| The explosive growth and advancement of the | | | | skills, their attitudes, and how they go about helping |
| Internet has brought many good things and services: | | | | their customers find and plug up security holes and |
| Electronic commerce, easy access to vast stores of | | | | back doors and loose points. The ethical hacking |
| reference material and information, collaborative | | | | process is explained, along with many of the |
| computing, e-mail, and new avenues for advertising | | | | problems(threats) that the Global Security Analysis Lab |
| and information distribution, online gaming, socializing | | | | has seen during its early years of ethical hacking for |
| sites to name a few. As with most technological | | | | IBM clients. |
| advances, there is also a dark(Negative) side also: | | | | The term "HACKER" has a dual usage and meaning in |
| criminal hackers and Hacking. Governments, | | | | the computer industry today. Originally, the term was |
| companies, and private citizens around the world are | | | | defined as: |
| anxious to be a part of this revolution for the purpose | | | | HACKER noun :- |
| of evolution and development, but they are afraid that | | | | 1. A person who enjoys learning the details of |
| some hacker will break(creep) into their Web server | | | | computer systems and how to stretch their |
| and replace their logo with pornography or some | | | | capabilities-as opposed to most users of computers, |
| undesired stuff and all, read their e-mail, steal their | | | | who prefer to learn only the minimum amount |
| credit card number from an on-line shopping and | | | | necessary. |
| money transferring site, or implant software that will | | | | 2. One who programs enthusiastically or who enjoys |
| secretly transmit their organization's secrets to the | | | | programming rather than just theorizing or mugging up |
| open Internet (spyware etc). With these concerns and | | | | the programming. These persons are the amateurs of |
| others, the ethical hacker can help with the same | | | | programming who do it for self satisfaction and |
| problem. This paper describes ethical hackers: their | | | | enjoyment rather than any professional means. |