The Pros And Cons Of Ethical Hacking

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INTRODUCTION

Ethical hacking & ethical hacker are terms used to describe hacking performed by a company or individual to help identify potential threats on a computer or network. An ethical hacker attempts to bypass system security & search for any weak points that could be exploited by malicious hackers. This information is then used by the organization to improve the system security, in an effort to minimize or eliminate any potential attacks.
For hacking to be deemed ethical, the hacker must obey the following rules:
• Expressed (often written) permission to probe the network & attempt to identify potential security risks.

• You respect the individual 's or company 's privacy. …show more content…

In reality, there’s often a gray area. A gray-hat hacker falls somewhere between a black hat & a white hat. A gray hat doesn’t work for their own personal gain or to cause carnage, but they may technically commit crimes & do arguably unethical things.For example, a black hat hacker would compromise a computer system without permission, stealing the data inside for their own personal gain or vandalizing the system. A white-hat hacker would ask for permission before testing the system’s security & alert the organization after compromising it. A gray-hat hacker might attempt to compromise a computer system without permission, informing the organization after the fact & allowing them to fix the problem. While the gray-hat hacker didn’t use their access for bad purposes, they compromised a security system without permission, which is …show more content…

An IP address serves two principal functions; host or network interface identification & location addressing. Its role has been characterized as follows: A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how to get there.The designers of the Internet Protocol defined an IP address as a 32-bit number & this system, known as Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), is still in use today. However, because of the growth of the Internet & the predicted depletion of available addresses, a new version of IP (IPv6), using 128 bits for the address, was developed in 1995. IPv6 was standardized as RFC 2460 in 1998, & its deployment has been ongoing since the

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