Hackers
Hackers - new terrorists or...
What exactly is hacker? The definition sounds that hacker is a person who tries to get unauthorized access to something (in most of the cases someone’s private information or data). There are different reasons why those persons are hacking–one of the reasons is to get some profit, other one – to protest against someone or something. Also, there are people who consider, that hacking is some kind of entertainment. It may seem that all hackers are evil and they have only one purpose – to cause damage to someone’s personal data and make chaos at cyberspace, but that is a delusion. There is not only one kind of hackers.
If we are examining hacker classification, then there are more than 10 subtypes. The most popular types are black-hat hackers and white-hat hackers.
Black-hat hackers are previously mentioned as “evil hackers”. They are breaking into computer networks (getting unauthorized access) to steal or destroy important data or to make the network unusable to authorized users for personal gain. The breaking process is planed some time before. Planning starts with choosing the target. It can be anything, for example, State Revenue Service data base, bank system or any other company’s homepage which has had conflict situations with the hacker as a harmless person. When the target is chosen, black-hat hacker starts to collect information about it and explores the ways how to break into the system. In this part, there is the biggest possibility to be caught. In final part, hacker performs planned operations – causes damage, steals information, leaves rude messages and so on.
White-hat hackers break into computer systems as well as black-hat hackers, but they have completely different purposes. The main white-hat’s goal is to make the cyberspace safer. It sounds funny, but they break into computer systems to improve their security. Thereby, weaknesses of the security are found and can be fixed. In fact, large part of white-hat
What exactly is hacker? The definition sounds that hacker is a person who tries to get unauthorized access to something (in most of the cases someone’s private information or data). There are different reasons why those persons are hacking–one of the reasons is to get some profit, other one – to protest against someone or something. Also, there are people who consider, that hacking is some kind of entertainment. It may seem that all hackers are evil and they have only one purpose – to cause damage to someone’s personal data and make chaos at cyberspace, but that is a delusion. There is not only one kind of hackers.
If we are examining hacker classification, then there are more than 10 subtypes. The most popular types are black-hat hackers and white-hat hackers.
Black-hat hackers are previously mentioned as “evil hackers”. They are breaking into computer networks (getting unauthorized access) to steal or destroy important data or to make the network unusable to authorized users for personal gain. The breaking process is planed some time before. Planning starts with choosing the target. It can be anything, for example, State Revenue Service data base, bank system or any other company’s homepage which has had conflict situations with the hacker as a harmless person. When the target is chosen, black-hat hacker starts to collect information about it and explores the ways how to break into the system. In this part, there is the biggest possibility to be caught. In final part, hacker performs planned operations – causes damage, steals information, leaves rude messages and so on.
White-hat hackers break into computer systems as well as black-hat hackers, but they have completely different purposes. The main white-hat’s goal is to make the cyberspace safer. It sounds funny, but they break into computer systems to improve their security. Thereby, weaknesses of the security are found and can be fixed. In fact, large part of white-hat