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We often hear cases of hacking where people hack into the networks of the organisations but ethical hacking can help prevent this from happening.Generally we refer to the term "hacker" as a derisive term however it is quite wrong.In fact they can be viewed as people who have expertise in computer based subjects.Last but not least, ethical hacking can also be used to maintain national security.

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1> FACEBOOK

2> YOUTUBE

3> TWITTER

4> AIRBNB

5> QUORA

6> EVENTBRITE

7> TREEHOUSE

All these websites were founded by the world renowned hackers and hence hacking can also provide the world the successful people breaking the myth that hackers can only be criminals and nothing else.

Unethical hacking and cyber crime are the terms to describe activities of an individual or a group of people who break into computer systems without permission or the owner for the purpose of stealing information or money. There have been many incidents of hackers stealing the information of security systems, money and important confidential documents. These unethical hackers are threats for a country's security and progress.

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This article gives an insight into the world of unethical hacking and cyber crime. It first differentiates hackers from crackers. Hackers are talented programmers who discover security holes in a system and reasons of such holes. Hackers don't intentionally damage data. Crackers are those persons who break into other computers without the owner's permission with malicious intent. But most of the people around the globe use the term 'HACKER' in place of 'CRACKER'. Unethical hackers do this mostly because they are passionate about breaking into a system. Hacking and cyber crime are somewhat related to each other. Most of the cyber crimes are done with the help of hacking only. Cyber crime can be divided into different categories according to type of offence. To stop these criminal activities, education should be provided, not only to children but also to adults. Involvement of law is also very important to control such activities. It has been observed that some companies don't report cyber crimes because of the fear of bad reputation, which encourage the unethical hackers.

-EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

-BUSINESS FIRMS

-MULTI NATIONAL COMPANIES

-IT FIRMS

-NATIONAL SECURITY (the most important of all)

1> Security Consultants in FBI: World's most famous security intelligence agency appointed the hackers as security consultants in their agency.

2>FACEBOOK: It's the most used social website in present time. It made MARK the youngest billionaire of the world .It's the most successful startup in present scenario.

3>Editor in wired.

4>Security Consultant in Milliatry.

Hacker and cracker are completely different terms. Both hacker and cracker are computer programmers with knowledge of many programming languages and computer systems. Hackers use their knowledge for ethical purposes. They built internet, made World Wide Web. They made the unix operating system what it is today. On the other hand, crackers use their knowledge for unethical purposes such as breaking into other computer systems without permission and stealing data or other useful information.

But the term hacker is used worldwide in place of cracker. So we will use unethical hacker or hacking to in place of cracker or cracking.

• Because they like the challenge to break into other systems
• They seek publicity
• They may want to take revenge from someone
• They have passion and use their knowledge in the wrong way

1) Unauthorised access

2) Damage to computer data or programs

3) Causing damage to hinder functioning of a computer system or network

4) Unauthorised interception of data to, from and within a system or network

5) Computer espionage - The act of obtaining secrets without permission of the owner (individual, group, competitors or governments, etc.) of information for personal, economic, political or military advantage.

• The best thing for companies to prevent hacking attacks is to think like unethical hackers. They should find loopholes and software that can be used for hacking and should remove them.
• Education should be provided to children from childhood about cyber crime and cyber ethics.
• Both children and adults should be educated with latest technology, threats and ways to tackle them.
• Companies should notify their employees about th latest threats, softwares and laws related to cyber crime.

After deciding my topic, I had to look for an article relevant to it. So I started searching for article in newspapers, journals, internet and BITS HYDERABAD e-library. I got few articles, out of which I have selected the one already uploaded. I got this article on AMC DIGITAL LIBRARY (link of which is given in BITS HYDERABAD e-library). In this way BITS e-library helped me a lot to find the correct article for me.

1. Name of Book - InfoSecCD '04 Proceedings of the 1st annual conference on Information security curriculum development
2. Name of Author - Nataliya B. Sukhai
3. Publisher Name - ACM, New York
4. City of Publication - New York, USA
5. Date of Publication - 08-10-2004 (dd-mm-yyyy)
6. Link to Download my Article -http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1059553
7. Difference between hacker and cracker -http://www.techlila.com/difference-hacker-cracker/
8. Slide Show - http://www.slideshare.net/bizsprite/hacking-and-its-prevention

1> google.com

2> britannica.com

3>ryancarson.com

4>ib-article.com

5>thoughtcatalog.com

6>telegraph.co.uk

7>imdb.com

8>nndb.com

9>mitnicksecurity.com

with the help of these websites i collected the individual articles on the famous personalities related to the world of hacking.

1)Name of the journal : GSEC PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENT

2)Name of the author:DAVID.M.HAFELE

3)Date of publishing:February 22,2004

4)Publisher name:SANS INSTITUTE

5)http://www.redsiren.com/education.htm

6) http://www.ins.com/ Downloads/publications/risk_management_0703cover.pdf

7): http://www.giac.org/practical/GSEC/Ida_Boyd_GSEC.pdf

8)A youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyCjrO_APJQ

9) http://www.arin.net.whois

If I would have to take a survey on 'Unethical hacking and Cyber Crime', my target audience would have been IT companies, businessmen, banks, etc.

QUESTIONNAIRE:

1. Are you aware of Unethical Hacking and Cyber Crime?
2. Have you been a victim of hacking in last 5 years? If yes, then how many times?
3. What was the motive (money, information or damage, etc.) of attacks in maximum number of cases?
4. What measures have you taken to prevent such attacks in future?
5. Have you reported all these cases to cyber crime cell? If not, then why?
6. How many times were the culprits identified and caught?

1)What is ethical hacking?

2)What are the types of ethical hackers?

