HACKERS & HACKTIVISM

•SYED BILAL ALI (5803)•AHSAN KHAN GHORI (6121)

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS PRESENTATION

•LITTLE BIT ABOUT HACKING

•HACKERS

•TYPES

•HACKTIVISM

•SOME HACKERS GROUP

•INTRODUCTION

•CONCLUSION

HACKING

•Authorized/Unauthorized access of Network & Computer resources

•Activity within the computer programmer subculture

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HISTORY

1960sMIT AI LabKen Thompson invented UNIXPositive Meaning 1970s Dennis Ritchie invented C

1980sCyberspace coined414s arrestedTwo hacker groups formed

1990sNational Crackdown on hackersKevin Mitnick arrestedMicrosoft’s NT operating system

WORLD MOST FAMOUS HACKERS

stephen wozniak

Tsutomu ShimomuraAt the time of his arrest, he was the most-wanted computer criminal in the United States.

Kevin Mitnick

TYPES OF HACKERS

FAMOUS NOTORIOUS BLACK HAT HACKER

•Kevin Mitnick

•Gary McKinnon

•Jonathan James

George Hotz

•Adrian Lamo

•Michael Calce

•Kevin Poulsen

HACKTIVISM

Hacktivism is the act of hacking, or breaking into a computer system, for a politically or socially motivated purpose. The individual who performs an act of hacktivism is said to be a hacktivist.

A hacktivist uses the same tools and techniques as a hacker, but does so in order to disrupt services and bring attention to a political or social cause.

•Anonymous to Hacked Facebook on November 5th.

Anonymous is an extended group of hackers active on the Internet.

They defend freedom of expression. During the physical manifestations of the collective, the members usually wear a mask.

The mask symbolizes

- the anonymity

- the activism, it’s the mask of Guy Fawkes who tried to blow up the English Parliament in the 16th century because of disagreement with the

policy of King James the first.

WHY ANONYMOUS??

Anonymous is in the news these days because the community declares war on facebook.

It seems that this is a fake, however the actions of the group are large and extend over the planet.

The Anonymous organization of hackivists has leveled a new threat against Egypt’s largest political group, the Muslim Brotherhood, saying it would take down the group’s online capacity.

The announcement is titled “Operation Brotherhood Takedown.” And they said it was “engaged.”

•Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf facebook pages has been hacked. The cyber attack on the different facebook page associated with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf was made on 3rd February, 2012 (Friday) at 3:00 PM PST. Thousands of Tehreek-e-Insaf facebook supporters could not access the fan pages after repeated attempts.

•Mr.Badoo is one of most famous and old hacker of Pakistan in cyber space.He is arrested by FBI on June, 25, 2012 for hacking into PC of Andy who create any event of drawing Prophet Muhammad’s(SAW). He hacked Andy account and remove that event from facebook.

SOME EXAMPLES

RECENT ACTIVITY

Most Famous and Recent Hacker Groups In the World.

•We are Anonymous , We don’t forgive , we don’t forget , Expect us

•LulzSecurity commonly known as LulzSec,

•Chaos Computer Club, CCC

•Legion of Doom

•Masters of Deception, (The Gang that ruled the cyber space )

•milw0rm (Nuclear Hacker Group)

CONCLUSION

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