Flashcards: Hacking (computer security)

The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) is a group of computer hackers which first surfaced online in 2011 to support the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

PLA Unit 61398 (Chinese: 61398部队, Pinyin: 61398 bùduì) is the Military Unit Cover Designator (MUCD) of a People's Liberation Army advanced persistent threat unit that has been alleged to be a source of Chinese computer hacking attacks.

Firesheep is an extension for the Firefox web browser that uses a packet sniffer to intercept unencrypted cookies from websites such as Facebook and Twitter.

China is the world's second-largest economy, and a nuclear weapons state with the world's second-largest defence budget.

As a major developed economy, the United States is highly dependent on the Internet and therefore greatly exposed to cyberwarfare attacks, yet at the same time has very significant capabilities in both defense and power projection thanks to its advanced technology and large military budget.

Hacktivism or hactivism (a portmanteau of hack and activism) is the subversive use of computers and computer networks to promote a political agenda.

BBS: The Documentary (commonly referred to as BBS Documentary) is a 3-disc, 8-episode documentary about the subculture born from the creation of the bulletin board system (BBS) filmed by computer historian Jason Scott Sadofsky of textfiles.

Hackers Wanted is an unreleased American documentary film.

Markus Hess, a German citizen, is best known for his endeavours as a hacker in the late 1980s.

Hector Xavier Monsegur (born 1983) known also by the online pseudonym Sabu (pronounced Sə'buː, Sæ'buː), is an American computer hacker and co-founder of the hacking group LulzSec.

GeekPwn (simplified Chinese: 极棒; traditional Chinese: 極棒; pinyin: ji bang) is a hacking contest.

Elie Bursztein leads the anti-abuse research team at Google.

File binders are utility software that allow a user to "bind" multiple files together resulting in a single executable.

Daniel Domscheit-Berg (né Berg; born 1978), previously known under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt, is a German technology activist.

Mustafa Al-Bassam (born January 1995), alias Tflow, is a former black hat hacker who was one of the six core members of LulzSec during its 50-day spree of attacks in the spring of 2011.

The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage is a 1989 book written by Clifford Stoll.

The Hacker Wars is a 2014 documentary film about hacktivism in the United States, directed by Vivien Lesnik Weisman.

"Cyber Anakin" is a hacktivist who is a teen as of 2016, and has claimed to breach databases of several Russian websites allegedly to avenge the MH17 plane crash.

In the computer security context, a security hacker is someone who seeks and exploits weaknesses in a computer system or computer network.

Albert Gonzalez (born 1981) is an American computer hacker and computer criminal who is accused of masterminding the combined credit card theft and subsequent reselling of more than 170 million card and ATM numbers from 2005 through 2007—the biggest such fraud in history.

The Network Crack Program Hacker Group (NCPH Group) is a Chinese hacker group based out of Zigong in Sichuan Province.

Doxing (from dox, abbreviation of documents), or doxxing, is the Internet-based practice of researching and broadcasting private or identifiable information (especially personally identifiable information) about an individual or organization.

Zone-H is an archive of defaced websites.

Operation Anti-Security, also referred to as Operation AntiSec or #AntiSec, is a series of hacking attacks performed by members of hacking group LulzSec, the group Anonymous, and others inspired by the announcement of the operation.

Milw0rm is a group of "hacktivists" best known for penetrating the computers of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai, the primary nuclear research facility of India, on June 3, 1998.

The Secret History of Hacking is a 2001 documentary film that focuses on phreaking, computer hacking and social engineering occurring from the 1970s through to the 1990s.

Loyd Blankenship (born 1965), better known by his pseudonym The Mentor, is a well-known computer hacker and writer.

Abbassa Malik (Arabic: عباسة ماليك) (born June 3, 1989), also known as Malikpc, is an Algerian grey hat hacker who was threatened with death by the Israeli Mossad on February 1, 2012 after hacking several Israeli sites.

Cameron LaCroix, aka camo, cam0, camZero, cmuNNY, is an American computer hacker best known for the hacking of Paris Hilton's cellular phone and accessing LexisNexis.

Decocidio #ϴis an anonymous, autonomous collective of hacktivists which is part of Earth First!, a radical environmental protest organisation, and adheres to Climate Justice Action.

Dennis Lee Montgomery (born 1953) is an American software designer and former medical technician who sold federal officials computer programs he claimed would decode secret Al Qaeda messages hidden in Al Jazeera broadcasts and identify terrorists based on predator drone videos.

HackThisSite.org, commonly referred to as HTS, is an online hacking and security website founded by Jeremy Hammond.

Hackers Are People Too is a 2008 documentary film about the hacker community, written and directed by Ashley Shwartau.

Hackers in Wonderland is a 2000 documentary film, produced and directed by Russell Barnes, about hackers in the United Kingdom.