HACKING: The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Hacking by Alex Wagner

Author:Alex Wagner
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, pdf
Published: 2017-05-04T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11 – The level of hackers

When thinking about hackers don’t just fill your mind with notorious figures like underworld criminals. Taking down an entire network or a company can be super easy, and it might also just be a mistake, user error, an actual fault in the software, or a reaction of a connected system upgrade.

Mistake:

History has certainly taught us that a large network, even the largest network can be taken down for days, which may result in loss of billions of dollars in revenue because of a simple mistake.

When Mafiaboy was 15 years old he wanted to show off his skillset on the internet after joining a large Russian hacker organization. Any newbie joining this group (the group’s name will not be mentioned in this book), has to prove that he or she is capable of hacking.

What Mafiaboy did was to attack Yahoo using DoS (Denial of Service) by multiplying the sources of request -- today it’s known as DDoS Attack (Distributed Denial of Service) -- with the intension of slowing down or even taking down the website for a few seconds if possible.

This was only a test. Before he would use it in a real world scenario he wanted to make sure that there is indeed the possibility of causing a little damage.

It turned out to be the biggest hack at the time, taking down Yahoo for nearly an hour worldwide.

You could call it a mistake; there was no intension of financial gain. But, because it was intended to cause damage, it is regarded as a black hat act. Although it was only a test, it resulted in more than 4 billion dollars loss in revenue.

There are a countless number of stories that revolve around mistakes, but an example that came to mind was Mafiaboy.

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