****important****school Rpt****
I am currently doing a report for school about hacking, and i am hoping that many of the people here can help me with a few questions. I am supposed to do an interview, and im hoping that the questions i am going to asking for that, someone else who is an actual hacker can help me out.
1. How is our school protecting itself from hackers?
2. How do hackers get into a system without a username or password?
3. Have hackers ever been a problem for you?
4. Is hacking more of a problem today compared to five years ago? How is it different?
5. I read somewhere some hackers become network administrators, would you ever hire one and do you think that many admins have been hackers?
6. Do you think hackers do anything damaging to a system, and aren’t as big of problem makers as people think?
7. Are the majority of hacker’s teenagers?
8. Are there any benefits for hacking?
9. Do many hackers use viruses to give themselves a back door into a system? Do many of them work?
10. Is there anything else that may be important I haven’t asked you?
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Originally posted by LunchBox
I am currently doing a report for school about hacking, and i am hoping that many of the people here can help me with a few questions. I am supposed to do an interview, and im hoping that the questions i am going to asking for that, someone else who is an actual hacker can help me out.
Well, I'm no uberhacker or anything, but I do know a bit about networking, so I'll answer what questions I can.
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2. How do hackers get into a system without a username or password?
It depends on the circumstances. If you're looking at server breakins, I would think that they're most frequently done by exploiting buffer overflows.
If it's a person's home PC, chances are much better that a trojan of some description was introduced or some similar form of social engineering.
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3. Have hackers ever been a problem for you?
Outside of providing some entertaining logs, no. ;)
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5. I read somewhere some hackers become network administrators, would you ever hire one and do you think that many admins have been hackers?
This kind of question is probably best answered on an individual basis rather than on a broad basis. There are hackers who hack because they love programming, networking, etc., and they like to test themselves. This kind of love of technology is the kind of hacker I would want working for me, and IMO pretty well defines what I consider a hacker.
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10. Is there anything else that may be important I haven’t asked you?
Keep in mind that if you target 'hackers' and not script kiddies, there is a level of technical skill required to meet that level. It's not as simple as 'run this canned app that I downloaded'. Maybe some questions like 'why do you hack?', and perhaps 'do you consider yourself a blackhat or a whitehat?'.
Things along those lines to give you an idea of the motivations of the people who are hacking, it would probably help you understand hackers a bit better.
As I mentioned earlier, hackers to me are the driven by the same force that drives electrical engineers to learn to use a HAM radio and make their own circuit boards, and drives mechanics to tinker with their cars. It's all about learning, as I see it.
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by LunchBox
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Have hackers ever been a problem for you?
No, Im not a system admin so I need'nt worry bout anything but damn script kiddie's. They have made me look at my firewall so much on IRC I began to think I was hallucinating besides that simple security measures have eradicated there presence.
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Is hacking more of a problem today compared to five years ago? How is it different?
Of course hacking today is a vast culture compared to say before that damn film 'Hackers' came out and everybody decided to call themselves Zero-Cool and hax0r their freinds Windoze Boxes using their demo copy of Red-Hat Linux. Hacking is more accessable these days, its easier with programs that do all the work and a lot more help available than when real hackers were around.
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Do you think hackers do anything damaging to a system, and aren’t as big of problem makers as people think?
Hackers dont damage, crackers do. People should be aware of crackers but aware also that they are different than hackers who have created the internet the the crackers are now attempting to destroy.
They are a problem I suppose, defacement and also the Virus writers who are neither hackers nor crackers but a law to themselves.
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Are the majority of hacker’s teenagers?
All script kiddies are well kiddies or teens. Now Im not sayin all teens are script kiddies as Im a teen myself. To honestly call yourself a real hacker you would need to have a lot of computer experiance thus meaning many true hackers are out of their teens.
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Are there any benefits for hacking?
Real hackers are programmers, programming is beneficial therefore hacking can be beneficial.
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]Do many hackers use viruses to give themselves a back door into a system? Do many of them work?
They can use trojans which are not virii that create a backdoor in a system and many crackers use trojans to regain entry instead of re-cracking a system if you catch my jist.
They are simple programs and they work everyday quite effectively.
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Is there anything else that may be important I haven’t asked you?
Well basically I have to say Hacking is different than Cracking, it is important you distuingish in order to avoid flaming and so on. There is a lot involved in hacking despite what the media portrays as mindless kiddies so dont think these questions satisfy an opinion of hacking.
Ok, answered what I could hope it helps.
Ennis.
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I'm not a super-hacker with hardened typing skills of steel or anything, but just my <insert low amount of currency here>... Also, I would really recommend looking up anything you find in the jargon dictionary that is maintained here at Antionline.
- How is our school protecting itself from hackers?
Well, I can't say much about your school in particular, but most of the time, the main ways crackers can get in either involve an unpatched program, or through simple laziness or mistakes on the part of the system's administrator. - How do hackers get into a system without a username or password?
Do you mean a computer they are sitting at, or into a website or something over the web? Either they find a place where the system adminstrator has forgotten to require one, or they find a program that has a known bug in it, and may be able to use that bug in order to trick the computer into running a few commands because of the bug. (Buffer Overflow) - Have hackers ever been a problem for you?
Not me personally. - I read somewhere some hackers become network administrators, would you ever hire one and do you think that many admins have been hackers?
Well, I think some commercial businesses tried it once, and the guy they hired posted about their vulnerability all over the internet, instead of telling them so they could fix it. If you DO hire someone who has a history of either being accused or convicted of computer crime (a cracker), be wary of how much to trust them. - Do you think hackers do anything damaging to a system, and aren’t as big of problem makers as people think?
Well, 'Hackers' don't do damage, that's the way a lot of people on the net are trying to change the connotations to the term. 'Crackers' are usually the term given to 'Criminal-Hackers' by the not-so-illegal computer professionals. - Are the majority of hacker’s teenagers?
Well, the majority of the 'Script Kiddies' are. I really need a venn diagram to explain this, but most script kiddies are teens, but that doesn't necessarily mean that all teens are script kiddies. - Are there any benefits for hacking?
Well, crawling around the guts of software and hardware gives you a definite feeling for the place. It's useful to have a wide background and experience in computers. - Do many hackers use viruses to give themselves a back door into a system? Do many of them work?
That's a very popular script-kiddie tactic. It doesn't mean crackers won't do it occasionally, but the main draw is to the script kiddie crowd, because they can do all sorts of nefarious things without the effort or knowledge which should accompany it, and all with a nice point-and-click interface. Sometimes the budding script kiddies won't show their friends, because they can seem more mysterious and powerful if their friends don't see how easy it is.