“As a young boy, I was taught in high school, hacking was cool.”
- Kevin Mitnick
Tell me what is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the term ‘hacking’? Brighten up your imagination a bit more and tell me how do you portray a ‘hacker’? Well, I am sure most of the will imagine a hacker as a geek, who is mysteriously attractive and is surrounded by many computers with codes running in them. One term that is used by the majority of the population to describe a hacker is ‘cool’. Today, we will try to know a bit more about this cool topic of hacking and to be precise, we will discuss ethical hacking.
What Is Ethical Hacking?
Before understanding the term ‘ethical hacking’, you should have a brief idea about the word ‘hacking’. …show more content…
So, what can make you an ethical hacker? The answer is you should have the spirit of a hacker. It means you should have the passion for learning about your field of interest. You should have the desire to excel in it. You can’t look up to fixed guides for showing you the road, you need to be creative and experimental to be a hacker. You should be a risk taker who can take the risk of learning new stuff without any guidance. Obviously, you will need the basic knowledge for hacking but then you can use that piece of information to be an ordinary penetration tester. Hacking demands something more than that.
“My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.”
- Kevin Mitnick
Would you like to know the names of few famous ethical hackers? Here are the top five ethical hackers of the world:-
Kevin Mitnick (a.k.a. The Condor)
Kevin Poulsen (a.k.a Dark Dante)
Adrian Lamo (a.k.a The Homeless Hacker)
Stephen Wozniak (a.k.a Berkeley Blue)
Loyd Blankenship (a.k.a The Mentor)
I would like to end the post with a statement made by Adrian Lamo.
“There’s no such thing as 100% safety, security, or privacy. All you can do is mitigate
- Kevin Mitnick
Tell me what is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the term ‘hacking’? Brighten up your imagination a bit more and tell me how do you portray a ‘hacker’? Well, I am sure most of the will imagine a hacker as a geek, who is mysteriously attractive and is surrounded by many computers with codes running in them. One term that is used by the majority of the population to describe a hacker is ‘cool’. Today, we will try to know a bit more about this cool topic of hacking and to be precise, we will discuss ethical hacking.
What Is Ethical Hacking?
Before understanding the term ‘ethical hacking’, you should have a brief idea about the word ‘hacking’. …show more content…
So, what can make you an ethical hacker? The answer is you should have the spirit of a hacker. It means you should have the passion for learning about your field of interest. You should have the desire to excel in it. You can’t look up to fixed guides for showing you the road, you need to be creative and experimental to be a hacker. You should be a risk taker who can take the risk of learning new stuff without any guidance. Obviously, you will need the basic knowledge for hacking but then you can use that piece of information to be an ordinary penetration tester. Hacking demands something more than that.
“My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.”
- Kevin Mitnick
Would you like to know the names of few famous ethical hackers? Here are the top five ethical hackers of the world:-
Kevin Mitnick (a.k.a. The Condor)
Kevin Poulsen (a.k.a Dark Dante)
Adrian Lamo (a.k.a The Homeless Hacker)
Stephen Wozniak (a.k.a Berkeley Blue)
Loyd Blankenship (a.k.a The Mentor)
I would like to end the post with a statement made by Adrian Lamo.
“There’s no such thing as 100% safety, security, or privacy. All you can do is mitigate