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  Computer hacking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Computer hacking could be considered a form of breaking and entering, for example someone walks into your house and sits down in your favorite chair and watches their favorite television show.
Just like computer hacking, the door’s are left unlocked and are entered upon, then closed tightly and safely behind but now the hacker has the key to get back in whenever he or she wants to.
This is the simplest form of computer hacking, and the reason no one gets caught with this type is because it is done in the home and is gone undetected.
www.uncp.edu /home/canada/work/markport/comp/cma106/hacking.htm   (639 words)

  
 Computer Hacking
The basics of computer security (using difficult passwords, and guarding of data) are not being met in a disturbingly large number of American companies surveyed.
In the 1960's the dictionary definition of a hacker was that of a "computer virtuoso".
These hackers love computers and are motivated by the anger and frustration they feel at the prevailing laxity of security measures in place.
www.studyworld.com /basementpapers/sec_papers/Computer_Hacking.html   (2110 words)

  
 Benwiggy.com - Hacking - Hacking Introduction
Hacking is not a simple operation or sequence of commands as many people think.
Hacking is not a specific term, there are many types of hacking.
Hacking is illegal in most countries because of the invasion of privacy which can occur from hacking.
www.benwiggy.com /hacking/introduction.php   (550 words)

  
 "Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator Classes"
Computer forensics is simply the application of computer investigation and analysis techniques in the interests of determining potential legal evidence.
Evidence might be sought in a wide range of computer crime or misuse, including but not limited to theft of trade secrets, theft of or destruction of intellectual property, and fraud.
Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator enables the systematic and careful identification of evidence in computer related crime and abuse cases.
www.mile2.com /computer_hacking_forensic_investigator.html   (229 words)

  
 Computer Forensics Online
The thrust of the article deals with the collection and use of computer evidence to apprehend the hacker and, once apprehended, to either prosecute or defend.
Practitioners need to be particularly vigilant to maintain their own computers and keep abreast of the latest developments in the law to avoid potential malpractice.
Computer software is an extremely important asset that contributes significantly to the overall value of a company.
www.shk-dplc.com /cfo   (864 words)

  
 Hack (technology slang) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hack is a term in the slang of the technology culture which has come into existence over the past few decades.
There, the original meaning of "hack" was an elaborate and flamboyant student prank; it was used with hacker, meaning "one who perpetrates a hack".
In modern computer programming, a "hack" can refer to a solution or method which functions correctly but which is "ugly" in its concept, which works outside the accepted structures and norms of the environment, or which is not easily extendable or maintainable (see kludge).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hack_(technology_slang)   (761 words)

  
 Computer Hacking and Ethics
He is not some new kind of monster spawned by computer technology; he's a kid with all the strengths and weaknesses we expect from kids in other situations.
There may be many computer abusers who would never break into a car for a joyride, but who don't understand that breaking into a computer account raises the same ethical issues.
Another approach is for interested educators to establish regional computing centers for adolescents, not part of a particular school, where kids can come on their own time.
www.cs.berkeley.edu /~bh/hackers.html   (3403 words)

  
 Hacking Issues: An Indian Perspective
Hacking and cracking are amongst the gravest cyber crimes known till date.
Two Indian computer trainers were arrested in January 2001 for allegedly trying to hack into the computers of the State Bank of India, the country's biggest commercial bank, and other state agencies.
In the United Kingdom a person is guilty of an offence if he causes a computer to perform any function with an intent to secure access to any program or data held within a computer or if the access he intends to secure is unauthorized.
www.asianlaws.org /projects/hacking_indian_perspective.htm   (3798 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Business | Computer hacking 'costs billions'
Viruses, staff misuse and hacking are blamed in the survey by the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) and accountancy firm PwC.
UK businesses are being exposed to ever-greater threats to their information systems as use of the internet and wider connectivity among companies increases, the government-sponsored survey found.
Computer Associates, which helped sponsor the survey, also called for an integrated approach to security threats.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/3663333.stm   (365 words)

  
 Open Directory - Computers:Hacking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Hacking conventions are much much more than a bunch of high school cyber punks hacking away all night.
Computer hacking (and hacking in general) is an often misunderstood part of today's society.
In general, a hacker is seen as a social outcast that turns to the computer to gain a sense of power by generally destroying and stealing the possesions of other people.
dmoz.org /Computers/Hacking/desc.html   (1059 words)

