THE TOOLS: UN-ETHICAL HACKER - ULTIMATE BEGINNER HANDBOOK TO COMPUTER HACKING ESSENTIALS: LEARN ETHICAL HACKING, PENETRATION TESTING AND BASIC SECURITY: 50+ FREE RESOURCES TO HELP YOU MASTER THE ART OF HACKING (2015)

ULTIMATE BEGINNER HANDBOOK TO COMPUTER HACKING ESSENTIALS: LEARN ETHICAL HACKING, PENETRATION TESTING AND BASIC SECURITY: 50+ FREE RESOURCES TO HELP YOU MASTER THE ART OF HACKING (2015)

THE TOOLS: UN-ETHICAL HACKER

The Un-Ethical Hacker has quite a bit more on their plate than the Ethical Hacker and it’s important to know what they have, in order to protect the businesses that they go against. These hackers are often either employed by a competitor or just out there to get information on businesses their local government is interested in.

MORE THAN ONE COMPUTER

They often have an entire room built with computers all interconnecting in order to ensure that they can handle even the biggest jobs. This is why having efficient scripting is important and why creating scripts to defeat your own scripts will improve your scripts even further, and why you need to do this. Often times, the reason why a place is hacked is that the Ethical Hacker did not get far enough to detect a specific type of script that would protect against the scripts the Un-Ethical Hacker created.

Another dynamic tool that Un-Ethical Hackers have under their belts is the ability for sheer processing power, which can run over tens of thousands of scripts at once. An Ethical Hacker is limited to the processing power they are given to work with while the Un-Ethical Hacker is only limited by how much money they have to purchase processors, and how much power they can afford to have. This is why some governments employ Un-Ethical Hackers and give them all the resources they need to attack foreign companies for their information.

On top of this, the most important part of the entire process is to not get caught and this is where the importance of more than one computer comes in. Each computer has its own Mac Address, which identifies the hardware similar to the driver’s license that you use. Having more than one Mac Address along with every one of those Mac Addresses coming from a different IP address scrambles the origin of where the hack is coming from. This is the standard step most Un-Ethical Hackers use to hide their location.

PRE-RENDERED ADAPTABLE SCRIPTS

Another huge part of being an Un-Ethical Hacker is to develop adaptable scripts that will continue to attack the network in a different way even if the initial script fails. This is huge and rare, as only some of the best Red Hat Hackers in the world produce these and these scripts are extremely difficult to beat since the code often adapts faster than the person who is trying to keep the website secure. However, an important part to note is that these scripts are not artificially intelligent and will continue to brute attack unless they are stopped, and they may be flawed and backfire.

How you develop an adaptable script is through knowing the Append functions of a language and making a ton of if/else statements that have already been thought of to ensure that the next append will take the most likely path that the Ethical Hacker used in order to block the script. In other words, one script may have over 1,000 if/else statements and only one append function for failures so that it takes note of what fails, and what looks like it worked. Then, behind that, if one of the scripts looks like it worked, another adaptable script begins at that point to start targeting if/else parameters to see if it can go any further. These scripts can take weeks to build, but it essentially makes short handle of almost any network and will break through a network within a few hours. Additionally, these scripts could run over a million if/else statements previously scripted by those within the same line of work and were downloaded off of the Deep Web.

SWEAT SHOPS

If you have heard anything bad about a foreign country, nine times out of ten the bad was something involving the use of a sweat shop. These also exist for Un-Ethical Hackers and the ones that use them, use them at their full extent. In a slight twist of irony, though, almost any work at an Un-Ethical Hacker Sweat Shop will have enough knowledge about computer by the time the shop is shut down, that the person who work in the sweat shop will have something they can work with in foreign countries for money. But, why? Sweat Shops like these are often used in government funded operations to make the adaptable scripts we were talking about, but in droves. Essentially, the sweat shops are taught how to write the scripts and then told they need to write a certain amount of scripts to beat a specific algorithm. What occurs is a lot of common scripts, but, when compiled, you also have tens, hundreds, and even thousands of if/else statements that are not common. This also for a better versed script and, to go even further, so scripters are then required to beat that list of scripts with another drove of scripts. The entire process takes close to three months or even half a year depending on how much manpower they put into. The result is an extremely large compiled list of if/else statements that will absolutely destroy the network they are going against.

However, as mentioned before, these are rare and require a lot of dedication to make it happen. This has only occurred a few times and they have left their mark on history, with notable historical moments of NSA hacks, Pharmaceutical Company hacks, and very similar world-surprising moments.

BUGS 101

The last part that Un-Ethical hackers use against Ethical Hackers is the list of bugs that they know will work against certain securities and languages. Most people are unaware that there are thousands, and even millions, of exploitable bugs in software and people spend their free time to figure out where they are. The help button on software is expectant of the average consumer and problematic for software designers, and very exploitable. Knowing how to replace that help button on an employee’s computer from an email, may give you access to the entire network. This would only be possible if there was an exploitable bug in the software that allowed you to alter the help button remotely.