--Originally published at El Machetero Blog´s
How is it that a term like hacking that everyone relate with bad things can be ethical? What´s the difference with the common hacking? Who do this? Why?
Let´s start by defining what is ethical hacking also know as pentesting, this is called pentesting because an important part of it is to run some test to try getting into the system breaking throught it´s security, and you may ask, but what´s the difference with common hacking, isn´t it also breaking throught security to obtain access to a system??
Well, the difference is the purpose of getting into that system and what is done after that, there´s two types of hackers Black Hat Hackers and White Hat Hackers, what does each ones does?
Black Hat Hackers are the ones that breaks into systems with bad intentions, either it is to steal information, money or any other reason they may have, but some people or organization get´s affected. Some Black Hat Hackers are big experts on what they do and would search and find even the minimum security breach to break and get into your system, but hey, there´s no thing as perfect security, all you can do is try your best doing and hope no one find those holes sometimes even you don´t know.
So what does white hackers do, well they work on increasing security, detecting and preventing possible point in which someone can get access to the system, but not everything is rainbows and butterflies, when things go well people don´t may not even notice what you´re doing, but when there´s a problem it´s all your fault
, even when it´s not.
One of the worst thing and the one most of the times you cannot do anything it´s the layer 8, a.k.a the users, ignorance, fear, laziness
FUN FACT
There´s this web page that show´s live attacks and you can see who send it from where, go dig in.
