Hacking

"Someone who relates to technology as a form of play" Lee Felsenstein 

 

The term hacker is used in popular media to describe someone who try to gain the unauthorized access to once system or attempts to break into computer systems. Hacker would be a proficient programmer with sufficient knowledge to understand the weak points in a security system, might cause serious security threat to confidentiality and integrity of data.

Reason why most of the organization spent a lot in term of security is more or more organization moving their business process online. Because in an organization consist of various electronic documents that contain critical and highly confidential data and due to which organizations make a significant investment to properly protect these documents. 

Some technique hacker use to get access to a website inside. 

• Cross-site scripting
• Sql Injection
• Theft of FTP Password

Hacking does have some advantage to business, 

• building awareness about the protection and security at all levels
• finding out the possible vulnerabilities
• suggesting effective security procedure
• providing a support for current and future IT activities 

A professional hacker, hired by many organization and asked to break their system just to determine any security flaw in system. A hacker helps an organization in understanding the importance of  security with their experience of hacking, and displays the ways or series of steps an intruder can actually perform to harness the company resources for his own purpose. Professional security experts can efficiently by-pass the security solutions  and can gain access to the confidential data repository and network resources without any authentication. Afterwards, they reports all the possible threat areas and appropriate solution for the same in order to secure the organizational resources and perimeter efficiently.