Question

What is hacking? Also name the types of hacking. ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Hackers can be classified into different categories such as white hat, black hat, and grey hat, based on their intent of hacking a system. These different terms come from old Spaghetti Westerns, where the bad guy wears a black cowboy hat and the good guy wears a white hat.

Answer 2

☘ Required Answer ☘

Hacking is the act of finding the possible entry points that exist in a computer system or a computer network and finally entering them.

• Hacking is done to gain unauthorized access to a computer system or computer network, either harm the systems or to steal any important information available in the computer.

Types of Hacking:

• Website Hacking : Hacking a website means taking unauthorized control over a web server and its associated software such as databases and many more.

• Email Hacking : In this, the hacker gets the unauthorized access on an Email account and uses it without taking tje consent or its owner.

• Ethical Hacking : In ethical hacking, hacker finds weakness in a computer or network system for testing purpose and finally getting them fixed.

• Computer Hacking : This is the hacking which is the process or stealing computer ID and password by applying hacking methods and getting unauthorized access to a computer system.

• Password Hacking : In this, the hacker recovers the secret passwords from data that has been stored in or transmitted by a computer system.

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☘ More Information ☘

• Hacking is done by a hacker.

• A hacker is a computer expert who does the act or hacking.

• There are three types of hackers on their intent of hacking a system:

» Ethical hacker ( White Hat )

» Cracker ( Black Hat )

» Grey Hat

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