Hacker's Jargon
see also: regular jargon
| Acronym | Meaning | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| 1337 | Elite | 1337speak for the best of the best, often used ironically |
| Black Hat | Person | A person who tries to abuse, break, enter or use systems or services in a bad way or malicious way - using "black hat trickery" and hacking skills, this is the opposite to the *white hat* (hacker). |
| Brute Force | trying every combination of a user/password combination to gain access to services which need credentials | |
| Crack | Software | A specialized software which targets and modifies other software, either by patching, emulation or generation of license keys in order to make a software free to use and or lifting software restrictions. |
| cracking | Skill | circumventing software restrictions, e.g. copy protection, license checks or artificial limitations; usually supplied and referred to as a *crack* |
| DoS | Denial of Service | congesting a networked service so that it can't serve other users |
| DDoS | Distributed Denial of Service | accessing a service with a lot of machines so it can't service other users |
| FOSS | Free and Open Source Software | programs which you can run, modify and distribute freely |
| Hacker | Person | A person who actively tries to reflect, study and master skills and insides in and on various domains, topics and or sciences. Coined from information technology this now rather stands for every possible topic one can practice and reflect on in a deeper way above "the average" (knowledge(s)). |
| Lockpicking | picking locks | opening stuff which was physically locked before with metal tools |
| NetSec | Network Security | |
| phreaking | calling a service in an undocumented way, e.g. to gain free access to a paid service | |
| OpSec | Operational Security | |
| RAT | Remote Administration Tool | Software with which you control a *vic*'s PC undetected |
| RMS | Richard M. Stallman | eccentric GNU tools programming guru who likes to eat stuff from his foot |
| RE or "reversing" | reverse engineering | the process of analyzing and resembling a software to base parts or writing software which emulates other software's behaviour, e.g. turning closed source software into *FOSS* |
| SE | Social Engineering | making people do things without technology |
| skid | Script Kiddie | Person which doesn't have *1337* skills and only uses tools made by others. |
| vic | Victim | The soft target (=human) of your hacking attempts. |
| vuln | Vulnerability | A security hole which allows exploitation |
| White Hat | Person | A person who uses services and systems in the desired and specified ways, without undermining the service or system itself and tries to promote a "good" tech use. The *Black hat* (hacker) is the opposite. |
| Winblows | Microsoft Windows |
see also
- Jargon File by ESR