Hacktivism: a label associated with movement of people that use their hacking/cracking know-how to carry out their personal view of justice.
Purpose: The purpose of this blog is to identify who fits within the hacktivist label, and how do they affect professional/personal internet interactions?
Today's Topic: Give a simple overview of a hacktivist tool
As
odd as it may seem, hacktivist use the same tactics that hackers use. For
example, if the hacktivists want to limit the ability of a targets external
resources, then they may use DDOS as a method. DDOS is the ability to exhaust
that resources ability to provide its service to anyone. The best way to break
this down is to imagine Facebook. Everyone is able to create an account and
upload pictures and videos to their feed. That uploaded data is stored on
servers that Facebooks uses to not only store at rest, but also publish when
viewers want to see it. If folks were to write programs and successfully deploy
a way to create accounts and upload a ton of data while viewing that data, then
they may crash Facebook's background servers. Crashing those servers then
hinders the actual legitimate user base from getting on Facebook. Since we are
just customers that enjoy the free services that Facebook gets, if their
servers are down, then they will not get any revenue from advertisements.
Coming full circle, the hacktivist group then just made a successfully attack
at Facebook's wallet.
Future Items of Interest:
-What are the repercussions of being a hacktivist?
-What seem to be the most common exploits or attacks hackers and hacktivists use?
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