Hackers

Hackers wreaking havoc is when somebody uses deception to obtain goods, services, money on networks or the internet etc. It is a serious problem, and premiercallcentre.co.uk is here to help your call centre with security issues. The face of hacking changes as technology advances. It is our job to help you take steps in prevention of hackers from occurring in the first place. When it does occur, premiercallcentre.co.uk intends to be sure that it's dealt with it effectively.

The reality, however, is that hackers are a very diverse bunch, a group simultaneously blamed with causing billions of dollars in damages as well as credited with the development of the World Wide Web and the founding of major tech companies. In this article, we test the theory that truth is better than fiction by introducing you to ten of the most famous hackers, both nefarious and heroic, to let you decide for yourself.

Black Hat Crackers

The Internet abounds with hackers, known as crackers or "black hats," who work to exploit computer systems. They are the ones you've seen on the news being hauled away for cybercrimes. Some of them do it for fun and curiosity, while others are looking for personal gain. In this section we profile five of the most famous and interesting "black hat" hackers.

White Hat Hackers

Hackers that use their skills for good are classified as "white hat." These white hats often work as certified "Ethical Hackers," hired by companies to test the integrity of their systems. Others operate without company permission by bending but not breaking laws and in the process have created some really cool stuff. In this section we profile five white hat hackers and the technologies they have developed.

How Hackers Snatch Real-Time Security ID Numbers

The world’s savviest hackers are on to the “real-time Web” and using it to devilish effect. The real-time Web is the fire hose of information coming from services like Twitter. The latest generation of Trojans — nasty little programs that hacking gangs use to burrow onto your computer — sends a Twitter-like stream of updates about everything you do back to their controllers, many of whom, researchers say, are in Eastern Europe. Trojans used to just accumulate secret diaries of your Web surfing and periodically sent the results on to the hacker.

The security world first spotted these new attacks last year. By going real time, hackers now can get around some of the roadblocks that companies have put in their way. Most significantly, they are now undeterred by systems that create temporary passwords, such as RSA’s SecurID system, which involves a small gadget that displays a six-digit number that changes every minute based on a complex formula.

If your computer is infected, the Trojan zaps your temporary password back to the waiting hacker who immediately uses it to log onto your account. Sometimes, the hacker logs on from his own computer, probably using tricks to hide its location. Other times, the Trojan allows the hacker to control your computer, opening a browser session that you can’t see.

When people visit Web sites that have been taken over by the hackers, the software is surreptitiously downloaded onto their machines. Clampi has an unusual feature that can take advantage of vulnerability in Windows and spread itself to all of the computers on a corporate network. Investigators found that each of those machines, in turn, was programmed to notice when their users visited any of 4,600 specified Web pages, including banks, brokerages and other sorts of sites.

Then Clampi starts sending a real-time stream of the user’s actions using a modified version of standard instant messaging software. The hackers log into the user’s bank account, quickly copying the one-time password if one is used. They start initiating wire transfers to accomplices (mules is the term of art) who send the funds on to the crooks. Sometimes they have even set up “mules” or fake employees who earn fat salaries by direct deposit. One victim of Clampi was Slack Auto Parts in Gainesville, Ga., which lost $75,000 to the scam, according to a post in the Washington Post’s Security Fix blog. Clampi appears to be operated by a single gang, and that the hackers speak Russian because that language is used in the computer code. Other similar Trojans, including ZeuS and Silentbanker, are being sold to many different groups of cyber crooks.

Does this all mean that all those password gizmos are a waste of money? Not exactly, they still protect against less sophisticated forms of password phishing, not to mention people just looking over your shoulder as you log onto your computer. Moreover, if you can keep your computer clean of malware by avoiding suspicious e-mail attachments and Internet downloads, you are safer.

But there is nonetheless a race to find an even more secure way to keep the big bucks safe. One way is what is called two-channel authentication, using something other than the computer — most likely a cell phone — as part of the log-on procedure. That’s a good idea, but you know the hackers are already working out how they will attack those phones as well.

There are different types of hacking and may refer to:

Computing and technology

• Hacker (computer security), someone involved in computer security
• Hacker (programmer subculture), a programmer subculture originating in the US academia in the 1960s, now primarily notable for its involvement in the free software/open source movement
• Hacker (hobbyist), an enthusiastic home computer hobbyist

Similar meanings in other fields are:

• Media hacker, someone who uses the media in new ways
• Reality hacking, similar to a computer hacker, but hacks the "real world"
• Wetware hacker, one who experiments with biological materials

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