HACKING

   what is a hacker?

First, what is a hacker?

The term "hacker" can mean two different things:

1. Someone who is very good at computer programming, networking, or other related computer functions and loves to share their knowledge with other people
2. Someone who uses their expert computer skills and knowledge to gain unauthorized access to systems, corporations, governments, or networks.
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5.   What most people think of when they hear the term "hacker"
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   The word "hacker" does not bring the best of thoughts to most people’s minds. The popular definition of a hacker is someone who intentionally breaks into systems or networks to illegally procure information or infuse chaos into a network for the express purpose of control. Hackers are not usually associated with doing good deeds; in fact, the term "hacker" is often synonymous with "criminal" to the public. These are black-hat hackers or crackers, the folks we hear about on the news creating chaos and pulling down systems. They maliciously enter secure networks and exploit flaws for their own personal (and usually malicious) gratification

Examples of famous hackers

Black Hat

Anonymous: A loosely associated group of hackers from all over the world, with meeting points on various online message boards and social networking forums. They are most known for their efforts to encourage civil disobedience and/or unrest through defamation and defacement of various websites, denial of service attacks, and the online publishing of personal information.

Jonathan James: Infamous for hacking into the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and stealing software code.

Adrian Lamo: Known for infiltrating several high-level organizations' networks, including Yahoo, the New York Times, and Microsoft to exploit security flaws.

Kevin Mitnick: Convicted for multiple criminal computer crimes after evading authorities on an extremely well-publicized chase for two and a half years. After serving time in federal prison for his actions, Mitnick founded a cyber security firm to help businesses and organizations keep their networks safe.

White Hat

Tim Berners-Lee: Best known for inventing the World Wide Web, HTML, and the URLsystem.

Vinton Cerf: Known as the "father of the Internet", Cerf has been highly instrumental in creating the Internet and the Web as we use it today.

Dan Kaminsky: Highly respected security expert best known for his role in uncovering theSony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal.

Ken Thompson: Co-created UNIX, an operating system, and the C programming language.

Donald Knuth: One of the most influential people in the field of computer programming and theoretical computer science.

Larry Wall: Creator of PERL, a high level programming language that can be used for a wide variety of tasks.

How secure are you?

As the world’s most famous hacker, Kevin Mitnick has been the subject of countless news, movies and magazine articles published throughout the world. He has made guest appearances on numerous television and radio programs.

Kevin's unparalleled experience leads the Global Ghost Team™ in testing the security of the world’s leading corporations and governments.

We maintain a 100 percent successful track record of being able to penetrate the security of any system we are paid to hack into using a combination of technical exploits and social engineering.

Why do organizations need us to do this?

Penetration Testing

Mitnick is the best in the world for finding holes before the real bad guys do.

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