Go to now talk about the current threat landscape this is another way of saying what are the nasty things
that are out there that we should be caring about concerning ourself about.
First the hacker cracker or cyber criminal.
Well you can see behind you is an active I.R.S. channel where everything from credit cards to malware
viruses hacking is a service is sold.
I'll see if you know where it is the power of the Internet not the web but it can be accessed via something
called an IOC client.
Hacker actually originally was a positive term used to describe someone who kept hacking problem until
it was done.
But today Conan's Downing is really someone who's out to cause mischief on the Internet or on your computer.
So that's the way we use it.
There are people that call themselves white hackers meaning they are hacking.
For good example being the work I've done where you are paid to attempt to compromise a target such
as a company and this in the security industry is called ethical hacking or penetration testing.
But what we care about is the black hacker or really you can just simply call them cyber criminals.
They are no longer teenage boys in their mothers basement hacking for fun and recognition.
They are criminals attempting to make money out of you and other people.
You have hacking groups or criminal organizations that range in size from large small.
You have loosely connected hacking groups who convalesce in areas of the dark web and don't really have
strong connections but only connections via the web or some sort of common moral or political agenda.
And you have the lone wolf hacker the seals of these people these hackers very massively The vast majority
of hackers have little skills and or refer to his script kiddies because all they can do is going to
script that someone else has written.
And I guess maybe 95 percent are script kiddies but you should still not underestimate them.
The other five percent are skilled and more dangerous today the skilled hackers sell their tools to
the script kiddies.
And you even have an underground market sell in.
Hacking is a service which is why the script kiddies can be just as dangerous.
You can rent time on a hacking platform.
If these people spend as much time on legitimate businesses then they would probably do very well.