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  OneKIT :: Reviews & Articles :: Hacking: Art or Science?
A small part of the broad definition of “hacking” which generally (perhaps largely due to the media bastardisation of the term “hacking”) is now referred to as “cracking” by the underground community at large.
The arguments about definition and scope of the term “hacking” aside, the important fact (in terms of this paper) remains that as far as the wider population are concerned “cracking” is either synonymous with the term “hacking”, or irrelevant in the face of the term “hacking”.
Two targeted hacks (not to be confused with script kiddie adventures) are rarely ever identical, and even less likely embarked upon with the same motive; it has been suggested that tracking repeat hackers (in particular those who deface websites) by their style (ie.
www.onekit.com /store/review/hacking~dotdot~_art_or_science~question~.html   (1633 words)

  
 Hacking's a snap in Legoland - CNET News.com
The software lets users build whatever they can imagine, so long as they have the 3D modeling skills to design their creation.
The idea, he said, was that by reducing the number of bricks in a palette, builders would be able to purchase smaller numbers and thus cut their overall costs.
According to Larry Pieniazek, an IBM software architect and an avid Lego user, Malec and others realized that by coordinating their efforts, community members could keep track of the actual bags of bricks Lego provides in its stock sets--and the specific pieces contained in each bag.
news.cnet.com /Hackings-a-snap-in-Legoland/2100-1046_3-5865751.html   (1797 words)

  
 Hacking Software
Hacking servers is not very glamorous, it takes a lot of patience and hours of work on end, the first technique of choice being to use a recently discovered 'exploit' of the server's software before the server administrator has time to update his software.
Hacking into individuals' computers is a lot easier and there is a large variety of software available in aid of this.
This software is quite difficult to use by novices the biggest disadvantage being that it is easily detectable by antivirus software such as Norton Antivirus, there is also a danger of self infection while using this software.
www.linkbase.org /hacking-software   (342 words)

  
 Hacking - Wikipedia
Recently hacking has come to mean unauthorized access to data/information, to obtain or to modify it.
Since Hacking is the process of making a computer program work better, then any tools used by a system administrator or a computer programmer are part of the methods used used by hackers.
To be famous, a hack must show a high degree of novelty, as well as a deep understanding of the way computers work, and must be significantly more elegant than a kludge.
nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hacking   (461 words)

  
 G4 - Feature - The Future of Software and Hacking
Software will play a major role in smart objects, and compromising such objects from a security perspective is likely to involve exploiting software.
Software exploitation in a geographically distributed system is interesting because the range of protections offered by various different hosts in the system is likely to vary.
Software companies are preparing for this by changing the way they license and charge for software today.
www.g4tv.com /techtvvault/features/639/The_Future_of_Software_and_Hacking.html   (1047 words)

  
 Building Sustainable IP Protection against Hacking
Software hacking and piracy by professional hackers is growing and increasingly sophisticated, and the latest BSA/IDC global piracy report estimates worldwide losses in 2007 alone at $48 billion.
Whether you build software, consumer electronic devices, digital media applications, communications equipment, machine tools, automotive telematics or signal processing platforms, hardening applications to tampering, piracy and reverse-engineering is indispensable to maximizing software-powered businesses.
For a system to be widely hacked, it must be possible to create a scripted exploit that runs reliably on a large percentage of installed clients - this is called a class hack.
www.infosectoday.com /Articles/Building_Sustainable_IP_Protection.htm   (1134 words)

  
 BlueLight Internet Support - Spam and Safety - Hacking- Value-priced Internet Service Provider - ISP - low-cost ...
Hacking is the act of penetrating or gaining unauthorized access to computer systems for the purpose of gaining knowledge about the systemand how it works.
Based on the information provided in your hacking report, we first identify the domain from which the hacking attempts were made.
Be sure to update your Anti-Virus software with the latest virus definitions regularly, to keep your protection up to date, and to prevent any new viruses from infecting your computer.
www.mybluelight.com /support/security/info/hacking.html   (421 words)

