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In the old age of the Internet,
a hacker was presumed to be an expert in computers. Today hacking
means malicious attack of a computer system.
What is Hacking?
Hacking is fundamentally intruding into a system
using malicious tools. This could be virus, worm, a trojan horse, a
vulnerability scanner, and even social engineering. Once a system has
been compromised through hacking, the person who hack could do any of
the following.
 | Might obtain complete or partial control of that
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| He may be able to corrupt, or elicit data through
hacking. |
If it is an e-commerce website that is compromised
through hacking, it could be possible to elicit credit card
information from a database. This is is not a very difficult process
to follow for an individual who is bent on doing this.
Are you at risk?
On the Internet, connected systems (Including your
own PC is being continuously scanned) to find systems that can be
hacked or affected by malicious tools. Hence hacking affects all and
everyone must install the defense systems.
How do you defend?
If you install a firewall like Mcafee Firewall which
can show an event log of what is going on in your PC while you are
connected to the Internet, you can find that many attempts of hacking
into your PC is always taking place. Details of how it is actually
done is bit more technical and can involve detailing the workings of
TCP/IP protocol which is the at the core of the global
Internet. However to view hacking events, firewalls like Mcafee
provide easy tools.
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HackerWatch.org:
This is a community and collection point for Internet users to
report and share information to block and catch 'hackers' and
other unwanted traffic.
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Firewalls
prevent hacking:
Basic purpose of a firewall is to
prevent hacking. |
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