And just like viruses, most people don't understand hackers or what they do.
Hackers come in many varieties.
Real hackers don't fit those stereotypes. They aren't nerds living in darkened dorm rooms or multi-millionaire industrial spies. They are average people with strong computer skills and the desire to test those skills in ways that often prove illegal. Network hackers engage in several sorts of activities. For instance, a denial of service attack on a Web server floods it with bogus requests for pages.