Hackers versus Normal Users
Leon Reznik · 2021
The chapter starts with discussing how hacker's demography and their culture have been changing over the years. Then it proceeds with presenting hacking attacks, techniques, and tools as well as anti-hacking protection mechanisms. In the second part, it moves to the ordinary user's profiles and authentication. Here we show how to employ data science and statistical approaches to find out and analyze user's characteristics and their influence on the security level of their computer practice. The chapter presents the computer device security evaluation procedures. It discusses how to conduct analysis, observations, results, and recommendations for users to improve their overall security practices and the security of their devices. Also, it examines the hacking web fingerprinting attacks against the privacy protection TOR technology that utilizes machine learning as well as possible protection mechanisms. Examples and use cases are included.