BISM2100 Presentation

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BISM2100 Presentation

• The History of Hackers and
• How they do what they do
• By Morgan Finch

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Hacker History Timeline

• 1960s The first computer hackers at MIT
• 1970s The first phone hacker using a Captain
  Crunch Whistle!
• 1980s Hacker Groups are formed- Legion of Doom?

• 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
• 1990s High Profile Cases and new Tools for and
  against hackers
• 2000 DoS Attacks

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Who are they?

• Hacking used to be clever techniques of doing
  anything on the computer and creating computer
  shortcuts to make tasks easier. It was an
  exploration of a new world of computers.
• Now, hacking is the term that describes computer
  criminals who break into and/or harm computers.
• Some people prefer the term Cracker instead of
  using the term Hacker, referring to someone who
  breaks security on a system.

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Hacker Tools and Tricks

• Denial of Service Attacks These attacks lock out
  rightful users from their own websites/networks
  and steal information.
• DNS Spoofing Hackers alter DNS entries on a
  server to take the browser to a different site.
  The hackers create fake sites pretending to be
  the site the browser wanted.
• Viruses and Worms These are self-replicating
  programs that spread throughout an entire network
  to destruct programs and copy itself over and
  over without needing anything like a file to do
  this.
• Web Page Defacements Situations where hackers
  gain access to computer files and alter or
  replace web pages.

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More Hacker Tools and Tricks

• Trojan Horse Programs Programs wherehackers
  disguise a Trojan as another program, game, etc.
  to trick the user into installing it onto their
  computer, thus giving the hacker access to
  everything.
• Social Engineering This is a term for misleading
  people to give out information about how to login
  to something or pretending to forget a password
  to steal information.
• Packet Sniffers These are devices that intercept
  packets of information traveling in a network
  that can be stolen.

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Hacking in 2007

• Myspace and Facebook are both two sites that have
  had numerous accounts of hacking because of
  people putting too much information, and then
  hackers have easy access to this information.
  Hackers see any interests a person has and than
  uses this to create some sort of attack.
• Fake Online Banking Sites Hackers are creating
  these fake websites that look like the real
  thing, but are operated by the hacker himself. An
  example of a fake page is bankofamerica-online.co
  m the real page is www.bankofamerica.com/onlineba
  nking.

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References

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  ack.history.idg/
• Das, A CybercrimePiercing the darkness.
  Retrieved May 23, 2007, from History of Hacking
  Web site http//library.thinkquest.org/04oct/0046
  0/team.html
• Hatch, B, Lee, J Hackers vs Crackers. Retrieved
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  com/about/hackers_vs_crackers.html.
• Hypponen, M (2007).The Problem Internet Security
  Masters of Their Domain. Foreign Policy. 160,
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• (2001). Frontlinehackers. Retrieved May 23,
  2007, from A hacker's Tools of the Trade Web
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• Raisbeck, Fiona (2006, December 13). Hackers
  target MySpace in new cyber war. SC Magazine in
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