First, a short myth: A 15-year-old boy sits behind a glowing black monitor, typing furiously. The green text streams across his screen like a waterfall.
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His nervousness escalates dramatically as he sends rapid-fire commands to the strained computer. Suddenly, he lets out a triumphant laugh and proceeds to steal money. Such is the stereotypical view of a hacker. Yet, there’s so much more to this fine art than Hollywood or the media describes. Hackers are varied creatures and include these 7 types:. Script Kiddie – Script Kiddies normally don’t care about hacking (if they did, they’d be Green Hats.
They copy code and use it for a virus or an SQLi or something else. Script Kiddies will never hack for themselves; they’ll just download overused software (LOIC or Metasploit, for example) and watch a YouTube video on how to use it.
A common Script Kiddie attack is DoSing or DDoSing (Denial of Service and Distributed Denial of Service), in which they flood an IP with so much information it collapses under the strain. This attack is frequently used by the “hacker” group Anonymous, which doesn’t help anyone’s reputation. White Hat – Also known as ethical hackers, White Hat hackers are the good guys of the hacker world. They’ll help you remove a virus or PenTest a company. Most White Hat hackers hold a college degree in IT security or computer science and must be certified to pursue a career in hacking.
The most popular certification is the CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) from the EC-Council. Black Hat – Also known as crackers, these are the men and women you hear about in the news. They find banks or other companies with weak security and steal money or credit card information. The surprising truth about their methods of attack is that they often use common hacking practices they learned early on. Gray Hat – Nothing is ever just black or white; the same is true in the world of hacking. Gray Hat hackers don’t steal money or information (although, sometimes they deface a website or two), yet they don’t help people for good (but, they could if they wanted to).
These hackers comprise most of the hacking world, even though Black Hat hackers garner most (if not all) of the media’s attention. Green Hat – These are the hacker “n00bz,” but unlike Script Kiddies, they care about hacking and strive to become full-blown hackers. They’re often flamed by the hacker community for asking many basic questions. When their questions are answered, they’ll listen with the intent and curiosity of a child listening to family stories. Red Hat – These are the vigilantes of the hacker world. They’re like White Hats in that they halt Black Hats, but these folks are downright SCARY to those who have ever tried so much as PenTest.
Instead of reporting the malicious hacker, they shut him/her down by uploading viruses, DoSing and accessing his/her computer to destroy it from the inside out. They leverage multiple aggressive methods that might force a cracker to need a new computer. Blue Hat – If a Script Kiddie took revenge, he/she might become a Blue Hat. Blue Hat hackers will seek vengeance on those who’ve them angry.
Most Blue Hats are n00bz, but like the Script Kiddies, they have no desire to learn. There you have it. Thanks for reading.
I appreciate the attempt at clarification here but I feel like a few things here are a bit misleading. As far as i can remember, the label “cracker” was never synonymous with black hat hackers. In fact, I remember that being a title for those with roots embedded within the crypto/piracy realm.
Red hats and Blue hats sounds completely made up, and i’m not sure where this has spawned from. About a year ago i heard of the ‘green hat’ which just sounds very cringy and laughable, but this is now the second time I’ve seen it referenced. Black/Gray/White hat hackers spawn from the cowboy movies, where the intentions of the characters where foreshadowed by the cowboy’s hat color I’m not sure what this movement is to incorporate Red, Blue and Green hats but I think the push forward to adopt these new terms is a bit much.
Archived from groups: comp.dcom.voice-over-ip,comp.dcom.sys.cisco The Cisco Press book 'Developing Cisco IP Phone Services' has an emulator included on a CD with it, or try using an eval copy of IPBlue's softphone which does emulate a 7960. Wrote in message news:[email protected]. On Mon, 3 May 2004 22:12:46 -0400, 'Majortom' wrote: You can look for the Cisco IP SoftPhone. You might need a CCO account though. Softphone doesn;t emulate the 7960 services.
Do a google search. At one time I downloaded a simulator, but don't recall where I got it from.
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It's wasn't that good as I recall, but there is probably a better version.
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