministry. Computers are a rarity and Internet access is almost nonexistent for most people in the impoverished North Korea, but the Defense Ministry said in a report submitted to the National Assembly's national defense committee that it believes North Korea's intelligence warfare capabilities have already reached the level of those in advanced countries. Computer experts in North Korea are trained in a five-year university course, and computer hackers are selected from these experts, it said. www.securityfocus.com /news/9649   (737 words)

Personal Computer Hackers, Computer Hackers, Juvenile Computer Hackers, Network Computer Hackers Computer Hackers are NOT the real problem with the security in today's electronic commerce. Computer Hackers By Definition are people who test the security of systems for knoledgable gain. Computer hackers by default are people who enjoy entering systems in which are claimed to be secure. www.hackerscatalog.com /Services/TECH_Notes/twentynine.html   (945 words)

[No title] Kevin is known as "the most high-profiled computer criminal and responsible for more havoc in the computer world today."(1) He considered this a fun and easy task. If a computer virus or an invading hacker deletes your files, or either one corrupts your files, the easiest way to restore your computer may be to reformat the hard drive(s) and then copy files from a recent backup. Computer hackers have been around since the early '60s and probably before then. www.lycos.com /info/computer-hacking.html   (255 words)

ComputerUser.com - Industry Views - Security for all   (Site not responding. Last check: ) There are an estimated 58,000 computer viruses in existence worldwide, and they are multiplying at a disturbing rate, with 400 to 500 new viruses emerging each month. While the threat of hackers and viruses remains real, there are a number of simple, highly effective steps that small-business owners and network administrators can take to protect their systems against cyber-sabotage (not to mention sleep better at night). When an individual is no longer employed by the company, immediately eliminate his or her access to the network by deleting the username and password. www.computeruser.com /articles/2308,5,88,1,0801,04.html   (1412 words)

Technology and Pleasure The popular image of the computer hacker seems to be part compulsive programmer preferring the company of computers to people, and part criminal mastermind using his or her technical prowess to perpetrate anti-social acts. The "original" hackers were computer professionals who, in the mid-sixties, adopted the word "hack" as a synonym for computer work, and particularly for computer work executed with a certain level of craftsmanship. One of the things that characterized the early hackers, was their almost wholesale rejection of Taylorist principles and practices, and their continued insistence that computer work was an art and a craft and that quality and excellence in computer work had to be rooted in artistic expression and craftsmanship and not in regulations. firstmonday.org /issues/issue4_2/gisle   (9531 words)

Computer hackers and how they work - Helium The term hacker historically was use to refer to anyone who used computers and had an interest and knowledge of how they worked and how to make them do other tasks. Yes, there are those out there who would use your computer for their own aims, but they are not only master criminals, or terrorists but also government security agencies who feel that they have the right to place malware upon citizens' computers in the name of national security. Financial hackers are more likely to go for the softer targets such as the home user to gain access to their cash. www.helium.com /items/563155-computer-hackers-and-how-they-work   (794 words)

SPACE.com -- Keeping Watch for Interstellar Computer Viruses Microsoft may have to fork up big bounty bucks trying to unearth future hackers, particularly when they are light years away on distant worlds. The so-called "SETI Hacker" hypothesis, Carrigan argues, is an issue of interstellar discourse that should be taken seriously. "The possibility of a malevolent SETI Hacker signal must be assessed and protective measures should be put in place prior to the receipt of any real signals," Carrigan advises. www.space.com /scienceastronomy/space_hackers_031111.html   (1109 words)

VARBusiness | Presidential Advisor Encourages Computer Hackers Richard Clarke, President Bush's computer security advisor, told hackers at the Black Hat conference that most security holes in software are not found by the software maker. Hackers commonly share their findings with others in their community through e-mail lists or Web sites. Clarke says hackers shouldn't help criminals by showing how to exploit a programming bug before the software maker has a chance to fix the problem by issuing a patch, or fix. www.varbusiness.com /sections/news/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=36677   (354 words)

Computer Intruders - Hackers-IL We do not approve of such activities as intruding into computers to which one has no permission to enter, much less trying to sabotage them. Computer intruders should be called "computer intruders" or "crackers". P.S. Having said that, the computer security discussions are certainly welcome in our forum and this wiki. www.hackers.org.il /mediawiki/index.php/Computer_Intruders   (83 words)

Stalking a Computer Unless hackers have a specific reason for breaking into a particular computer, they can accomplish their goals on any people who make them undefended machine and don’t need to waste time trying to break into one that’s unsafe. Hackers often target corporate computers to gain access to their large storage space, which can be perfect for stashing pirated programs or movies. By linking bot- infected computers together, a hacker can create an army of "zombies" or "drones." With a single command, they can be instructed to send a flood of data to another computer that will shut it down (a denial of service attack), or send out massive amounts of junk email (spam). www.windowsitlibrary.com /Content/1845/08/1.html   (5895 words)

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