What is an ethical hacking?


What is an ethical hacking?
What is an ethical hacking?


What are hacking and ethical hacking?

Do you know what hacking is and what are its types? In today's modern era, the demand for computers and mobiles is increasing, it has become a very important thing for the people. For example, whether you have your own business or working in a company or bank, computers are being used everywhere. Because with the help of computer all the work gets done very quickly.

In today's time, all of you must have known about cybercrime, if you do not know, then we tell you. Cybercrime is a type of crime in which hackers hack many computers and steal all the necessary data and then misuse that data. Due to cybercrime, nowadays the right big organization has to spend a lot of money to keep its data safe. Cybercrime is increasing in the computer world, in such a situation, keeping the necessary data safe in the computer has become a big challenge. So today we will tell you what is hacking and what does it mean?

What does hacking mean?

Finding any kind of weakness in the computer and then taking advantage of it to hack the computer, hacking is done by a person through a computer, which we call a hacker. Hackers have a lot of computer knowledge. That's why they easily steal the data from the computer.

History and what is done in hacking?

Hacking has been a huge part of computing for a long time we first find when this hacking happened, then we will know that it was first used in 1960 by MIT, and at the same time this word "Hacker" was also born and later became very famous also.

 If we talk about hacking in technical, then in this hackers find a possible entry in any computer network or computer system, then by entering the network, they spoil the network and steal the data.

Hacking is considered legal when a hacker finds the weakness of the computer and fixes it. Some hackers do this work for testing purposes, this type of hacking is called ethical hacking.

Types of hacking

Website Hacking: - In website hacking, hackers gain unauthorized control over the webserver and its associated software such as database and many interfaces and do such hacking.

Network Hacking: - In-network hacking, hackers enter the entire network and get all the information. There are many tools to do this such as nslookup, ping, telnet, etc. The main job of doing this is to degrade the network.

Email Hacking: - In today's time, email hacking has increased a lot, in which hackers get unauthorized access to the email account without the permission of the owner. Later misuses that email and shares a lot of spam messages on the email.

Ethical Hacking: - Ethical hacking is said when the hacker finds the weakness of a network or system and fixes it, it is called safe hacking process for the owner.

Password Hacking: - In this type of hacking, the secret password of the computer is recovered from the data which is stored in the computer.


How many types of hackers are there?

There are generally three types of hackers.

1. Black hat hacker

2. White hat hacker

3. Gray hat hacker

1. Black hat hacker

There are many black hat hackers in today's time. They can easily hack any computer and steal all the personal and business-related data of the user.

These hackers access our transaction details. Many hackers also, run or hack all the functions of the computer system on their own.

2. White hat hacker

White hat hackers are those who protect all computer users from hacking and cybercrime. These hackers do the exact opposite of black hat hackers. These hackers do all the work only after getting the permission of the user. To check all the security in the computer, we have to take the help of white hat hackers.

A white hat hacker is also called an ethical hacker.

3. Gray hat hacker

There are also gray hat hackers between white hat hackers and black hat hackers. Gray hat hackers are also called hybrid hackers. These hackers can also hack the computer. Without anyone's permission, it never steals data and does not cause any damage to the system.

Famous ethical hacker of India

Rahul Tyagi

An kit Fadia

Trishnit Arora

Manan Shah

Vaidehi Sachin

Sahil Khan

What is ethical hacking? Is this legal or illegal?

By now you must have known that there are three types of hacking. Ethical hacking is a legal work in which all the work is done with the approval of the user. Ethical hacking improves the security of the entire computer system.

To hack the ethical hacker system, following many rules, permission has to be taken from the owner of the computer, protects the privacy of the computer so that no one else can hack the computer By doing all these work, ethical hacker protects a person or company from bad hackers.

Advantages of Ethical Hacking

This can help you recover lost information, especially when you forget your password. With this, we can perform penetration testing so that we can check the strength of any computer or network security.

This allows us to prevent security breaches quite preventative measures can be taken.

On learning this, we can use it to protect our computer from malicious hackers.

You can also find out the privacy strength of any computer. So that you will know how strong it has to be.

Disadvantages of Ethical Hacking

So let us now know about some disadvantages of Ethical Hacking.

When after learning ethical hacking, people start doing the wrong things in the greed of money. With this, we can get unauthorized access to someone's system and know their private information.

With this, we can also commit a privacy violation.

Any system operation can also be damaged if it is misused What is the work in Ethical Hacking?

As we have told you that an ethical hacker is a cyber-expert who protects the data from any kind of cyber-attack or hacking. This means that the job of an ethical hacker is mainly to prevent cyber-attacks and keep data safe. But even in this, there are some special works of an ethical hacker.

The main job of an ethical hacker is to check the security of the company's computer system so that it can protect the company's data from being hacked or stolen. Also, they detect those loopholes in the computer system, due to which other hackers carry out cybercrime. Apart from this, even if there is any kind of cybercrime, he helps in every possible way in catching the cybercriminal.