Hacking (computer security)

thumb|upright=1.35|Participants in the Coding da Vinci hackathon, [[Berlin, Germany, April 26–27, 2014|alt=A group of people working on laptop computers at a common table]]

An HTTP cookie is a small block of data created by a web server while a user is browsing a website and placed on the user's computer or other device by the user's web browser. Cookies are placed on the device used to access a website, and more than one cookie may be placed on a user's device during a session.

thumb|Cyberwarfare specialists of the United States Army's 782nd Military Intelligence Battalion (Cyber) supporting the [[3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division during a training exercise in 2019]]

thumb|A fictional example of a doxing post on social media. In this case, the victim's personal name and address are shown.

type of computer security vulnerability typically found in web applications

computer hacker who hacks ethically

security weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system's information assurance

someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network

thumbnail|upright=1.2|Anarchist hacker village at a Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) conference, 2018 Hacktivism (or hactivism; a portmanteau of hack and activism) is the use of computer-based techniques such as hacking as a form of civil disobedience to promote a political agenda or social change. A form of Internet activism with roots in hacker culture and hacker ethics, its ends are often related to free speech, human rights, or freedom of information movements.

cyberattack in which an attacker sends spoofed ARP messages onto a LAN to associate the attacker's MAC address with the IP address of another host (e.g. the default gateway), causing any traffic for that IP address to be sent to the attacker instead

pejorative term for an unskilled hacker who uses scripts instead of coding on their own

computer hacker with malicious intent

manifesto from 1986 by Loyd Blankenship

stealthy threat actor

malicious situation created or unwanted manner provided data from a Domain Name Server (DNS)

deals offered for reporting software bugs

scandal

thumb|upright=1.35|In a clickjacking attack, the user is presented with a false interface, where their input is applied to something they cannot see. Clickjacking (classified as a user interface redress attack or UI redressing) is a malicious technique of tricking a user into clicking on something different from what the user perceives, thus potentially revealing confidential information or allowing others to take control of their computer while clicking on seemingly innocuous objects, including web pages.

subculture of individuals

act of obtaining secrets and information using methods on the Internet, networks or individual computers

may refer to an individual who acts in a variety of IT-related areas; hacker

term

cyberattack in which corrupt DNS data is introduced into the DNS resolver's cache, causing the name server to return an incorrect result record, e.g. an IP address, diverting traffic to the attacker

technique for changing a factory-assigned Media Access Control (MAC) address of a network interface on a networked device

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malicious web-based shell-like interface

certification provided by the International Council of E-Commerce Consultants

computer security exercise in which "flags" are hidden in purposefully vulnerable programs or websites

computer security concept, to prevent cross-site scripting and related attacks

malware package

thumb|right Bluebugging is a form of Bluetooth attack often caused by a lack of awareness. It was developed after the onset of bluejacking and bluesnarfing. Similar to bluesnarfing, bluebugging accesses and uses all phone features but is limited by the transmitting power of class 2 Bluetooth radios, normally capping its range at 10–15 meters. However, the operational range can be increased with the use of a directional antenna.

using direct observation techniques, such as looking over someone's shoulder, to get information

Chinese cyberweapon attack tool

In computer security, camfecting is the process of attempting to hack into a person's webcam and activate it without the webcam owner's permission. The remotely activated webcam can be used to watch anything within the webcam's field of vision, sometimes including the webcam owner themselves. Camfecting is most often carried out by infecting the victim's computer with a virus that can provide the hacker access to their webcam. This attack is specifically targeted at the victim's webcam, and hence the name camfecting, a portmanteau of the words camera and infecting.

Firesheep was an extension for the Firefox web browser to hijack sessions. It used a packet sniffer to intercept unencrypted session cookies from websites such as Facebook and Twitter. The plugin eavesdropped on Wi-Fi communications, listening for session cookies. When it detected a session cookie, the tool used this cookie to obtain the identity belonging to that session. The collected identities (victims) are displayed in a side bar in Firefox. By clicking on a victim's name, the victim's session is taken over by the attacker.

cybercrime

1986 United States cybersecurity law

cyber-security challenge and mind sport in hacking

web-based malware tactic

ethical hacking certification by Offensive Security

malicious and white hacking

Wikimedia list article

Man-in-the-browser (MITB, MitB, MIB, MiB), a form of Internet threat related to man-in-the-middle (MITM), is a proxy Trojan horse that infects a web browser by taking advantage of vulnerabilities in browser security to modify web pages, modify transaction content or insert additional transactions, all in a covert fashion invisible to both the user and host web application. A MitB attack will be successful irrespective of whether security mechanisms such as SSL/PKI and/or two- or three-factor authentication solutions are in place. A MitB attack may be countered by using out-of-band transaction

BlueHat (or Blue Hat or Blue-Hat) is a term used to refer to outside computer security consulting firms that are employed to bug test a system prior to its launch, looking for exploits so they can be closed. Their role involves searching for weaknesses or security gaps that could be exploited, and their aim is to rectify and close these potential vulnerabilities prior to a product or system launch. In particular, Microsoft uses the term to refer to the computer security professionals they invited to find the vulnerability of their products, such as Windows.

Zone-H is an online archive dedicated to collecting and publishing records of defaced websites. Founded on March 2, 2002, and based in Estonia, the platform has become a widely recognized database for tracking defacements and incidents of cyber vandalism. A WHOIS lookup shows the domain was created on February 14, 2002.

group of experts assigned to investigate and/or solve technical or systemic problems