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What is hacking?
Selorm Jonathan Amegashie
April 1i, 2017
It is a process of computer technology under
which information is acquired illegally or legally.
There are several classes or groups of hackers they
include;
White hat hackers
Gray hat hackers
Black hat hackers (bad boys)
Hackers are in one
way or the other people with some level of
understanding in computer programming. This gives
them the knowhow of the concept of vulnerability, which are back
doors to every software that run on devices. These
backdoors are the tools every hacker uses to achieve
hacking.
My studies and practice of the cyber security craft
has given me a clear understanding that no computer
is secure. Every programmer leaves vulnerabilities
in his or her software, which serves as backdoor.
These backdoors enable the manufacturer to correct certain
mistakes should they happen and if they happen.
Studying the vulnerability of every computer
technology is a duty for all cyber security persons
to help protect computers against hacking. Due to
the existence of vulnerabilities in computer, cyber
security has become the fastest growing career in
our world today.
There are so many applications
in use today. When we do not use applications
properly, we end up creating vulnerability in them.
For instance, you lost your phone, which has a
whatsapp on it; you manage to buy a new phone. In
the process of downloading the whatsapp back to that
phone, you must not skip the restore point because
if you do, you have created a vulnerability, which
will make your data available to anyone who gets
access to your phone.
Secondly, when you confirm
a" friend request" on your Facebook account of a
person you do not know, you have created
vulnerability.
This vulnerability will help that
person to download all your personal details
including messages you shared with friends. Nothing
becomes private when vulnerability is created on
your social platform.
To avoid these
vulnerabilities one must be careful of friend
request he/she confirms on Facebook.
It is my
concern to educate you on these matters of
vulnerabilities. As harmless as things may look
on the internet, there are materials out there that cause these
vulnerabilities for us. It will be of a good healthy
thing to practice caution when out there on the
internet. The first is to gain knowledge of
the harm that is out there. As a
cyber-security practitioner, I can be helpful in
this area.
contact:
selormpc@gmail.com.
By: Selorm Jonathan Amegashie
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