The Word ' Hacking '

Many people know that curiosity killed the cat, for hacker’s curiosity is deep in their roots. It started with the word hack. “Hack” was used as a term witch is to improve performance of programs. Pagllery stated that “Hacking became the art of figuring out unique solutions.” and that “hackers wanted to make technology work better….” In the 1970s hackers used a whistle tone for free international phone calls. In the 1980s, instead of teenage hacking the phone network system, hackers began to attack computers for money and espionage (Pagllery). This brings in the DHS (Department of Homeland Security) to combat terrorism, but later to also combat the growing cyberterrorism. The DHS was created after the 2001 terrorist attack on the world trade

Since most basic base in Western social orders is arranged through PCs, the potential risk from cyberterrorism is, no doubt, extremely disturbing. Programmers, despite

There are many Computer Science myths that are propagated throughout modern media. These technical myths can be seen as positive and sometimes negative. A big myth that is often propagated is the idea of hacking as an individual. Hackers are seen to possess a sort of superpower that allows them to hack anything alone. In movies and tv shows, hackers are shown to be able to infiltrate everything from social media accounts to governments. I want to debunk the myth that hacking is not done quickly by a single person like we see in the movies. Instead, to be the most effective, hackers form groups which enables them to solve difficult problems in a timely manner.

The Most Dangerous Cyber Criminals Of All Time is a article by Luis Fran. This article uses the story of three hacker to describe why cybercrime is a dangerous social issues. Fran repeatedly use the term “hackers”

From wireless telegraphy to supercomputers, hacking has played a crucial role in technological history. Through the decades, hackers have been manipulating different forms of technology through the various tools that they create. Many different methods of hacking have surfaced and every generation seems to create a different tool to aid hackers with their goals. Whether their goal is to deface a website, engage in internet activism or steal money for monetary gain, hackers will always play an active part in our history. This essay will cover many different hackers, their tools, their motives and mostly

The internet and computer have converted into main tools found in the people's lives. Computer hacking can be an identical acknowledged identified known way of crashing your computer system. The hackers are explorers utilizing their talents to damage a culture, world, contemporary society, population. Computer hackers are illegal users who crash into computer systems to steal money, change files or destroy important information, and by connecting dangerous malware. Hacking the electronic devices of innocent people is a federal crime. Hacking has become the world’s most dangerous crime and the biggest problem in the today’s society. Hackers can hack the computer in various ways, and by the different techniques. Besides, hacking most affects

Even though David initial intend was to find a game and not to start World War lll, his actions proved otherwise. The use of technology is an important advancement to modern society. However, when technology is given to adolescents unmonitored opens a new world to curious minds. In addition, this movie portrays a negative light on hackers. It shows that hacking is a serious issue because of the simplicity of some forms of hacking like social engineering and shoulder surfing such as when David simply knew the password for his school’s administrative computer and a simple code to hack into the system to change his grade. As a result, this movie portray a notion that anyone that knows and does a little research on hacking can cause

This paper discusses the liberties, ideologies, and effects of hacktivism. Hacktivism, is the combination of hacking and activism, and is where a hacker creates a technology-centered disturbance with a political or social motive. Unlawful hackers typically cause cyber damage for amusement, or monetary gain. While traditional hackers are perceived as criminals, hacktivists are a transgressive group. Cyberterrorism is the most extreme version of hacking, where the goal is to cause permanent damage. There are benefits to hacktivism such as, anyone can log on and share their opinion, regardless of their location or position. However, some forms of hacktivism may be closer to cyberterrorism, where there may be a malicious intent. Controversy

Hacking In the Business Society From history we can observer that "human society" is easily influenced, and often mislead. There is a near endless amount of examples for this, ranging from the Suicidal Sect leaders (David Koresh http://www.rickross.com/reference/waco/waco321.html ), to mad dictators, with aspirations of taking over the world. This human susceptibility of being easily mislead, is clearly apparent when dealing with the issue of "Hacking", and "Hacking In the Business Society". The movie industry has played a great role in misinforming society of who a hacker is, and what they can do.

Among Nir Zigdon, various others have spiked a surprising increase in internet based hacktivism. These new hacktivists have brought with them a new form of law enforcement punishment on the basis of hacktivist crime. The impressive amounts of protests and internet sit ins went hand in hand with law enforcement that was equally as impressive. FBI and police have detained hundreds of activists and levied astronomical fines sometimes reaching nearly $500,000 over the past year (Coleman, 401-402). By increasing penalties, law enforcement ensure that hacktivism would cease. For instance, hackers of the Islamic State known as the Cyber Caliphate seized control of the U.S Central Command’s Twitter account and hijacked a French T.V network in early April. These hackers were to be found with lifelong sentences in detainment facilities if ever caught. With the wake of hacktivism, law enforcement have placed astronomical punishments to derail hacking-based crimes. It is foolish to concur with the many who dispute for the hacktivists to be unchained and freed of their fines however supporting the curtailment of the fines being placed would be wise. To dwindle the numbers of hacktivist related crimes, law enforcement have become insistent on the

These are the people setting the very negative example of computer literate people around the world. They know no morals, or ethical value behind what they do, but to compromise, and cause havoc upon the end user computing world. Hackers fall into two categories: Black Hat and White Hat Hackers. While Black Hat hackers illegally crack into systems for malicious reasons, their White Hat counterparts probe and test for security flaws and IT research (Black Hat/White Hat). The term "hacker" can be explained as a person who enjoys learning the details of a computer system and how to stretch their capabilities beyond a person who learns the bare minimum to use a computer (Palmer). By this definition, a hacker can be anyone who is willing to expand their knowledge with a computer to better benefit themselves, or more importantly, others.

Computer hackers became prominent in the 1980’s when the FBI investigates breach of security at the National CSS. When an employee of the National CSS revealed his password cracker, the company chastised him not for writing the software but by no telling them sooner of the security weakness and vulnerability.

Before delving into ethical hacking we must first understand what hacking really is. As defined by dictionary.com hacking means to modify a computer program or electronic device in a skillful or clever way: or to break into a network, computer, file, etc., usually with malicious intent.[1] Hacking is performed by a person or group of people know as hackers. In the computer security context, a hacker is someone who seeks and exploits weaknesses in a computer system or computer network. Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, protest, challenge, enjoyment, or to evaluate those weaknesses to assist in removing them. The subculture that has evolved around hackers is often referred to as the computer underground and is now a known community.[2]

Currently, the worst fear of the netizens is being “hacked”. What the general netizens understand about it is that it is a breach of their internet security and an invasion of their privacy. For the more technically-savvy users, hacking is a way to get access to application software and games that require

Threats against big companies and people across the world isn’t a trending topic. A lack of protection from within the platforms can create internal, external, and political problems for people and business companies. Internally, hackers try to compromise computers and gather sensitive information from the inside as if it was their private property. Externally, hackers gather information for their own personal gain and to pose a great threat from outside of the business or person’s home because they can find access into the system a lot easier with new advanced technology. Over time, computer hacking has grown into something that is essentially a worldwide problem in countries like North Korea, Russia, the United States, and China that is. Overall, some these countries are trying to eliminate and capture hackers and produce a stronger more secure based program for all of the computer platforms. The literature points out that the only way of fixing the problem with hackers is to invest much more money into producing a more secure security system for all platforms that is basically impossible to decode or enter the program.