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Computer Hacking
By: Ethan Wolfe
What is Computer Hacking?
• Computer Hacking- The practice of modifying
computer hardware and software to
accomplish a goal outside of the creator’s
original purpose.
• To be accused of hacking, it must be proven
that someone gained access to the computer,
intending to hack it without permission.
Who?
• Anyone can be a computer hacker however,
computer hacking is most common in
teenagers and young adults.
• Computer hackers are often people who enjoy
learning more about how computers work and
consider computer hacking a form of art.
Different types of Hackers
• There are three different types of hackers:
– White hat hacker
• Breaks security for non-malicious purposes
– Black hat hacker
• People who go into a computer security system
without authorization, by using different types of
viruses.
• They use technology for vandalism (Credit card
Fraud/Identity theft)
– Grey hat hacker
• A mix of white and black hat hackers.
You know you are hacked when:
• There is a decline in your computer’s
performance level for no reason.
• Your file size has increased for no reason.
• There are modifications to files that are
unexplained.
• There are changes in network settings.
• There are popups that will not go away.
• Your software is not booting up.
Top 10 Hackers
Black Hat
• Jonathan James
• Adrian Lamo
• Kevin Mitnick
• Kevin Poulsen
• Robert Tappan Morris
White Hat
• Stephen Wozniak
• Tim Berners-Lee
• Linus Torvalds
• Richard Stallman
• Tsutomu Shimomura
Protection
• Click here to see how to protect yourself.
– How to protect yourself
Why I Chose this Topic
• One of the main reasons I chose this
topic was to learn more about what
computer hacking is. While researching
this topic, I learned about computer
hacking and also got tips on how to
keep my own computer protected from
hackers.
The Websites
• While researching this topic I have used
several different websites to inform people
about what computer hacking actually is. The
websites I used gave me plenty of information
about different topics; The definition of
hacking, who does it, the different types of
hackers, how you know if you have been
hacked, the top 10 hackers and how to protect
yourself from hackers. I have made the
websites URLs available for you to check them
out and see where I got my information.
Articles
• The articles I have chosen are recent
and provide actual cases where people
have been victims of computer
hacking. I chose these articles because
I thought they were very informative.
The writers of these articles seem to
know what they are talking about.
Question
• How many people get hacked each
year?
Work Cited
• http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-computer-hacking.htm
• http://ezinearticles.com/?Computer-Hacking&id=3369363 (Article 2011)
• http://www.buzzle.com/articles/what-is-computer-hacking.html (Article
2011)
• http://ezinearticles.com/?Have-You-Been-Hacked?---How-to-Tell-If-YourComputers-Been-Hacked&id=5140015 (Article 2011)
• http://www.itsecurity.com/features/top-10-famous-hackers-042407/
• http://compnetworking.about.com/od/networksecurityprivacy/f/what-ishacking.htm