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Hacking: what does it mean?

“Based on the Germanic word meaning “to cut in pieces,” “hacking” is the act of compiling information (or any kind of information, really) in a novel way that results in something interesting or useful. The term has traditionally been associated with a positive connotation in the context of computers—Steve Wozniak was an exceptional hacker, one of Apple’s original founders.

In spite of this, the term “hacker” is increasingly used to describe someone who exploits a weakness or vulnerability in a computer system in order to gain access. In order to gain access to a system, gather information, or access more computers on a network, hackers exploit vulnerabilities.

Hacks can be categorized into two types.

No matter what shade a hacker’s hat wears, hacking strategies fall into two categories.

Category 1: Zero-Day

In the first category of hacks, zero-day vulnerabilities are exploits that take advantage of never-before-seen vulnerabilities. They are the most dangerous to your computer because they are not patched. Security teams often don’t know how to respond to these attacks, and they aren’t even aware of a compromised system until it is too late. High-skilled, scary-smart hackers are committing many of these attacks.

These attacks are most often “saved” for something that offers a high ROI. It is most often multinational companies or systems that are used for national security that are targeted by zero-day attacks.

An exploit known as Heartbleed was exploited on Linux servers in 2014. The majority of public internet servers are Linux servers, which account for nearly 96.6%.

There is no way of knowing how many people knew about and used Heartbleed before its vulnerabilities became public three years ago.

Category 2: Everything Else

Today, most hacks are based on code that was written by someone else and released into the public domain. As a result of their lack of programming experience, script kiddies are often referred to as this type of hacker.

Here’s how a script kiddie works:

A malicious script or code is downloaded
Aimed at someone or something on the internet they don’t like
Clicks “run”
Updated computers are fairly easy to defend against these hacks.

“The most common way to create ‘done before’ attacks is to watch for Windows security updates, notice which vulnerabilities are being patched, and then attack servers that have not been updated on time by exploiting those vulnerabilities.” -Nick Turner, Chief Information Security Officer, Echosec Systems.

A security organization is very good at pushing out security updates as soon as a hack is discovered. Scripts can be found online by kids as well as security professionals.