  
 A brief history of computer hacking Dynamic Chiropractic - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The best and brightest of those programmers created what they called "hacks" - shortcuts that would modify and improve the performance of a computer's operating system or applications and allow more tasks to be completed in a shorter time.
Federal authorities say the teenager - who did most of his hacking from a computer in his bedroom - was only a few steps away from tapping into the company's central telephone switching system, which could have brought most of the nation's telephone networks and communications systems to a standstill.
The program itself is mostly harmless; users whose computers are infected with the virus find a small file added to their hard drive containing an unencrypted text message giving contact information for a "Brain Computer Services" in Pakistan.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3987/is_200106/ai_n8984599   (906 words)

  
 Computer Hacking
However, the social and computing environment has greatly changed since, and as tends to be with language, the use of the term hacker ‘expanded and its definition broadened’.
The computer nerd syndrome particularly affects male adolescents between the ages of 14 and 16.
In computers, a Trojan horse is a program in which malicious or harmful code is contained inside apparently harmless programming or data in such a way that it can get control and do its chosen form of damage, such as ruining the file allocation table on your hard disk.
www.cs.mdx.ac.uk /staffpages/hrahanu/bis2060week2.htm   (4092 words)

  
 Computer Hacking
From the amused concern of the intelligentsia to the hysteria of the casual user, and from the research community and the manufacturing industry to the morally aroused legislature and the mediated culture at large, every one of these explanations is the result of social and cultural processes and values.
One tends to think hacking is wrong and all its effects have to be detrimental to the computer society.
Understandably, but regrettably, most hacks, or technocrimes, go unnoticed or unreported for fear of publicising the vulnerability of corporate security systems, especially when the hacks are performed by disgruntled employees taking their vengeance on management.
journ.ru.ac.za /awol/hack.html   (954 words)

  
 Fraud, Embezzlement, Hacking/Cracking, Computer Crimes
The definition of computer crime is constantly evolving as technology advances.
Knowingly accessing a computer without authorization or exceeding authorization of a government computer or intentionally accessing a computer without authorization or exceeding authorization to acquire financial information of a bank, business or consumer.
unauthorized computer access may be a misdemeanor, gross misdemeanor or a felony depending on the risk that the access poses to the public A person is guilty of unauthorized computer access if the person intentionally and without authority attempts to or does penetrate a computer security system.
www.nvo.com /beaulier/whitecollarcrime   (1915 words)

  
 Computer Hacking and Unauthorized Access Laws
Hacking is breaking into computer systems, frequently with intentions to alter or modify existing settings.
Sometimes malicious in nature, these break-ins may cause damage or disruption to computer systems or networks.
People with malevolent intent are often referred to as "crackers"--as in "cracking" into computers.
www.ncsl.org /programs/lis/cip/hacklaw.htm   (244 words)

  
 HBO: Hacking Democracy - Synopsis
Her subsequent investigation took her from the trash cans of Texas to the secretary of state of California and finally to Florida, where a "mini-election" to test the vulnerability of the memory cards used in electronic voting produced alarming results.
David Dill, professor of computer science at Stanford, says the problem is that there are "lots of people involved in writing the software, and lots of people who could have touched the software before it went into that machine.
HACKING DEMOCRACY was directed by Simon Ardizzone and Russell Michaels; produced by Simon Ardizzone, Robert Carrillo Cohen and Russell Michaels; executive producers, Earl Katz, Sarah Teale and Sian Edwards; edited by Sasha Zik.
www.hbo.com /docs/programs/hackingdemocracy/synopsis.html   (659 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
As the world becomes more and more reliant on computers the computer hacking industry is greatly rising.
Kevin is known as "the most high-profiled computer criminal and responsible for more havoc in the computer world today."(1) He considered this a fun and easy task.
If a computer virus or an invading hacker deletes your files, or either one corrupts your files, the easiest way to restore your computer may be to reformat the hard drive(s) and then copy files from a recent backup.
www.lycos.com /info/computer-hacking.html   (255 words)

  
 A history of hacking
Hacking has been around for more than a century.
At first, "hacker" was a positive term for a person with a mastery of computers who could push programs beyond what they were designed to do.
He is convicted of damaging computers and stealing software and is sentenced to one year in prison.
www.sptimes.com /Hackers/history.hacking.html   (892 words)

  
 computer hacking | Progressive U
With hacking now accounting for £10 billion of damage to British firms each year and posing a potential terrorism threat, the course works on the premise that it takes a thief to catch a thief.
Professor Lachlan MacKinnon, head of Abertay’s school of computing and creative technologies, said that the course was necessary because the techniques featured in movies such as War Games were now in common use.
Earlier this month a court ruled that a Scot accused of the biggest military hacking operation should be extradited to America to stand trial.
www.progressiveu.org /222224-computer-hacking   (744 words)

