HACKING! WHAT THE HELL IT IS??

Technically, Hack is overriding or modifying stuff to achieve something uncommon to normal user say overriding normal procedures of doing things or modifying things to achieve something hidden or uncommon.

Suppose we wish to change the administrator password of windows operating system. Now we all know that we can change windows password by following below procedure:

For windows 7 operating system:

GO TO CONTROL PANEL ->USER ACCOUNTS ->SELECT USER ->CHANGE PASS-WORD ->SAVE NEW PASSWORD.

The above explained procedure is normal way that users use to change windows administrator or users password.

But we all know that there are several uncommon ways of changing windows administrator or users password. These ways is what we call HACK.

Now if I don’t have administrator rights or I forgot the administrator password. Now how I will change the administrator pass-word to unlock system.

Here the term Hack and Hacker will come into picture. Now we have to use un-common ways to achieve the target as normal procedure is no longer working in our situation.

We can do above tasks by several methods according to levels of Hackers.

Novice Users:– They will format the windows operating system or will take experts help.

Script Kiddies (beginner level hackers):– They will use Linux live disks or emergency rescue disks to reset the password.

Medium Level Hackers (who have good knowledge of system and hacking tools):–They will use advance Hacking tools like OPHCrack or Backtrack OS to retrieve the password.

Elite Hackers (expert level hackers): –– Why to use any third party tool (know how to do with third-party tools) when I can do this manually by breaking into system root and reset it.

The elite one’s procedure to give you an idea about up to what level we will learn things.

Elite Hackers do things based on situations say how I will do if it’s my own system and if it’s somebody else’s system (i.e. I want to break into his/her system without getting tracked).
If it’s my own system, I have two choices: First, I can reset the password and Second, I can retrieve the password.

If it’s somebody else’s system, I am left with only one choice i.e. I need to retrieve the password because if I reset it then victim will know that somebody’s has broken into his/her system and you cannot call yourself elite if you can be tracked.
So as an elite hacker I will try to retrieve the administrator password without getting tracked or caught and its simplest way is using OPHCrack Live CD because this is the only possible way to retrieve the existing password without resetting it. All other methods reset the windows password. Alternatively, I will insert windows operating system CD/DVD and try to retrieve the windows password encrypted file and then decrypt it at my own system.

That all is about HAcker or HacKing.

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HACKING: WHAT IS IT??

Hacking is derived by merging two words HACK and ING i.e. Hack and its working.

Technically, Hacking is an art of exploring un-common things or modifying things to achieve uncommon functionalities.

But nowadays this definition is altered because of our Media and few old folks who even don’t know how many keys are there on keyboard or don’t even know how to pronounce the word Computer.

Our cool Media has represented Hacking as an art of deceiving web users to achieve malicious goals. I was watching NDTV and other TV news channels, this is how they have defined the word Hacking and they categorized all smart internet and computer users as criminals.

So friends, don’t get demotivated by things that you see on media or hear from folks. They are saying it bad because it is represented as bad to them by our media.

Actually it’s not only media who is responsible for this. It’s us also. Why so?
Because when my friend frankly asked people, why you want to learn Hacking? This is the reply what he got:-

1. I want to hack my friends emails and Facebook  40%
2. I want to have fun  30%
3. I want to become security professional or Ethical Hacker  15%
4. I want to see what my girlfriend is doing  11%
5. I want to take revenge 3%
6. I want to learn cool stuff 1%
See only 16% people (15% Ethical hackers + 1% learn cool stuff) want to learn ethical hacking for good reasons.

So now what about you readers and you mindset regarding hacking ???

Tell me in comments…..