COMPUTER NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS
NETWORK SECURITY AND CYBERSECURITY
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The act of spreading malicious software through computer networks.
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The act of aiming to target and harm companies or individuals with whom they have a fundamental disagreement.
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An attack that is used against a person or company the hacker believes have wronged him in some way or manner.
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Attempting to penetrate a network to locate vulnerabilities.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Derived from the phrases hacking and activism, hacktivism is the act of accessing a computer system without authorization for political or social purposes. “hacking” and “activism.” Hacktivism occurs when political or social activists employ computer technology to make a statement favoring one of their causes.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hacktivists typically target entire industries but sometimes attack specific organizations who they feel don’t align with their political views or practices. In some cases hacktivists have targeted organizations not based on the victim organization’s beliefs but the clients and partners they do business with.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hacktivists generally operate under apolitical ideals and express uninhibited ideas or abuse without being scrutinized by society while representing or defending themselves publicly under an anonymous identity giving them a sense of power in the cyberactivism community.