Articles Ethical Hacking

International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, Volume 5, Issue 6, June 2015 ISSN 2250-3153 1 Ethical Hacking Susidharthaka Satapathy , Dr.Rasmi Ranjan Patra CSA, CPGS, OUAT, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India Abstract- In today's world where the information communication technique has brought the world together there is one of the increase growing areas is security of network ,which certainly generate discussion of ETHICAL HACKING . The main reason behind the discussion of ethical hacking is insecurity of the network i.e. hacking. The need of ethical hacking is to protect the system from the damage caused by the hackers. The main reason behind the study of ethical hacking is to evaluate target system security & report back to owner. This paper helps to generate a brief idea of ethical hacking & all its aspects. Index Terms- Hacker, security, firewall, automated, hacked, crackers I. I NTRODUCTION T he increasingly growth of internet has given an entrance passage to many things : e-commerce , email , social networking , online shopping & information distribution. As the technology advances it has its dark side; hackers. Govt. organization , private citizen & many companies of the world wants to be the part of this revolution. Being afraid of hackers as they could break into the web-server & create nuisance. To counter attack them ethical hacker's are used in the Govt. organization, companies etc. This paper describes the skills, attitude & how they helps the customer with the increasingly growth rate of internet network security has been a measure concern of Govt.& private organization. As different organization wants to take advantage of the internet but fail to do so, because of the possibility of being hacked. To minimize the risk of being hacked by the hackers the organizations realized the best possible ways to introduced the independent computer security professionals to make their way out. In computer security the ethical hackers employ's some tools & techniques that would neither damaged the system nor still information from it. Instead they would evaluate ways to secure then system & report back the owner with the threat they had found & how to cure them. II. HACKING It is a technique of modifying the features of system . The person who is continuously engaged in hacking activities and has accepted hacking as their choice are called hackers. III. ETHICAL HACKING Ethical hacking is the process which is focuses on securing & protecting computer system . Independent computer security professional breaks into the computer system and neither damaged the target system nor steal the information, they evaluate target system security and report back to the owner about the threats found. IV. FATHER OF HACKING In 1971, John Draper , aka captain crunch, was one of the best known early phone hacker & one of the few who can be called one of the father's of hacking. V. IS HACKING NECESSARY Hacking is not what we think , It is an art of exploring the threats in a system . Today it sounds something with negative shade , but it is not exactly that many professionals hack system so as to learn the deficiencies in them and to overcome from it and try to improve the system security. Hacking is not about breaking security of computer and network. Programmers, who know different computer languages very well, they themselves define as hackers, who are good at programming. Hacking in simple words: breaking into private party in silence and enjoy it. Which logically means trying to get into some ones private account or to steal the sensitive data and do things that are illegal? Ethical hackers are the people who can create a firewall according to your knowledge and needs and protect all weak spots to protect private data from being hacked. The word hacking is not illegal, computer programmers called themselves hackers because they can break into the system and solves the problem. VI. ROLE OF HACKERS Historically hackers plays a number of roles some of them are good and some of them are bad. On the one hand hackers are the programmer's to break into the system and find the problem causing the system and solve them which result in improved security. On the other hand hackers are the programmer's who break into the system and cause in security. Hacking is very important practice in the modern day society because hacker's are the experts in how the system functions and how the system can fail. VII. FEATURES OF ETHICAL HACKING ----- E.H. has some distinct features which when compared to security and problem scanning. -----It is highly or completely automated. ----- E.H. typically exploits the security in order to access the data or access another system. www.ijsrp.org