Our Life is Belong to ethical Hacking!

What is Hacking?

·        Hacking is the art of finding solutions to real life problems.

·        The word “Hack “is not directly related to computers.

Hacking and Computers

The concept of hacking entered the computer culture at the MIT University in the 1960s.

There are two kinds of students

1. Tools      2. Hackers

Ethical Hacking

Ø  Tools:  A ``tool is someone who attends class in the college regularly

Ø  is always to be found in the library when no class is meeting,

Ø  Always try to get excellent grades in the examination.

Ø  Sole Aim: get placed in high paying Company

Ø  2. Hacker ``hacker is the opposite: someone who never goes to class.

Ø  who in fact sleeps all day

Ø  And who spends the night pursuing recreational activities rather than studying text books.

Hackers vs. Tools

·        There are standards for success as a hacker, just as grades form a standard for success as a tool.

·        Overall Hackers are more successful in life and they emerge as a leader in their field.

Computer Hackers

·        Hackers are developers.

·        Hackers are those geeks and scientists who provide IT solutions to real life problems.

·        Hackers think beyond the boundaries

 Traits of any Hack

·        It must be clever.

·        It must produce more good than bad, and it must not be malicious.

·        It should be unexpected, or out of the ordinary.

·        It need not pertain to computers.

 Hack Ideas

·        Social Networking site for plants.

·        Sending sms to smart phone whenever a post man delivers the letter in the letter box.

·        Sending sms to near & dear ones whenever you reach the destination.

Who is Responsible for misconception?

Ø  Media is the root cause of all this misconception.

Ø  Lack of Awareness among common students and people.

 Crackers

Ø  One who breaks into systems illegally are crackers.

Ø  They are bad guys or gals

 Hacker vs. Cracker

ü  Qualities of hacker:

 Lots of knowledge Good Guy Strong Ethics Helps in catching cyber criminals

ü  Hacker vs. Cracker

Qualities of cracker Lots of knowledge Bad ethics Cyber criminals

 Skills of Hacker

·        Learn Programming languages ( C, C++)

·        Learn scripting languages ( JSP, Python, PHP, Perl )

·        Good knowledge of database and query languages (SQL, YQL, FQL, etc.)

·        Learn Networking (TCP/IP)

·         Learn to work in Unix

·        Start playing with web api’s

·        Learn Assembly Programming

Web Architecture

·        The Internet is a worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data using the standard Internet Protocol (IP).

·        The terms World Wide Web (WWW) and Internet are not the same

 Internet, web, www

·        The Internet is a collection of interconnected computer networks, linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, etc.

·        Web is a collection of interconnected documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs.

·        The World Wide Web is one of the services accessible via the Internet, along with various others including e-mail, file sharing, online gaming etc.