: Ethical Hacking For Beginners
Document Summary
Section overview: this section introduces the concept of hacking and its evolution into a discipline for the computing community. Hacking is the process of finding vulnerabilities in a system and using these found vulnerabilities to gain unauthorized access into the system to perform malicious activities. Hacking can be legal if done with permission, as computer experts are often hired by companies to hack into their systems to find out vulnerabilities and weak endpoints so that they can be fixed. Ethical hackers are people who hack into a system with permission without any malicious intent. White hat hackers, also known as ethical hackers, hack into a system with prior permission to find out vulnerabilities so that they can be fixed before someone with malicious intents finds them. Black hat hackers, also known as crackers, are those who hack in order to gain unauthorized access to a system and harm its operations or steal sensitive information.
