ETHICAL HACKING

Ethical Hacking

Ethical Hacking

Introduction

The explosive growth of Internet has brought many advantages, such as electronic commerce, quick access to online stores, to corporate networks, banking networks and computing, plus easy access to email, to new ways of doing propaganda and new ways of distributing information, to name a few. Internet has become an essential part of our lives these days, and our life has been dependent on the internet (Bill, 2005). Cyber world has opened many opportunities for us for instance, reference material, electronic commerce, email, collaborative computing, information distribution and advertisements etc.

Hacking can be defined as creative innovation as well as type of illegal behavior. This is a type of activity that has occupied two extreme positions. Hacking is defined as cut chop roughly, it is something that is used to improve the performance of the battle boredom by the mainframe operators. There are different types of hacking, software hacking, information hacking etc. As new technologies advance also grow with them a dark side by hackers. Governments, companies, private companies around the world are eager to be a part of this technological evolution, but fear that intruders burst entry on your web server and replace their logo with pornography, read their e-mail, steal their credit card number, or leave a hidden malicious software to transmit all the secrets of the organization via the Internet. For these issues and many others, the Ethical Hacking can help (Michael , 2006).

Discussion

Ethical Hacking

The explosive growth of Internet has brought many advantages, such as: electronic commerce, quick access to online stores, to corporate networks, banking networks and computing, plus easy access to email, to new ways of doing propaganda and new ways of distributing information, to name a few. As new technologies advance a dark side of this evolution also grows with it, in the form of hackers. Governments, companies, private companies around the world are eager to be a part of this technological evolution, but fear that intruders would burst entry on their web servers and can access lots of secret information, regarding the company, its activities, along with it the information related to the employees of the company, as well. Therefore, in order to deal with these serious issues and many others, the concept of Ethical Hacking has evolved. A hacker who pleads with the express mission of the security officer of a company committed to protecting the companies against attacks from hackers with criminal intent are known as Ethical Hackers (Stuart, 1999). This text aims to focus on the different aspects of Ethical Hacking, in order to understand its concept in a better manner.

Ethical Hacker

The professional Ethical Hackers have a large collection of skills. First of all, they must be completely trustworthy (reliable). When testing the security of client systems, the Ethical Hacker can find out information about the client that must be kept secret, including any information filtering that has been mismanaged, which could lead to hackers breaking into the systems, thus leading to a possible financial loss, theft or ...