what does computer hacking mean?
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going where ,someone does not want u to go
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A computer that is not constantly kept secure and up to date is vulnerable to many different attacks. The most common is an automated hacking attack called a worm. Worms hack into computers that have security vulnerabilities, then use those computers as slaves to hack into every other computer on the network. Whenever you are vulnerable to a worm, you are also vulnerable to a manual hacking attempt. \n\nThe main objective of a worm or hacking attempt is usually to hack into more computers. It appears to anyone on the network that the infected computer is attempting to hack into their computer directly. ISD takes all hacking attempts seriously and will block network access for any computer that appears to be attempting to hack into other computers. ISD can only enable these computers after the worm or problem is fully removed and all relevant security patches have been applied. \n\nThere are other serious implications of hacks and worms. Some attacks aim to steal passwords, software license keys, and credit card numbers. Some attacks turn the computer into a slave computer of the hacker, possibly filling up the hard drive and utilizing your entire network connection.
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A hacker is a person who creates and modifies computer software and computer hardware, including computer programming, administration, and security-related items.\n\nIn computer programming, a hacker is a programmer who hacks or reaches a goal by employing a series of modifications to exploit or extend existing code or resources. For some, hacker has a negative connotation and refers to a person who "hacks" or uses kludges to accomplish programming tasks that are ugly, inelegant, and inefficient. The negative form of the noun "hack" is even used among users of the positive sense of "hacker".\n\nIn computer security, a hacker is a person able to exploit a system or gain unauthorized access through skill and tactics\n----- Wikipedia -----\n\nIn my own words, why do they do it? to test security and for fun.
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The computer term is probably from the metaphor of continually hacking or chopping away at something until it finally gives way.
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Unauthorized use, or attempts to circumvent or bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network
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any time you open anything on you computer you are at risk.the hackers are always busy looking
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Annual hacking game teaches security lessons\n\nhttp://www.securityfocus.com/news/11269\n\n:> peace
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It mean its trying to install some plugin/spyware to your machine. Get out of the website immediatly.
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I used to think hacking was cool after I watched the movie Hackers, but now I think its a load of rubbish. Half the hackers I have encountered in my life are really boring people who lack creativity, and most of them are just wannabe hackers who give the impression that they know allot about computers to lay people but who in fact know very little. There are such things as ethical hackers but they are just an ideal glorified in the movies and in reality they are few and far betwean. Most hackers are insincear little morans who make friends with people and use social engineering to obtain passwords or to encourage people to accept their files (like through yahoo messenger) pretending they are photos - when in fact they are little trojans. Many hackers just vandelise and destroy others computers, or simply moniter their activitys on the computer. Hackers are really little whimps who feel like gods who are totally in control on their computers.
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To stop attacks on on your systems by hackers, viruses, worms etc.
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Example: Hacking and cracking the secured (even private) database of some companies. Other crimes might include sending a computer virus to crash an important company's system.
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Hacking is obvious, but also make sure someone is not surfing on the server. This is opening the chances of viruses. Constantly updating definition device on the AntiVirus program.
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What kind of hacking are we talking about? Computer or with an axe?
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A hacker is a person who creates and modifies computer software and computer hardware, including computer programming, administration, and security-related items. The term usually bears strong connotations, but may be either positive or negative depending on cultural context\nAmong computer programmers in good standing with the technical community, the words hacker and hacking is used more often in the admiring or awed sense of a wizard software developer. People favoring this usage typically look with dismay on the usage of the term as a synonym for security cracking.\n\nIn the non-technical community, the concept of wizard programmer is poorly known, and the meaning of hacker as someone who "hacks into" a system by evading or disabling security measures...
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There is none. \n\nGo get a life and do your homework. Hacking is illegal and I find this offensive.
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its just a SHOW OFF thing..\n\nno hacker would tell that....\n\nJUST SAY THANK YOU..because i can finaly try my new found NUKER WHICH is set to nuke anyone to access my damm PC...\nand it causes your pc to be raptured.... :)
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Two of their most common tools are social engineering and human laziness.\n\nMany times hackers gain access to "protected" systems simply by using a default password that an administrator didn't bother to change. One of the first well known groups was heralded in the press as "young computer geniuses" for breaking into systems when all they did was use the default password that they had learned at computer camp.\n\nSocial engineering is tricking people into giving away  passwords or access to a system. Phishing is a form of social engineering. Phishers try to convince you that they are someone in authority and that you should give them the information they need to do their job.\n\nA lot of straight out cracking is accomplished by discovering that a program's error recovery routines are not written as well as they should be. The crackers create errors designed to create behavior that was not foreseen by the program's developers.\n\nAs far as exact methods, you should not be able to get that information here.