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What is Hacking?

Hacking is a challenge to beat the borders of Softwaresystems i a creative way. The act of engaging in activities in a spirit of playfulness and exploration is called „hacking“. Hackers are motivated by many reasons. Profit, protest, information gathering or to evaluate system weaknesses to defense against potential hackers.

Hacking began in the year 1960 in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).  Students pranked the whole university to demonstrate their technical aptitude and cleverness. They called them self „Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC)“.

The most of the people are thinking, that hacking is something really bad. They imagine a hacker is someone who sits all day and every day in his dark room, eat junk food and never see the sun. Obviously he dose crime activity’s in the internet. For example rob virtual money and steal personal data.

But that´s a fallacy! Sure there are this Hackers too. But hackers are segmented in two different Typs. The Security Hacker and the Cyber-crime Hacker.

 

The Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

 

The certified Ethical Hacker is a skilled professional hacker. His main work is to finde weaknesses i a target system. He uses the same knowledge and tools like the Cyber-Crime Hacker. With this tools and his knowledge he assess in a legitimate way in the target system. His job is, to play the hacker.

The purpose of the CEH credential is to:

Establish and govern minimum standards for credentialing professional information security specialists in ethical hacking measures.
Inform the public that credentialed individuals meet or exceed the minimum standards.
Reinforce ethical hacking as a unique and self-regulating profession.

„https://www.eccouncil.org/programs/certified-ethical-hacker-ceh/“