Hacking is the most dreaded 7 letter word by many international businesses. What exactly is
Hacking and why do organisations dread this word? Hack as per Oxford Dictionary means an unauthorised access to
data using a computer. Most of the valuable data is stored in central servers which are accessed by the employees using a computer through a Local Area Network(LAN) or wide area network(WAN) depending on the size and area of the location. It is to be understood that data is entered into the computer or retrieved using a set of programs (software). Every major orgainsation employ programers or software developers to develop the software required by them, or buy the software from vendors.While all the software
companies take enough precautions while writing the programs, there is always scope for hacking. HAcking basically started by a few disgruntled employees of an organisation and this was done by writing
virus programs and storing them in regularly accessed files of the computer. The moment the files are opened, the data gets duplicated and then multiplied which ultimately crashes the computer systems. Organizations world over have spent billions of dollars to improve the security of data by upgrading the
systems and software frequently. Hacking which once started as a vengeful act has taken a professional turn what with high penetration of computers world-wide and increased use of internet. The current trend is to send virus programs through e-mails to known and unknown people as an attachement. The attached file may be a document, executable file or an image, and the moment the attachement is opened, it affects the systems which ultimately lead to the crashing of systems. Usually the
hackers themselves write anti-virus programs and sell them for a fee.This is again a million dollar industry. Such hackers can be treated as unethical hackers as they deliberately destroy data first and then make money by proviing a solution. An official website on internet is the most effective advertisement of an organisation. While for some companies like e-commerce companies, a website is the only interface with the customer, and one can imagine the monetary loss to the company if their websites are hacked and remain inoperative even for a day. The solution to such a problem is
ethical hacking. Ethical hackers are professionals hired by the orgainsation solely for the purpose of hacking their own sites, which help them evaluate loopholes in their security systems, and ultimately eliminate them. To sum up, the reader is the best judge to say whether, hacking is ethical or not and of course, a lot of books have been written on 'how to' of hacking.
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