Know Your Adversary
”Who is the typical hacker?” Come on, be honest…the usual answer that I have heard is “a bright young male who is anti-social and a loner.” This is certainly the type that we usually catch, but there are other types, including the streetwise criminal elements that we met in earlier chapters. Realize that early on, the solvable cases (and the easy arrests) were the ones that left a calling card, such as their own IP addresses in the logs of the systems they had compromised. These hackers were asking to be caught.
Over time, we have improved our ability to catch the more devious hackers. And as we did, we have learned that they are more than just the script-kiddies (a term explained in more detail in Chapter 9) looking to satisfy ...
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