Question

HACKING

1: Discuss the tricks of hacking in 300 words.

2: Explain in you own words why hacking is dangerous? in 250 words.

Answer 1

1. Tricks of hacking -  Hacking is a technique to control over the user sysytem without having user permission or user authentication. hacking, in my opinion, is just as much as an oxymoron as constructive criticism. Before I go on to show that hacking is but an oxymoron only in the literal sense, it is essential for one to understand the words hacking - the misconception. The original hacker was a person who liked to tinker with software and hardware alike, enjoying and exploring the way the things work. They would tweak their subject to perform faster, better or differently than it initially did.Attackers use various hacking techniques to compromise a website or a computer. The most common ones are Trojan horse programs, Denial of Service, unprotected windows shares, mobile code, cross-site scripting and packet sniffing. attackers gather information from a victim via their e-mail communication.Trojan horse programs are a common way for intruders to trick a user into installing back door programs. According to Armor2net, these programs can allow intruders easy access to a computer without the user's knowledge, change the system configurations, or infect the computer with a computer virus. These back door or remote administration programs are also known as social engineering. In fact, hackers usually use BackOrifice, Netbus, and SubSeven to gain remote access to users' computers. Once installed, these programs will allow them to access and control the computers.Denial of Service (DoS) is another technique that hackers frequently use. DoS attack causes user's computer to crash or to become so busy processing data that the computer is unable to use it. According to Armor2net, it is important to note that in addition to being the target of a DoS attack, it is possible that the attackers also us the computer to participate in another DoS attack on another system. In fact, this technique is called Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS).

2. Dangerous Hacking - Well actually Hacking has a very thin line between making the world better place and putting you behind the bars.Hacking can literally be used in any means whether it's been done with extremely good purpose to making someone bankrupt. Our society has become more dependent to modern technology than ever before. So, technically speaking, those who are in control of our technology are becoming more and more powerful every day. I am not talking about hackers only, but generally everyone who can take advantage of their knowlegde. Hackers can be very dangerous, but that is not only based only on their computer skills but many other factors as well. If you are a Black hat Hacker, and you probably do some illegal stuff, then its risky. Much enough that you can land to jail for lifetime (depends on severity). White Hat hacking is safe and admissible until you don't have permission from the website owner. Owner may take legal action against you if you dont have permissions to test. Well, blackhat hackers can use hacking for anything, like stealing bank accounts, private info, cause cyber-terrorism, or just any kind of mayhem. Computer hackers are unauthorized users who break into computer systems in order to steal, change or destroy information, often by installing dangerous software . Hacking is just like a cancer that has very dangerous effects on the society. Today in this modern world, where measures have been taken to improve the security level in the distributed systems hackers have found a way to crack into systems and take away information.So the final answer would be very dangerous in the bad guys hands.