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What is Hacking and Who is the Hacker ? Explained

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Hacking is considered a crime and a hacker a guy sitting in his garage doing miracles with mouse clicks. Taking down websites, stealing secret govt. information. Ripping people off their email and bank accounts. Girl’s like them *wink*.

A hacker is someone who can make a computer do what he wants whether the computer wants to or not.

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A few years ago I also believed this and thought of hacking as bad and every hacker a computer criminal. At first, “hacker” was a positive term for a person with a mastery of computers who could push programs beyond what they were designed to do. Later it became associated with computer vandals intent on harming systems and this is where it stands today.

The word “Hacker” is subject to a long standing definition controversy. (more…)

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Cyber Warfare is Reality

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Cyber warfare is a situation when the world is at a cyber war (using computer and internet to conduct warfare) where hackers aided by the govt. will try to compromise enemy nations data sharing infrastructure (Defense systems, Power grid, Stock exchange, Water supply) which will damage the target country to the farthest extent possible. Cyber Attacks can be of any type. It can be series of DDOS attacks or data manipulation rather than theft or destruction.

Countries prepping for cyberwar

In Cyberspace battles are fought in nanoseconds, Cyber attacks can be on a large scale(ddos) or may be discrete like the enemy has entered your system and manipulated your data and may have installed a backdoor, you come to know about it later. Sometimes the enemy hits you so bad that you become defenseless and are forced to surrender so precautions are necessary. Attacks can be made on Military as well as private networks, the target could be a Defense system or Air traffic control or may be a Power grid. (more…)

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