IT Management & Cyber Security

Hacking in the field of computer security refers to exploiting system vulnerabilities and compromising security controls to gain unauthorized or inappropriate access to system resources. It involves modifying system or application features to achieve a goal outside its creator's original purpose. Hacking can be done to steal, pilfer, and redistribute intellectual property, thus leading to business loss. Hacking on computer networks is generally done by means of scripts or other network programming. Network hacking techniques include creating viruses and worms, performing denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, establishing unauthorized remote access connections to a device using Trojans/backdoor, creating botnets, packet sniffing, phishing, and password cracking. The motive behind hacking could be to steal critical information and/or services, for thrill, intellectual challenge, curiosity, experiment, knowledge, financial gain, prestige, power, peer recognition, vengeance and vind