Defining hacker

Traditionally, hackers like to tinker with software or electronic systems. Hackers enjoy exploring and learning how computer systems operate. They love discovering new ways to work — both mechanically and

electronically.

In recent years, hacker has taken on a new meaning — someone who maliciously breaks into systems for personal gain. Technically, these criminals are crackers (criminal hackers). Crackers break into, or crack,

systems with malicious intent. The personal gain they seek could be fame, profit, and even revenge. They modify, delete, and steal critical information, often making other people miserable.

The good-guy (white hat) hackers don’t like being lumped in the same category as the bad-guy (black hat) hackers. (In case you’re curious, the white hat and black hat terms come from old Western TV shows in which the good guys wore white cowboy hats and the bad guys wore black cowboy hats.) 

Gray hat hackers are a little bit of both. Whatever the case, most people have a negative connotation for the word hacker.

Many malicious hackers claim that they don’t cause damage but instead help others for the greater good of society. Yeah, right. Malicious hackers are electronic miscreants and deserve the consequences of their actions. However, be careful not to confuse criminal hackers with security researchers.

Hacking for beginer

Welcome to Hacking For Beginners,

computer hacker tricks and techniques that you can use to assess the security of your information systems, find the security vulnerabilities that matter, and fix the weaknesses before criminal hackers and malicious users take advantage of them. This hacking is the professional, aboveboard, and legal type of security testing — which I call ethical hacking throughout the blog.

Computer and network security is a complex subject and an ever-moving target. You must stay on top of it to ensure that your information is protected from the bad guys. That’s where the tools and techniques outlined in this blog can help.

You can implement all the security technologies and other best practices possible, and your information systems might be secure — as far as you know. However, until you understand how malicious attackers think, apply that knowledge, and use the right tools to assess your systems from their point of view, you can’t get a true sense of how secure your information really is.

Ethical hacking — which encompasses formal and methodical penetration testing, white hat hacking, and vulnerability testing — is necessary to find security flaws and to help validate that your information systems are truly secure on an ongoing basis. This blog provides you with the knowledge to implement an ethical hacking program successfully, perform ethical hacking tests, and put the proper countermeasures in place to keep external hackers and malicious users in check.