Hack Tavism News Today

Egypt. virus. no, not random words. theyre code names for people in the hacker culture. the farther you go, the weirder it gets. theres no one size fits all definition of "hacker." everyone hacks for a different reason. some act for a cause. its called "hack-tavism." anonymouss targets range from government agencies to terrorist group isis. one common method, denial of service attacks, essentially overloading a website with traffic until it crashes. think of it as a virtual picket sign. sometime...

On the street, i guess. >> reporter: and then there are those who use hack-tavism to protect. morgan isnt hiding behind a mask but that doesnt mean his work isnt risky. >> ive analyzed hard drives that revealed that the people working in syria, aid workers, had actually been compromised by pro-state actors that find these e-mails that contained malicious documents. the malicious document purported to be a list of insurgents. this basically sells itself, right, because you receive this list when ...

Laurie segall has a fascinating new special. she finds people who knows how to gain access to our secrets online, our browsing secrets, bank accounts. think know a lot about us and we know so little about them. >> reporter: hamster. egypt. virus. no, not random words. theyre actually code names for hackers i met as i delved deeper into hacker culture. the farther you go, the weird e it gets and heres what you begin to pick up on. theres no one size fits all of the word hacker. everyone hacks for...