Terminology differences between hackers and crackers to be biased and sometimes disappear altogether in the mass media perspective and the general public. The cracker is also not uncommon to refer to themselves as hackers hacking causing a bad image. (Richard Mansfield, Hacker Attack, 2000).
Action intrusion into a computer system made by crackers to try to steal credit card data to change the look of a site on the Internet, referred to as cracking. It is emphasized that the term hacking is actually the behavior or action burst into an electronic system. No more than to get access to a computer system and reading files in the computer system, no action followed by stealing or destroying anything.
Some examples of actions that are considered harmful crackers other Internet users include some of the sites dilumpuhkannya Yahoo.com, eBay.com, Amazon.com, Buy.com, ZDNet.com, CNN.com, MSN.com drafts eTrade.com attack barrage of crackers with a technique Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). Attack launched in February 2000 that could slow the world’s Internet traffic by 26 percent.
Then the other cases such as 55 thousand stolen credit card data from the site CreditCards.com. The data is then displayed on another site cracker thief after he failed to squeeze some $ 100 thousand of these Nahas site. Genesis credit card data theft took place in December 2000.
