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TYPES O F HAC KER S:

concentrated on helping organisations

and individuals to be more secure

a conflicted hacker, doing both good

and bad deeds

focused on dangerous

actions and retrieval of data

EXAMPLES O F DA N GER S:

EAVESDROPPING SOFTWAREprogramme listening to private conversations

ACCORDI N G TO OXFORD DI CT I ONARY A ‘HACKE R’ I S :

A person who uses computers to gain unauthorised access to data

An enthusiastic and skilful computer programmer or user

DENIAL OF SERVICEthe overloading of servers with

large numbers of requests

KEYLOGGERprogramme which records keystrokes

VIRUSES self-replicating, malicious programmes which spread easily

PHISHINGmimicking a well-known

and trusted company or institution

TROJANS malware disguised to look like legitimate software

WHITE-HAT HACKER GREY–HAT HACKER BLACK–HAT HACKER