Hacking Facts

Hacking refers to an array of activities which are done to intrude some one else’s personal information space so as to use it for malicious, unwanted purposes.

When someone finds an exploit and use it for stealing vital information from your system is known as hacking.

This could affect your account with any of the following:

• Loss of information
• Unauthorized access of resources
• Unwanted mails sent from your mail ID
• Loss of ID and password
• Financial crime
• Downloading information using fake id and password

Hacking can affect you in many ways, If your account get hacked it can be used in many ways,

1. A One can read your important emails with confidential stuffs like PICS,CONVOS etc.
2. The hacker can send a CC fraud page link or scam link to your friends by pretending like you.
3. He can affect more people from your friend list who will accept his software by not knowing that the person sitting behind your id is not you.
4. Hacker can actually get your Street address from your local friends who are added in your list.

Hacking is a term used to refer to activities aimed at exploiting securty flaws to obtain critical information for gaining access to secured networks. Hacking is something more than the usually thought 'hit and trial' method of matching Username and Password combinations.
Hacking involves the use of advanced software (scripts) to try and gain access into secure networks. A secure network (server) address always begins with 'https://' instead of the common 'http://'.

Vulnerability of secured networks is much less than unsecured networks and hackers usually target high-value targets; just like robbers would target a big multinational bank instead of a local money lender.

THE REAL TERM HACKING refers to an 'ART'. It is an art which defines and allows the knowledge of a user to speak his mind. It was a term which was associated with the guys who knew almost everything about the computer in the late 60's. Gradually the reputation of the hackers deteriorated as there were some illegal uses of the knowledge. So in mid 80's, these guys who exploited their knowledge in wrong direction were classified to another name as CRACKERS. So the hackers are gud people who help to secure one's system/server/ etc,,, etc... So hacking term is associated with gud people and cracking term is associated with bad people.