  
 Computer Hacking
MIT students are warring for control of the school's mainframe computers.
But in 1965 the computer is widely feared as a source of Orwellian powers.
He and the two friends who code it call their game "Darwin." Later "Darwin" becomes "Core War," a free-form computer game played to this day by some of the uberest of uberhackers.
www.hacking.teleactivities.net /harmless/computer.htm   (430 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Dangers of Computer Hacking: Books: John Knittel,Ryan P. Randolph,J. Knittel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Grade 5-9-Knittel and Soto define the term "hacking" and detail the work of "good hackers" or "white hats," people they usually refer to as computer experts, and those who are "crackers" or "fl hats," individuals who illegally break into other people's computers.
Discussions include the history of computer hacking, psychological profiles of crackers, legal issues, cases of people convicted of computer crimes, and ways to practice "safe hacking." Though the text makes interesting reading, the book has a lackluster format, with fl-and-white and color photos of indifferent quality.
Relatively unskilled in both the computer and personal areas, they use simplistic means to break into systems and are often caught.
www.amazon.ca /Dangers-Computer-Hacking-John-Knittel/dp/082393764X   (872 words)

  
 Computer Hacking
Computer hacking always involves some degree of infringement on the privacy of others or damage to computer-based property such as files, web pages or software.
First, we need to consider the fact that the public perception of hackers is mixed, and that "hacking" and "being considered a hacker" can be quite appealing to students who are going through developmental periods in which they are defining themselves, as well as challenging authority and rules.
Students and staff need to instructed regarding hacking, the mentality associated with it, the consequences of various hacking actions and possible consequences of interacting and forming online relationships with anonymous individuals who claim to be proficient in invading others' privacy.
lrs.ed.uiuc.edu /wp/crime/hacking.htm   (1166 words)

  
 Anti-Hacking for Computer Forensics
Which just proves that you — no matter how robust your security strategy and practices are — need to know exactly how computer crimes are committed, how to assemble the evidence, and work with law enforcement for prosecution.
When you're finished, you'll know what computer crime is, and isn't… and how to safeguard your organization's vital technology assets.
A crucial part of any computer crime prevention strategy is deciding who's going to be responsible… and how they're going to achieve their goals.
www.securityuniversity.net /classes_anti-hacking_forensics.php   (493 words)

  
 Computer Hacking Law and Legal Definition - USlegalforms.com
Computer hacking is broadly defined as intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access.
Various state and federal laws govern computer hacking.
There are no forms with Computer Hacking in the title.
www.uslegalforms.com /legaldefinitions/c/computer-hacking.php   (728 words)

  
 What is hacker? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
A slang term for a computer enthusiast, i.e., a person who enjoys learning programming languages and computer systems and can often be considered an expert on the subject(s).
Among professional programmers, depending on how it used, the term can be either complimentary or derogatory, although it is developing an increasingly derogatory connotation.
The pejorative sense of hacker is becoming more prominent largely because the popular press has coopted the term to refer to individuals who gain unauthorized access to computer systems for the purpose of stealing and corrupting data.
www.webopedia.com /TERM/h/hacker.html   (454 words)

  
 An Educator's Guide to Hacking
By discussing computer ethics with students, educators are opening the eyes of their students and making them think about their actions on the computer.
Hacking is covered under law Title 18: Crimes and Criminal Procedure: Part 1: Crimes: Chapter 47: Fraud and False Statements: Section 1030: Fraud and related activity in connection with computers.
The federal punishment for hacking into computers ranges from a fine or imprisonment for no more than one year to a fine and imprisonment for no more than twenty years.
lrs.ed.uiuc.edu /wp/crime-2002/hacking.htm   (1320 words)

  
 The history of computer hacking.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
According to hacker Winn Schwartau, computer hacking is "a form of education recreation." According to him, many network administrators, scientists, and security experts first learned how to do their professions from computer hacking, not college.
Since then, the meaning of hacking has been changed to a term associated with breaking into or harming of any kind of computer or telecommunications system.
Legendary computer hacker Kevin Mitnick is arrested in Raleigh, North Carolina and accused of a number of security violations, such as copy computer software, breaking into various networks and stealing private information, including 20,000 valid credit card numbers.
schoolweb.missouri.edu /ashland.k12.mo.us/sc/02page   (1462 words)

  
 UK's first computer hacking degree launched - Security Strategy - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
A degree course in computer hacking has been launched by a Scottish university in response to industry demand for IT security experts.
Although many existing undergraduate computing degrees cover elements of this new course, Abertay claims to be the first UK university to offer a dedicated degree course in hacking.
There are also ethical hacking courses and qualifications offered by private sector IT training organisations such as the Training Camp, which launched a course two years ago.
software.silicon.com /security/0,39024655,39159714,00.htm   (497 words)

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