Dangerous Effects Of Hacking on The Society...

What is Hacking?

Hacking is just similar to cancer that has very dangerous and treacherous effects on society. Nowadays in this modern Era, where measures have been taken to improve the security level in the distributed systems, all the hackers have found a way to crack into systems and take away information. In the field of IT, we have seen a drastic change in recent years, where electronic commerce, email, online shopping, online banking, information bank of numerous data, software development has improved leaps and bounds.

Hackers

 The hackers have found a way to get easy money as technology has increased to new heights. Hackers implant a trojan or virus into different computers to make them vulnerable to work, they find easy ways to get into government confidential files, personal banking details, steal away their money from the banks. 

According to the oxford dictionary, Hacking means to "gain unauthorized access(to data in a computer)". Hacking is defined by banks as "hacking is something that boring mainframe computer operators did to improve performance." If you take a glance on the other hand world hacker is the main agent of hack or hacking, it was defined as a person who enjoys accessing files whether for fun, imposing power or the interest related to the accesses files or data according to Taylor.

 Hacker is defined as a person who performs illegal actions whether they were related to a computer or not which means the usage of a device apart from its functionality.

Who Are the Hackers?

Hacker can be anyone who has knowledge of things, according to Taylor, he can be a graduate or a computer professional working at a multinational company. They can be one amongst us. They are part of the society, a computer professional who wants to use technology for their own benefit. Hackers are experts and professional people, at first they enjoy the technology and through research and development they gain more and more interest and you will never know this curiosity of technology changes into crime. This should be realized by everyone that technology is good lest it is used for our countries' benefit, but when things turn upside down it has an adverse effect, that the hackers learn this technique in order to gain profits for themselves through illegal ways. 

In regard to history, Levy described hackers; she divided the life history of hackers into three generations: let us talk about the first generation in this generation hacking was made experts of computer programming who never stopped improving their skills then misuse them, and in the second generation hacking was made of computer hardware developers who found hacking and accessing data and information for free as an appealing idea while the third generation included developers of games architecture, and the third generation developers are those who know about computers and we can say that have just enough knowledge about computer programming. Pipkin classification depends on the way hacker interacts with what is being hacked. 

Hackers and Ethical Hacker Characteristic and Operation:

Hackers can be classified into three general classes

• Black hats
• Gray hats
• White hats

To carry out harmful attacks on information systems, a black hat hacker or cracker has the necessary computing expertise. A gray hat hacker has a split personality. Individually it will not break the law and, in fact, might help to defend a network. on the other hand, the white has exceptional computer skills and uses his or her abilities to increase the security posture of information systems and defend them from malicious attacks, and this might be an information security consultant or security analyst.