As part of a science class I am in I have to do a report on a scientific american article. the one that I chose was how hackers break in and how they are caught, It talked about a few of the programs used by bouth sides, war dialers, strobes, some stealth thing where only a prefix is sent I forget the name, a jail computor system firewalls, deamon manipulation and the like and I was just wondering if any one here could give a breif over veiw of hacking and cracking.

the is a book that outlines the basics called 'hacking exposed' that puts everything into neat little catagories, the are also white papers on all sorts of stuff at http://packetstorm.securify.com though don't forget trojaning etc, all the things ppl call 'lame' are really the quickest and most effective way of gaining access.