  
 Software Cracking
Software cracking is software hacking in order to remove encoded copy protection.
Distribution of cracked software (warez) is generally an illegal (or more recently, criminal) act of copyright infringement.
Software cracking is most often done by software reverse engineering.
www.hacking.teleactivities.net /cracking/software_cracking.html   (323 words)

  
 Hackers and Painters
They seemed to think that hacking and painting were very different kinds of work-- that hacking was cold, precise, and methodical, and that painting was the frenzied expression of some primal urge.
I like debugging: it's the one time that hacking is as straightforward as people think it is. You have a totally constrained problem, and all you have to do is solve it.
At one point a competitor added a feature to their software that was basically useless, but since it was one of few they had that we didn't, they made much of it in the trade press.
www.paulgraham.com /hp.html   (5351 words)

  
 Cranes Software - Hacking : ethical vs the unethical
In a broad sense, hacking is an act by which someone gains access to a computer system or network without any authorisation to do so.
Hacking is getting more sophisticated and, in many cases, a lot nastier.
Sniffer is a piece of hardware or Software, which grabs all information tranversing Social engineering is an act by which valuable information about the network, passwords, access restrictions and user accounts are gathered from unsuspecting people.
www.cranessoftware.com /press/in-the-news/hacking--ethical-vs-the-unethical.html   (370 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: )
If you haven't lurked and participated in a free software project, you won't know how things are done and you'll have an awful time trying to run your own.
People often expect someone to be in charge of free software projects; or they expect to get an assignment, then have to complete it by a deadline.
Hacking is ultimately work; it's about sitting down by yourself and pounding out code or documentation.
www106.pair.com /rhp/hacking.html   (1649 words)

  
 Technology and Pleasure
As Taylorist-inspired software development methods descended upon the corporate world, the hackers entrenched themselves at the campuses of the large technical universities of the U. (in particular MIT, Stanford and Carnegie-Mellon), where their non-conformism was tolerated and their special skills appreciated.
The property of extensibility may be interpreted as the expression in software of an imperialist strategy of assimilation and conquest [9].
Gosling then enraged the hacking community by retroactively imposing his own copyright on his (originally assumed by fellow hackers to be copyright-free) implementation and selling the exclusive rights of it to a commercial software company.
www.firstmonday.dk /issues/issue4_2/gisle/index.html   (9531 words)

  
 Advogato: Money vs. Free Software
Free Software is an attempt to get back to the glory days of hacking, when hardly anyone got paid to do it, and you hacked for the joy of hacking.
The majority of software (in lines of code or deployed seats) is not operating systems or compilers or graphical user interfaces; the majority of deployed code is tied up in vertical applications -- programs that help businesses and organizations operate on a day-to-day basis.
Free software does substantially reduce the ability of an individual or company to impede progress, whether through bankruptcy or boneheadedness, because a fork or maintenance transfer is always possible.
www.advogato.org /article/140.html   (3427 words)

  
 WindowsDevCenter.com -- How To Start Hacking Your PC   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hacking a PC isn't a big secret--resources, tips, tools, and parts are readily available, thanks to the internet, of course, and specialty vendors catering to the hacking and PC-modding market.
Anyone can perform a PC hack that may be as subtle as changing a wired keyboard and mouse for wireless ones or as radical as applying a chainsaw and some spray paint to a PC case for a 'rad' new look.
Hacking your PC, though not without some risk, can be rewarding in either performance gain or simply personalization of "your box." The former can potentially stretch your PC dollar when you need that extra 'oomph' to give you the responsiveness of a faster system without forking over hundreds of dollars.
windowsdevcenter.com /pub/a/windows/2004/11/24/PC_Hacking_Part1.html   (2043 words)

