What is ethical hacking?-2

What is ethical hacking?


With the growth of computer networking, and of the
Internet in particular, computer and network vulnerability
studies began to appear outside of the military
establishment. Most notable of these was the
work by Farmer and Venema,8 which was originally
posted to Usenet9 in December of 1993. They discussed
publicly, perhaps for the first time,10 this idea
of using the techniques of the hacker to assess the
security of a system. With the goal of raising the overall
level of security on the Internet and intranets, they
proceeded to describe how they were able to gather
enough information about their targets to have been
able to compromise security if they had chosen to
do so. They provided several specific examples of
how this information could be gathered and exploited
to gain control of the target, and how such an attack
could be prevented.