hacking terms
116 glossary entries tagged hacking, listed alphabetically.
- 2600 Magazine2600: The Hacker Quarterly
- a hacker scene (regional scenes)
- Adrian Lamo
- Albert Gonzalez
- Anonymous
- attack vector
- Back Orifice
- Barnaby Jack
- beaconing
- blue box
- botnet
- BSides São PauloSecurity BSides São Paulo (Co0L BSidesSP)
- buffer overflow
- bug bounty
- C2command and control
- Campus PartyCampus Party - the tent-city technology festival
- Captain Midnight
- Chaos Computer ClubChaos Computer Club (CCC)
- CryptoRaveCryptoRave - the crowdfunded cryptoactivism marathon of São Paulo
- Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc)
- Cyberpunk (Hafner and Markoff, 1991)
- dark web
- darknet
- DEF CONDEF CON hacker conference
- Deviant Ollam
- DragonJARDragonJAR Security Conference - Colombia's leading hacker con, deliberately in Spanish
- dumpster diving
- DVD Jon (Jon Lech Johansen)
- EFFElectronic Frontier Foundation
- EFnet (Eris Free Net)
- EkopartyEkoparty - Latin America's biggest hacking conference (Buenos Aires, since 2001)
- Emmanuel Goldstein (Eric Corley)
- EternalBlue
- exploit
- fuzzing
- Garoa Hacker ClubeGaroa Hacker Clube
- Gary McKinnon
- George Hotz (geohot)
- grok
- H2HCHackers to Hackers Conference
- hack
- Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Levy, 1984)
- Hacktivism
- HD Moore
- HITBHack In The Box - the deep-knowledge conference born in Kuala Lumpur
- IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
- Joybubbles (Joe Engressia)
- Julian Assange (Mendax)
- Kevin Mitnick
- Kevin Poulsen
- L0pht Heavy Industries
- lamer, noob, newbie, script kiddie
- lateral movement
- leet (1337, eleet)
- Legion of Doom (LOD)
- living off the land
- LulzSec
- Mafiaboy (Michael Calce)
- Marcus Hutchins (MalwareTech)
- Masters of Deception (MOD)
- Max Butler (Iceman)
- Mente BináriaMente Binária (nonprofit teaching and research institution)
- Moonlight Maze
- Mudge (Peiter Zatko)
- Nelson Brito
- Nelson Murilo
- Netsplit (and riding the split)
- Neuromancer (Gibson, 1984)
- NullconNullcon - India's flagship hacker conference, grown from the null community
- O Rei da Internet (2026)
- Operation Aurora
- Operation Sundevil
- payload
- penetration testpenetration test
- Phiber Optik (Mark Abene)
- phishing
- Phrack
- Phreaking
- Prilex
- privilege escalation
- pwned
- red team
- RoadsecRoadsec - Latin America's largest hacker festival
- SampaSecSampaSec (Sao Paulo CitySec meetup)
- script kiddie
- shellcode
- ShmooConShmooCon - the affordable-on-purpose Washington hacker con (2005-2025)
- smishing
- social engineering
- Space Rogue (Cris Thomas)
- Susan Headley (Susy Thunder)
- the 414s
- the Hacker Manifesto
- the Homebrew Computer Club
- the Jargon File
- the Jeep hack
- the KGB hack (Karl Koch)
- the L0pht testimony
- the Max Headroom incident
- The Mentor (Loyd Blankenship)
- the Scene
- the Shadow Brokers
- the street finds its own uses for things
- the Tetrade (Brazilian banking trojans)
- the WANK worm
- Titan Rain
- TROOPERSTROOPERS - ERNW's Heidelberg conference, Europe's practitioners' favorite
- Tsutomu Shimomura
- Underground (Dreyfus and Assange, 1997)
- use-after-free
- War dialing
- War driving
- Wau Holland
- white / black / grey hat
- YSTSYou Shot the Sheriff
- zero-day