Research Task: Types of Hacking

 Research Task: Hacking

For my independent research task I have looked into different types of hacking. I have done my research on this because it can help my group with our opening title sequence, considering the film is about someone hacking into other people's computers to spy on them. 

The first type of hacking is known as breaching. Breaching is when someone obtains your information like passwords, emails, ip addresses, etc through a leakage from a website. There is a breach collection on the internet that contains 1.4 billion email and password combinations. Hackers find this information and can sell it to others on websites like the dark web. This is also how some famous people on social media get hacked. There is a breach and their username and password gets exposed for anyone on the internet to find.

The second type of hacking is known as social engineering. Phishing, a sub category of social engineering, is when someone might send you a link for something, like getting free instagram followers if you enter your username and password, then scamming you and taking your information. A hacker could also install something called a RAT on your device. RAT's are malware that give other people access to your device. Hackers can do anything when you have a RAT on your device.

The third most popular type of hacking is known as the man in the middle attacks. This is when the hacker puts themself in the middle of you and the internet. If you are browsing the internet on public wifi, they can see everything that you are sending and receiving. Most websites use HTTPS, which prevents the hacker from being the man in the middle but there are still incidents where this can happen. 

This research will impact my idea because it will help my group come up in different ways in which the hacker can hack his friends computers. This research has opened many more doors to many different ways that we can go about this now.