NATS 1505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cybercrime, Grey Hat
23 Aug 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Immediately report any false information, such as applications for credit that you did not initiate, or purchases on your credit cards that you did not make. Types of attackers: attackers are individuals or groups who attempt to exploit vulnerability for personal or financial gain, attackers are interested in everything, from credit cards to product designs and anything with value. Amateurs: these people are sometimes called script kiddies, they are usually attackers with little or no skill, often using existing tools or instructions found on the internet to launch attacks. Some of them are just curious, while others are trying to demonstrate their skills and cause harm: they may be using basic tools, but the results can still be devastating. Some gray hat hackers publish the facts about the vulnerability on the internet so that other attackers can exploit it. State-sponsored attackers gather intelligence or commit sabotage on behalf of their government specific goals that are beneficial to their government.
