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Company, that divides the hacking community. a good hacker, a white hat, reports the problems they find so other users arent at risk. a bad hacker or black hat wants to make money for gain power. information can be sold on the black market. its not that cut and dry. a white hat by day could be a black hat by night. for those who use the skill for good, theres always the "what if." do you ever struggle with it? do you think think about, well, what if i went the other way? >> yeah. i mean, theres ...

The whole spider man thing, with great power comes great responsibility. >> reporter: one hacker who uses her power for good found a flaw with a wi-fi connected gun. >> you can just connect to the wireless network and you can talk directly to the back end of the system. what we tested specifically was to change the weight of the bullet. and that made the shot go two and a half feet to the left instead of the target that we were aiming at. >> reporter: so when they told the gunmaker they say its ...

Of people who want freedom. >> what do you say to the folks who say anonymous breaks the law. >> if freedom is breaking the law, theres something wrong with the law. >> and the hacking community, people play by their own rules. hell hack your website if he doesnt like what you stand for. a nazi sympathizer forum. i was connected with him. >> we had a vulnerability that a lot of privileges to compromise the whole -- find out where they were holding a meeting, called people in on the meeting. call...

System went back up after a massive hack that affected 4,000 employees. it was down for two weeks and just the latest. the hacking community is, for many reasons, often a secretive one. but the biggest players assembled at a conference in las vegas, out in the open. rare access to be amongst the hackers here. if youre a hacker, you have darkened shades, blackened shades, hiding in there, anonymous handle name. these guys are in sin city, having their convention. >> you think of them in basements...

And phone numbers of commanders captains and major generals. in total, about 100 members of the u.s. military. many of those singled out are pilots including this man seen holding his baby we are bluring his face to protect his identity. it was posted by a group calling itself the islamic hacking community. they are calling on sympathizers to kill service members in their own land behead them in their own homes, stab them to death as they walk tear streets thinking they are safe. >> it could eas...

>> but wouldnt they want the credit for it by now? north korea is getting the credit now. >> at this juncture, it could just be internal bragging rights. for the hacking community, it can be fun. its also effective corporate espionage and it could be a for-profit hacking event executed by the nigerians, eastern european, in some cases, in south america as well. >> thank you, anthony and evan, for your perspective this morning and hopefully in 2015 well get some of these mysteries solved. well,...

On end, its probably a 15-year-old in jersey wearing guy fawkes mask. thats what most of the hacking community believes. >> hows the service tonight? >> reporter: the service is actually the way it was yesterday. there was a complete failure overnight. it was as if north korea was completely wiped off the internet map and throughout the day, weve seen a lot of trouble trying to get on to the states web sites. theyre failing at times. certainly looks like theyre struggling to come back online. th...

Websites coming up and down. so who did it? we just dont know. is it the united states? because the president did as you mention say there was going to be some sort of response. we spoken to number of people in the hacking community, as well as cyberintelligence, they all roundly say -- they dont think so. this looks like the work of some rogue hackers, because the internet would not be struggling to come up and then come back down. ailsen? >> interesting. quite a mystery, kyung law, thank you f...

But were also seeing counterattacks from south koreas military as well as a very robust south korean hacking community. >> interesting. appreciate the reporting from seoul. as we have been reporting, north koreas nuclear power in a limited sense, they have tested nuclear devices as you know but probably not done what it takes to shrink them to warhead size and mount them on a missile. they are however making threatening noises, threatening moves. with a reality check on koreas military capabilit...

Thats meant in lighthearted manner. this comes from a hacker group, a hacker group from the umbrella of anonymous, and its a picture of kim jong-un dressed as a pig with mickey mouse tattoo. this is symbolic of the war that is happening in cyberspace. it has been raging, it has been ticking up, north korea trying to attack south korean banks, the south korean government via cyberspace. but were also seeing counterattacks from south koreas military as well as a very robust south korean hacking co...