Gray Hat Chapter Summary

The word hacking, usually associated with information technology, is a term used for the development of creative solutions for a problem by someone in a non-professional environment. With the introduction of personal computers and the internet, anyone could create solutions to problems in computer science. This led to the emergence of “hacker culture”, leading to the decentralization of computer industry (Hicks, 2014).

Jimmy has been on 3 operations, to interrogate his former friend, one of them on which he found very uncomfortable. At first, he thought this was a fantastic opportunity. When Mr. Johnson, the school principal, sent a call slip for him, he thought he was in trouble. After all, there was 2 uniformed officers with vests that read “FBI” on the back. The meeting was casual, and the principal explained about the program, and that he was chosen to become a member. He gladly agreed and stamped his finger on a document. His mom was also their, and she congratulated him on taking this opportunity.

“Goldman Sachs should have built better sensors. I can thank the NSA for my backup plan.” Mannherbot remarked, as he watched himself pass by on a security camera. He can’t stop running though, because everyone around is still looking for him - and even more so now that the security systems are disabled throughout the city.

Half past two o’clock came knocking and he could already feel butterflies building in his stomach, it was a tick of nervousness that made him want to get up and move around, made him feel nauseated and unsettled. He took several deep breaths hoping it would calm his nerves and then he tried his best to block his anxiety out of his mind as he began at the starting point, the beginning sequence, which would lead to his hidden program being able to take over all forms of communication which would access—No! Break into—New America’s most secured networks.

The thesis of the paper is ISIS/ISIL’ romancing of vulnerable Western women and luring them into their caliphate through new technology (e.g., social media). The majority of the women being recruited are those who share the ideology that Muslim’s are being systematically oppressed. Then there is the fascination of an Arabian Knights tale of being married to a jihadi warrior; add to this, this fantasy of a worldly romance, being a devout wife and mother is appealing to idealistic young girls who thirst for adventure. Those who are pariahs in Western society find this change appealing; thus, the idea of creating and living in a new society, a utopia, is a dream come true for many of these young women/girls. However, as with most organizations, there is a dark side, even darker than Fifty Shades of Grey. These women and young girls eventually come to realize that they are no more than sex and reproductive slaves. The brutal reality of this “existence” has left a trail of broken hearts among the relatives of these young women/girls in their native countries. A once perceived beneficent purpose has turned into a hellish nightmare for many of these women/girls who are now trapped in a world far from home.

Albert Gonzalez mainly grew up in south Florida. He became interested in computers when he welcomed his first one at the age of twelve. Albert was obsessed with his computer, and his grades started dropping in school. He merely went to a community college for half a semester then dropped out. Albert moved to New York and got a job with a company called dot-com. The I.T. Tech company called Siemens had Albert working for them as well, but the company moved to Pennsylvania and he didn’t go with them. Albert was jobless and set about taking drugs. A great reason everyone trusted Albert is he worked with the secret service to help catch hackers on the black market. The only part was that Albert was working both sides. When he worked for the service he was taught material he never knew about. The material would help him turn a better hacker to still earn money off the black market for himself. “Once a hacker, always a hacker” the best mode to

William Gibson's 1984 novel "Neuromancer" provides an intriguing look into a world dominated by computers, a place where individuals who are proficient in operating them are capable of virtually everything that a typical hacker would dream about doing. Case, the novel's protagonist, is a troubled young man who feels that it is pointless to try and be 'normal' and that hacking is one of the

In the beginning of the age of the modern computer, programmers worked around the clock, creating code for their employers for use in proprietary computer systems. These elite programmers enjoyed challenging one another and frequently enjoyed stretching modern systems to their limits. These programmers became know as "hackers" for their talents at dissecting and working around difficult problems, often searching for the most elegant or most efficient solution possible. Unlike the vision of hackers as portrayed by the 1990's media., these hackers refrained from any illegal activities. The best hackers viewed such things as breaking into computer systems as immature and childish. The media derives their definition of a hacker

On a cold December night, Carter Jones was driving at blazing speed to work, because if he didn’t make it on time his boss, Mr. Cookie would fire him. When Carter pulled into his reserved parking spot he let out a humongous yell, because he had forgotten to lock his house door. “Should I go and lock my house and risk losing my job, or should I pray and hope that no one tries to break in,” he said to himself. Carter decided to pray and hope that no one broke into his house. He got to the stairs with about 2 minutes to spare. Carter ran all the way up three levels and made it into his office chair just as Mr. Cookie walked past. “Whew,” Carter said as he brushed aside the sweat that was rolling down his chin.

Hackers are one of the main causes of the privacy and security issue on the internet. To understand how to lessen the threat of hackers on the internet one must first know how a person becomes a hacker. While there may be “no consistent, widely accepted theories or theoretical frameworks in the literature as to why hackers emerge and evolve, and therefore no clear, effective guidance on what to do to prevent talented computer-savvy young people from becoming hackers or criminals” (Zengchuan, Qing, and Chenchong 64). With the information that is available now, it can be determined what groups of people are most likely to become hackers. “Computer hackers start out not as delinquents or as social outcasts but often as talented students,

A few decades ago, the term ‘hacker’ and ‘hacking’ were known only to a relatively small number of people, mainly those in the technically specialized world of computing. Today they have become ‘common knowledge’, something with which most people are familiar, if only through hearsay and exposure to mass media and popular culture accounts. Due to this pop culture element there is often misunderstanding among masses who identify every other kind of cybercrime as ‘hacking’. Improper representation of hackers and hacking activities in movies, TV shows, and sometimes in mainstream media is responsible for this misunderstanding. The public discourse on hacking appears to evoke fear and fascination in equal measure. At one hand, media exaggerate degree of threat or danger that the activity carries. On the other, they exhibit considerable ambivalence to produce a kind of admiration.

Computer hacking is most common among teenagers and young adults, although there are many older hackers as well. Many hackers are true technology buffs who enjoy learning more about how computers work and consider computer hacking an “art” form. They often enjoy programming and have expert-level skills in one particular

Why me? The simple fact of having an unprotected computer network, law enforcement not up to par, and a challenge is all a hacker needs to cash in; sometimes personal, but for the most part, just business as usual. Hackers once admired in the 1960’s are now dangerous and a threat to big box corporations, small businesses, and personal computer users. Data breaches are the most lucrative business for hackers still. An example of data breaching is Computer Memory Racking or also known as memory consumption or memory corruption. Basically, an adversary gains unauthorized access to a computer or computer’s network through a network’s hole to deploy malicious code and gain access to the volatile data stored in memory.

In today’s society, where everything is done online, around the world governments and businesses are losing billions upon billions of dollars every day. People ranging anywhere from teenagers to adults make cyber-crime the most threatening crime, just googling the term “hacking” can create an instant hacker. In the past, the worst thing that could happen on the Internet was getting a virus and the computer crashing. These days, it’s become much, much worse. The hackers that were once just bored 13year olds holed up in their bedrooms, playing with computers and testing their abilities are now

Law enforcement in United States will not forgive any criminals and will be pursued in near future. Albert Gonzalez sent a malware software named “packet sniffer” to a friend in Ukraine and that person forwarded this software to Suvorov. Albert Gonzalez breached into the system of Dave and Busters restaurants. And then Suvorov got access to Dave and Buster’s restaurants to steal credit card information through packet sniffer. For this Albert Gonzalez prisoned for 20 years in March 2010. The extensive variety of the culprits conveys to light something that those in the digital knowledge domain have known for quite a while: Criminal programmers are a piece of an extremely develop and multi-billion dollar industry that stretches far and wide. No association is insusceptible to the danger.