Ethical
Hacking An Introduction
Whenever term hacker
comes before many people consider it as a guy sitting inside a room or garage
with a bottle or beer and a Laptop or Desktop doing wonders on click of
buttons. But the reality check is hacking is not that easy as portrayed in
movies and television and term hacker doesn't mean a computer criminal.
So here first of all we'll clear all our misconceptions related to words hackers and hacking.
So here first of all we'll clear all our misconceptions related to words hackers and hacking.
From Where This Word Came:
The word
hacking has history in late 1960's, the time when computers were nothing but
mighty pieces of machines and a computer just meant a machine that can compute.
Electrical and Electronics geeks used to optimize circuits to make any
system/circuit work faster, better and reliably. The job they used to do on
circuits was known as hack. With time computer geeks also started finding way
out to optimize their system to work better so in fact hacking was nothing but
always a kind of reverse engineering. With time in professional world a word
hacker got meaning, a person who is highly skilled in hardware, software and
networking components. Then movies started portraying hackers do only dirty
works and hence today the word hacker has a negative face according to people.
No matter how the word met to a dreadful end a hacker always had all qualities
that was first put forward in its definition may the be criminal or ethical.
Criminal hackers are also known as Crackers.
Types
Of Hackers:
White Hats: White hat hackers are good guys who
use their hacking skills for defensive purposes. Organizations and industries
pay them high salaries to protect their systems and networks from intrusion.
Black Hats: Black hats are actually bad guys in
filed. Their main job is to breach security and make money. They make money by
using their hacking skills for offensive purposes.
Grey Hats: Gray hats are hackers who work for
offensive and defensive purposes depending on situations. They are hired by
people to intrude and protect systems.
Hactivist: A hacktivist is kinda hacker who
thinks hacking can bring out some social changes and hacks government and
organizations to show his discomfort over some trivial issues.
Suicide Hackers: Suicide hackers are those who hack
for some purpose and even don't bother to suffer long term jail due to their
activities. They can be bad as well as good.
Script Kiddie: A script kiddie is a person who
boasts breaking system using scripts and codes written by others though he
hardly knows what the code does.
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