Monday, October 10, 2011

What is hacking? Types of hacking


Hacking is the art of problem solving. People who engage in computer hacking activities are often called hackers. Basically Hackers are the people who do things in a smarter way which a normal person cannot. Whether its finding a solution or exploiting loopholes in programming.

Most of the people misconceive that hacking means "law breaking" which is NOT TRUE. All hackers are not criminals and neither hacking is illegal. Hacking is a sort of a power. A power of innovation , its up to a person whether to use these to be a superhero or be a wicked evil. So there is nothing wrong in learning hacking but its important to use your skills for good purpose and not to take undue advantage of your hacking skills.

And how to distinguish between these superheroes(good hackers) and these villians ( bad hackers )-which are actually called crackers. Cracker was the term coined to distinguish evil hackers who steal our credit card numbers , defacing websites etc. Hackers stayed true to the Hacker Ethic, while crackers are only interested in breaking the law and making quick money. All the bad guys of the hacking world doing piracy, defacing websites, stealing credit card information etc. are supposed to be called 'crackers' who actually are less talented than the elite hackers

If i talk in terms of US laws then it says, it is intentionally accessing a system without permissions or may be exceeding authorized access, and thereby obtaining information. The laws basically emphasize more on government computers, but intrusion made on any individual's pc without his/her knowledge will also be called as a crime.

But this term is not being used by the media and because of its ability to sensationalise has made an evil image of the word hacker, although its not. In many cases, computer hacking helps prevent identity theft and other serious computer-related crimes.


Types of hacking

Friends i searched on many site under the topic types of hacking and i have found that most of the sites have only tell some different ways of hacking and not the proper categories of types of hacking.

So i am just giving division of types of hacking done by different hackers or whatever you call :-

1. Local Hacking
2. Social Networking Hacking
3. Remote Hacking.

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