good we're in neo Matthew Broderick in wargames Michael Bolton and office space
if movies have taught us anything it's the computer hackers can do anything even hack
someone's brakes on their car hell Jeff Goldblum saved the entire planet with a MacBook wouldn't
you love to do that here's how hold onto your butts this is epic out to epic Al to
if you think this video is going to show you how to break into the Pentagon think again hacking
into computers you don't own or have explicit permission to do so is very illegal and you will
go to jail when most people think of a hacker they think of some sweaty nerd stealing your
files but that's not really accurate according to Eric Raymond noted hacker and author of the
new hackers dictionary a computer hacker is someone who is passionate about computers
and works with other computer hackers to forward computer innovation there are two kinds of hackers
white hat and black hat white hat hackers are the good guys who break into systems to learn about
vulnerabilities to make the internet a safer place black hat hackers break into computers
to steal money private documents or even just for kicks think of the two like the Jedi and the Sith
but with more neckbeards before you even touch a computer you need to learn to think like a
hacker in the new hacker dictionary Eric Raymond lays out the five principles of hackers one the
world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved that means you have to be curious
and always interested in learning new things - no problems should ever have to be solved twice
if someone's figured something out they should share the solution with the world three boredom
and drudgery are evil we should find ways to get computers to automate the boring stuff
for freedom is good information and knowledge are a human right everyone deserves access to
man number five attitude is no substitute for competence you got to walk the walk bud let's
get you some hacker skills to be a hacker you need to learn how to program there are hundreds
of programming languages all of them with their own pros and cons but the best languages to learn
are the ones most used in the hacker community see the Python and Perl there are plenty of books and
free guides on the internet to help you learn to program if you're still in school consider
signing up for a programming class cuz they have those there might even be a programming class at
your local community college that's worth checking out you're also gonna want to learn Linux Linux
is an operating system that's used on ninety six point five five percent of web servers in
the world so if you want to navigate the inner workings of the Internet you need to have Linux
on your computer instead of Windows or OSX there are tons of different flavors of Linux available
for free on the internet so try a bunch find the one that you like best the best way to do that
is to use your programming skills to work on open source projects open source software is software
whose code is made public for everyone to view and potentially change well-known open source
software includes be web browser Firefox which is awesome the blogging platform WordPress and the
previously mentioned Linux get your foot in the door developing open source software offered to
beta test the latest releases you'll start to make friends with hackers and eventually work
your way up to contributing code you can also meet people at the hacker convention DEFCON
DEFCON is held in Las Vegas every year and is attended by some of the top hackers computer
security experts and tech geeks around but how do people break into computer systems one of
the most popular ways to take down a website is a distributed denial of service attack this is
how Anonymous took down Scientology's website in January of 2008 how it works is a hacker
floods the web server with maps when the server is unable to process all these requests it goes
offline what makes a DDoS attack so popular is that there isn't a good defense against
it fortunately this kind of attack doesn't give an attacker access to the system another common
attack is DNS cache poisoning also known as DNS spoofing DNS cache poisoning relies on tricking
your computer into thinking it's connecting to one website but really it's connecting to the hackers
computer DNS cache poisoning was responsible for China's Great Firewall blocking computers
in the u.s. from using Facebook and Twitter in 2010 buffer overflow attacks were a common way
for a hacker to gain control of a system a buffer is a temporary storage space where programs keep
information if a buggy program allows a hacker to write information beyond the buffers limited
storage space it can cost programs to crash or respond in unexpected ways such as giving a hacker
total access to the system in 2001 the code red worm used a buffer overflow to infect hundreds
of thousands of windows machines one of the most successful ways to hack a computer has nothing to
do with computers at all social engineering preys on the biggest weak point in computer security
human beings in a 2003 study 90% of office workers told researchers their password in exchange for
a pen people are that stupid that's why many hackers put down the laptop and target human
beings as their point of entry can be done posing as tech support and asking for usernames and
passwords dumpster-diving looking for information even asking someone to hold the door open to
get into a secure area in the early 90s hacker kevin Mitnick used social engineering to steal
confidential files from Sun Microsystems Motorola and Silicon Graphics before the FBI finally caught
him in 1995 a simple but surprisingly effective method is guessing a weak password the infamous
2014 Sony hack was caused by hackers obtaining the password of an IT person which then let them
release the sophisticated malware called just over those Sony employees probably wish they
had a better password than password there are tons of other ways to compromised a computer
and hackers are constantly developing new exploits so it's important to stay Villages on top of the
latest in computer security that's how you can break into a computer but how can you protect
computers as a white hat hacker plenty of hackers use their knowledge of computers for the good of
the internet like Mudge who went on from the hacker group locked to overseas cybersecurity
for DARPA in 2010 you can start down this path with a career as a penetration tester pen testers
are paid by governments and corporations to break into their systems and then secure those
weaknesses these jobs can pay anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 dollars a year though you can't become
a pen tester with just hacking experience it's helpful to have a college degree and security
certifications as well alright guys follow these steps and there's no doubt you'll one day become
an expert computer hacker just keep your nose clean and your name off the FBI's most wanted
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