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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