Computer Ethics

Computer Ethics

Hacker

A Hacker is somebody who finds weaknesses in a computer or computer network and exploits them through a process called penetration or penetration testing (depending on the motive). Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons such as profit, protest, challenge, or to aid security by pointing out vulnerabilities.

World Top 5 Female Hackers

1. Kristina Vladimirovna Svechinskaya

Kristina Svechinskaya, a New York University student is one of the most common names in the hacker’s world. She is Russian money mule maker who was arrested on November 2010 and accused of breaking into millions of dollars from several banks in Britain and America and for usage of multiple fake passports. Svechinskaya was dubbed "the world's sexiest computer hacker" for her raunchy, but casual appearance.

2. Ying Cracker

Ying is one of the most beautiful hacker and an educator from Shanghai, China. She teaches people the basics of how to start hacking; things like changing your IP address or wiping Office passwords.

3. Joanna Rutkowska

Joanna is a polish security specialist, she is popularly known for her research on low-level security and stealth malware and for her contributions to Windows vista. She became a known personality and rose to fame after the Black Hat Briefings conference in Las Vegas in August 2006 where Rutkowska demonstrated to the world two ways to hack Windows Vista Beta 2 kernel protection mechanism and also a technique dubbed Blue Pill, that used hardware virtualization to move a running OS into a virtual machine.

She is named ‘Five Hackers who Put a Mark on 2006’ by eWeek Magazine for her research on the topic. Rutkowska also gave an open advice to Vice President of Microsoft's Security Technology Unit to further tighten security on Windows Vista system. She is an elite hacker who an entrepruener who launced her own security services startup Invisible Things Lab in Warsaw, Poland.

3. Xiao Tian

Xiao Tian, just out of her teenage became famous after forming China Girl Security Team, a group of hackers especially for woman which is China's largest today; the group has over 2,200 members. Tian created the now-infamous hacking team because she felt that there was no other outlet for teenage girls like her in the male-dominated world of hacking. It’s time to Move over male Asian nerdy computer geeks, female Asian nerdy computer geeks are here to stay.

4. Raven Alder

Raven graduated from high school at the age of 14 and college at 18. She was the first woman to give a presentation at the DefCon hacker’s conference. Adler an half ISP engineer, half security geek, is a contributing author to several technical books, magazines and a frequent speaker at conferences She designs, tests and audits intrusion detection systems for large federal agencies. She has worked as a Senior Backbone Architect and Senior Security Consultant in IT security. Her interest in securing networks end-to-end has led her to examine and pioneer standards in the security of network infrastructure.



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