3)What are the different stages in ethical hacking?

4)What are the areas in which ethical hacking has been successful?

5))What are the areas in which ethical hacking has been successful?

1> Do you know what you get from hacking?

2>What are the job options you can have if you persue hacking as a career?

3>Do you know people from the hacking field who are now the aspirations of others?

4>What a hacker can do ?

5>Why hackers are important in today's modern era??

WHAT WOULD I INFER FROM THEIR?

From the above questioner, i would like to know how the common people know about the prospects of hacking as a career. I would like to aware people about hacking as a career and also make them know that what all they can get from this field and how they can become successful by choosing hacking as their career.

1. Data retrieval - The process of selecting and extracting data from a file, a group of files or from a database
2. Usenet - An early non-centralized computer network for the discussion of particular topics and the sharing of files via newsgroup
3. Cybercitizenship / Cyber ethics / Netiquette - Responsible social behaviour of an individual while online (when no one else is looking)
4. Security holes - Flaw or susceptibility in a system that can be exploited for the purpose of hacking
5. Security patches - Security update to a computer program
6. Dumpster diving - Retriving information from trash (useless data) which can be used to attack a computer network
7. Shredding - A process of deleting a file from computer such that it cannot be retrieved again
8. Cyber-terrorism - Hacking for the purpose of causing terror
9. Cyberspace - The notional environment in which communication over computer network occurs

1.FIREWALL-a protection from unauhorised access

2.ENIGMA-a thing which is mysterious or difficult to uderstand

3.PENETRATION TEST-a software attack on a computer system which looks for security weakness

4.PEDILECTION-a peference or apecial liking for something

5.PSYCHODYNAMICS-an approach to psychology that emphasizes systematic study

6.UBIQUITOUS-something which is found everywhere

7.MODUS OPERANDI-a method of doing something

8.DISGRUNTLED-angry or dissatisified

9.SURREPTITIOUS-kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of

10.DELINEATING-describe or portray

The above questioner can help me understand the reach of ethical hacking into common people.With their inputs i can estimate in which manner i can propagate the benefits of ethical hacking.I will also know whether people are well equipped with ethical hacking or not.All these measures can help me to popularise ethical hacking to bring it into our daily usage.I also plan to advertise the success stories of ethical hacking so as to widen the target audience of ethical hacking.

1.Helps businesses to adjust their security technologies by sharing advanced security knowledge and expertise.

2.It can help prioritise security efforts and improve security tools.

3.Ethical hackers can identify missed false-negatives and eliminate false-positives .

4.It can help prevent terrorist attacks and other unforseen incidents.

5.Companies can ensure that their products are not misused(Ex-apple can prevent jailbreaking)

6.To ensure that government servers are secure(it was recently found in a survey that police cars in US could be hacked)

Unethical hacking is a wrong thing. So it does not have any direct applications. Below are the applications of ethical hacking which are done in unethical ways.

1. To control terrorism - Hacking can be used to get into the computers of terrorists and steal useful information. This can help us control many terrorist activities.
2. To control cybercrime - Hacking can be used to get into systems of Unethical Hackers to control their activities.
3. Police can take the help of hackers to get important information from a suspect's computer in case of criminal cases.
4. To bring back the black money - Hackers can be appointed by government to hack bank accounts of corrupted government employees so as to bring black money back to the country.

Ethical hackers keep monitoring security systems of companies round the clock.So they provide customers with objective,real time analysis of their security systems and end user practices.The ethical hacking firms keep giving regular reports on the companies performance.These involve advice regarding the companies performance,requirement and capabilities.In this manner they can help prioritise security efforts and improve security systems.If any advancements are required, the companies based on the report given by the ethical hacking firms,can resort to measures such as training and software development.

1. THREAT ANALYST: It is a person who analyse the threats in cyber world and can take proper measures against them.

2. ATARI BASIC: It is a high level language used for computer programming. It stands for Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instructions Codes.

3. WIKI SPY: It is a malware designed by several people to spy in the others computers to steal the crucial information.

4. ARPANET: The Advanced Research Project Agency Network is a packet switching network and the first network to implement the suit of TCP/IP.

5. WIRE FRAUD: Financial fraud involving the use of telecommunications or information technology.

6. MONEY LAUNDERING: It is the generic term used to describe the process by which criminals disguise the original ownership and control of the proceeds of criminal conduct by making such proceeds appear to have derived from a legitimate source.

7. NEFARIOUS: It is wicked or criminal activities.

1. E-Commerce Security: One of the main problem that the cyber world is facing today is the security problem. So Hackers can secure the websites so that crackers who are trying to steal the information from the website can be restricted from doing so.

2. Phone Hacking: The practice of intercepting telephone calls or voicemail messages without the consent of the phone's owner. This can help the security agencies to trace the call of the terrorists and decode the information.

3. E-mail Hacking: This involves the intercepting of anyone's mail account without even their consent and this can also be helpful in controlling the anti communal organization's activities.

4. Network Hacking: It generally means the gathering of the information over the domain using methods like continus pinging, tracert etc.

Hackers are the guards of cyber world. They protect the crackers from getting access of the precious information which can be problematic for the certain industry or the firm. Thus, they help in building security walls online and protect it from crackers.

Hackers can also keep track of all the malicious activities which are going on by tracking the emails and phone calls of the people which might be trying to harm the societies through there activities.

One of the most feasible and important applications of hacking can be to control terrorism. Terrorism is one of the most concerned problem in INDIA. Every year, many people lost lives due to terrorist activities. Hacking can play a major role in reducing the number of such activities and identifying the location and catching the terrorists as most of the terrorist activities requires the use of computer, mobiles etc. for communication and instructions which can be hacked.