pyth0n3 Posted October 24, 2010 Report Posted October 24, 2010 "I’d like to clarify the terminology used in this article to refer to attackers. The terms “defacers”, “crackers” and “hackers” are all used in the community, but the media tends to refer to such attackers simply as “hackers”. However, I prefer to use the term “defacers” to refer to the people behind these tools and defacement games""A defacer is someone who doesn’t really care which site they attack; their main aim is simply to find and exploit a vulnerability on a server and then either replace the website content, or upload a file indicating that they were there""“real” hackers don’t attack random sites, but rather use their knowledge to conduct targeted attacks""the defacers aren’t selective in their targets; in most cases they just use automated tools to find vulnerable servers, and automatically exploit them. The exploit automatically uploads a backdoor to the compromised server which will provide, for example, shell access to the compromised server""defacers aren’t only exploiting technical vulnerabilities, they are also exploiting ignorance"Read full article... Quote
