The explosive growth of the Internet has
brought many good things: electronic commerce, easy access to vast stores of
reference material, collaborative computing, e-mail, and new avenues for
advertising and information distribution, to name a few. As with most
technological advances, there is also a dark side: criminal hackers.
Governments, companies, and private citizens around the world are anxious to be
a part of this revolution, but they are afraid that some hacker will break into
their Web server and replace their logo with pornography, read their e-mail,
steal their credit card number from an on-line shopping site, or implant
software that will secretly transmit their organization's secrets to the open
Internet. With these concerns and others, the ethical hacker can help. This
paper describes ethical hackers: their skills, their attitudes, and how they go
about helping their customers find and plug up security holes.
The term "hacker" has a dual usage
in the computer industry today. Originally, the term was defined as:
HACKER
1.
A person who enjoys learning the details of
computer systems and how to stretch their capabilities—as opposed to most users of
computers, who prefer to learn only the minimum amount necessary.
2.
One who programs enthusiastically or who
enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming.
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