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Ethical Hacking: Does Such Thing Exist?

Posted By: Alex on August 6, 2010 at 11:21 am

ethical hacking Ethical Hacking: Does Such Thing Exist?Typically when you hear the word “hacker” it you get the idea of someone who, with evil intent, searches for ways to mine your personal/company data and destroy or replace data.

However, an ethical hacker or white hat hacker is someone who practices the so called Ethical Hacking and could use his abilities to harm your business, but he makes the choice to help uncover security failings in your system and then help you to find ways to protect your company from other hackers.

Ethical Hacking and Ethical Hackers

Ethical hackers are, in this way, helpful to many companies and they can protect their online business by closing the backdoor entrance to -would be- hackers and company data can be safeguarded. Customers often experience an even greater level of trust and security in the online business resulting in improved performance in online sales and uptime.

Maybe this explains why so many of the larger online businesses seem to have less downtime and experience fewer problems. Most hackers know they will have a harder time getting into these systems than smaller companies that may not have the resources to investigate every possible security leak.

Therefore, it is important for any online business to make sure they take proper measures by installing anti-virus protection, spyware removal tools and firewall protection. This should not be a debated standpoint. Your customers deserve the safety that only you can provide through appropriate protective measures.

Hackers usually do not target a specific site since much as they do is to create software that looks to find an entrance to online business websites data and then they determine what can be found inside those sites they can infiltrate.

Some hackers even say they mean no harm; they simply are curious and have found new ways of finding out information. Too often this is information they should not have access to. Why do they do it then? Well, because they can.

Some hackers consider what they do is a mean of making the online environment safer for individuals and businesses. If they can disable an online store or take over a website they figure this proves what they have been saying all along: sites are not as safe online as some think.

It is fair to say that through hacker’s activity, we often have learned better ways to secure websites in general, and even more importantly, they have made clear that online business must remain vigilant in the safeguard of their company data.

Things have changed in an online sales environment and applying strong security measures to your site is not only in your best interest, but also the interest of your customers who place their trust in your ability to safeguard their data.

If an online company is large enough they might consider the ethical hacking services of a ethical hacker.

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Comment by shuaib
2011-02-08 01:57:59

there is nothing like ethical hacking. cracking methods used to hack a website.

Comment by Alex
2011-02-08 11:10:53

Hey shuaib,

The point of the article is that an ethical hacker makes the choice to help uncover security failings in your system and then help you to find ways to protect your company from other hackers, although it has the knowledge and abilities to potentially create damage to websites.

 
 
Comment by David Brager
2011-02-14 18:01:28

Those of us who were hackers in the 1970′s, with REAMS of printouts, mountains of punch cards, and miles of paper tape, the HACKER was the highest HONOR bestowed because, unlike programmers, we stuck to a problem until we found a solution, re-wrote someone else’s messy programming, developed documentation, and made sure that when it left the desk, we’d never see that problem again.

I call myself a HACKER because it was earned from hard work, focus, and honor. I merged BASIC with hypnosis to discover that humans are cyborg. I found a collective!

For how to decode a 42-point puzzle in the book of Matthew for the best remote viewing tools, please go to my blog via DavidBragerForPresident.com.

 
Comment by Rahul Gupta
2011-03-15 11:24:33

there is nothing like ethical hacking. cracking methods used to hack a website.

Comment by Alex
2011-03-15 15:52:24

Hey Rahul,

You might have not read fully the above article or you did not get the thinking behind.

Put it in few words an ethical hacking is when someone with the abilities of a hacker, use such abilities to protect your software or your business. Simple as that. Of course it needs your permission to do so…

 
 
Comment by haider
2011-12-22 05:22:35

ethical hacking is penetration testing

 
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