WHAT IS HACKING?

Your computer is like a house and a hacker is someone with pointy metal hats who change the gate scale the walls or use stolen keys to get inside to steal your most prized possession or damage your property

A hacker can mean different things depending on how the term is used.Every programmer dreams of being a hacker.Hackers are programming code jockeys that can throw together bits of miraculous pieces of programming seemingly at will .People who modify computer and other pieces of electronic behaviour are also sometimes called hackers

Being a hacker can also be a bad thing.A hacker or hack can some times be some one that has no grace or elegance in his work and throws his projects together haphazardly.There are two types of hackers.One is white hat hackers and Black hat hackers.White hat hackers are ethical hackers who are computer experts who attempt to gain access to a computer or network to detect vulnerabilities so that they can be patched.white hat hackers are also called sneakers,red teams or tiger teams.Black hat hackers gain unauthorised access to computers or network with malicious intent.They are also called crackers.For simplicity we have used the popular mass media definition of hackers interchangeably with crackers