Hacking Involved Parties¶
links: SPA TOC - Hacking Basics - Index
Hacking involves different parties. A hacker and a system to be hacked.
Benign Hacker vs. Malicious Hacker
- A hacker can be good or bad
- Hackers like to play around and understand things
- Cracker/Attacker are malicious hackers
Critical Infrastructure
- Power grid
- Airport
- Harbour
- Railway
- Hospital
- Core router
- DNS root NS
- Cloud Provider
Attacks against those often target industrial control systems (ICS) such as supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems.
Inside Attacker
- Abuse of privileges
- Privilege escalation
- Done because of greed or revenge
Outside Attacker
- Targets: Theft, spam, DDoS, circumvent firewalls, botnet, ransomware
- Can attack from the internet, wireless network or via a physical break-in
- Done because of greed, damage reputation, self-defence (nation states) or fun
links: SPA TOC - Hacking Basics - Index