Ethical hacking new ideas

Ethical hacking new ideas 

The explosive growth of the Internet has brought
many good things: electronic commerce, easy
access to vast stores of reference material,
collaborative computing, e-mail, and new
avenues for advertising and information
distribution, to name a few. As with most
technological advances, there is also a dark side:
criminal hackers. Governments, companies, and
private citizens around the world are anxious to
be a part of this revolution, but they are afraid
that some hacker will break into their Web server
and replace their logo with pornography, read
their e-mail, steal their credit card number from
an on-line shopping site, or implant software that
will secretly transmit their organization’s secrets
to the open Internet. With these concerns and
others, the ethical hacker can help. This paper
describes ethical hackers: their skills, their
attitudes, and how they go about helping their
customers find and plug up security holes. The
ethical hacking process is explained, along with
many of the problems that the Global Security
Analysis Lab has seen during its early years of
ethical hacking for IBM clients.