This Appendix will provide you with a quick, yet comprehensive, review of the most important concepts covered in this book.

Chapter 1: Hacking Methodology

A Brief History of Hacking

• In the 1960s, it was the ARPANET, the first transcontinental computer network, which truly brought hackers together for the first time. The ARPANET was the first opportunity that hackers were given to truly work together as one large group, rather than working in small isolated communities.
• In the mid-1970s, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs the very men who founded Apple Computer worked with Draper, who had made quite an impression on them, building Blue Boxes, devices used to hack into phone systems. Jobs went by the nickname of Berkley Blue and Wozniak went by Oak Toebark. Both men played a major role in the early days of phone hacking or phreaking.
• Congress passed a law in 1986 called the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. It was not too long after that law was passed by Congress that the government prosecuted the first big case of hacking. (Robert Morris was convicted in 1988 for his Internet worm.)

What Motivates a Hacker?

• Notoriety: The knowledge a hacker amasses is a form of power and prestige.
• Challenge: Discovering vulnerabilities, researching a mark, or finding a hole nobody else could find are intellectual challenges.
• Boredom: Finding a target is often a result of happening across a vulnerability in time-consuming, wide-ranging probes, not seeking it out in a particular place.
• Revenge: A disenfranchised former...