What Do Hackers Want?

As the preceding section mentioned, hackers approach their craft from a number of motivations. Their goals might differ, but they all have the goal of gaining power and control of a computer system or network. Many of their intermediate steps are therefore the same.

The computer attack and infiltration process is organized around the following steps:

  1. Get access to the system

  2. Get privileges

  3. Get comfortable

  4. Get ready for the next attack

These steps are discussed in upcoming sections. It is worth noting that, for coordinated and well-organized attacks on computer networks, a separate reconnaissance phase often precedes these steps. You'll learn some of these reconnaissance techniques in the section "Attacking a Network," later in this hour.



Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours
Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours (4th Edition)
ISBN: 0672329964
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 259
Authors: Joe Casad

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