  
 Hacking Made Easy - washingtonpost.com
The quality of the software tools cyber criminals are using to sort through the mountains of information they've stolen is a clear sign that they are seeking more efficient ways to monetize that data, experts say.
The software -- viewed by a reporter on one of the sites, which washingtonpost.com is not naming because it remains active -- displays detailed graphs showing the distribution of victims by country.
The hacking software also features automated tools that allow the fraudsters to make minute adjustments or sweeping changes to their networks of hacked PCs.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/16/AR2006031600916_pf.html   (2396 words)

  
 API Network * Ethical Hacking and Software Auditing   (Site not responding. Last check: )
When software is created there should be a team called QA, and one of their roles should include security analysis.
The reality is that most non-IT companies have software created and assign "testers" in place of a QA group.
Software is designed with assumptions that users behave in a specific, trustworthy manner, following a predetermined path: Login, then select region, then select customer file...
www.apin.com /hacking.htm   (582 words)

  
 What is hacker software?
Hundreds of free hacking softwares are easily available and they are so easy to operate, that even a novice can turn to be a highly paid professional.
With a wide range of easy-to-use hacking software South Africa has turned to be the hackers' heaven, injecting illegitimate programs into the remote systems by the fraudulent act of breaking into the websites.
Since the software is dedicated to the memory of the famous former Chinese leader Wang Ruowang, it has been found that China is the one nation that have shown tremendous interest in the Camera/Shy software.
www.hackingalert.com /hacking-articles/free-hacking-program.php   (603 words)

  
 Hacking, Crime, Software Complexity, Responsibility, Internet
It is still true that relatively law-abiding youngsters who would never consider breaking into their high school or college and breaking all the windows and writing nasty slogans on the walls don’t think that the electronic equivalent is a big deal.
In fact kids still think ”hacking is cool.” I recently saw a very computer literate 10 year old who is usually never allowed unsupervised Internet access (a reasonable parenting practice) start searching for hacking websites and hacking tools as soon as he was left unattended.
The more complexity software has, the more bugs, the more security issues, the harder it is to test, the more likely it is to have serious security issues.
www.demop.com /Newsletters/Sept04securITy.html   (1151 words)

  
 Hacking and hackers
Hacking can also be done to perform reverse engineering of software whereof the source code is lost.
Hacking or Cracking is merely a human trait that is triggered and inherent to our being: our unbridled curiosity.
It was one of the first "Invitation-only" hacking based BBSes; it was the first BBS with security that caused the system to remain idle until a primary password was entered; and it was the first hacking BBS to deal with many subjects in close detail, such as trashing and social engineering.
www.thocp.net /reference/hacking/hacking.htm   (4061 words)

  
 Hack Password software is #1 Email password hacking programme designed to crack passwords for hotmail, yahoo, aol etc
Unfortunately, hacking email passwords is probably one of the BIGGEST frustrations most internet users have...they just need a password to see what their partner is doing but have no way to find their password...
Our software comes with step-by-step instructions on the CD-Rom, and tech support is standing by to help you or answer any questions you may have.
YUP, That's right this software actually get the original password, this is the password the user uses on a daily basis to access their email, and possibly other accounts such as emails, messengers, and other accounts.
www.hackpasswordsv2.com   (3430 words)

  
 How to hack a website?
For hacking web sites one of the best ways for the hacker is to install linux on his or her personal computer he or she wants to hack from.
The whole planet is today terrorized by the web hackers to whom hacking seems a mode of getting pleasure by the way of gaining knowledge or mere entertainment.
Website hacking for these hackers is all as simple as a child's play.
www.hackingalert.com /hacking-articles/website-hacking.php   (528 words)

  
 Free as in Freedom: Chapter 6
But it was not at all uncommon to find people falling asleep at the lab, again because of their enthusiasm; you stay up as long as you possibly can hacking, because you just don't want to stop.
Software hacking, once a hobby, had become his calling.
Despite this innovative hack, switching from mode to mode was still a nuisance.
oreilly.com /openbook/freedom/ch06.html   (4027 words)

  
 Software Hacking-- The Glass is Too Big
In several conversations recently with other software developers (yep, those are just as exciting as your wildest dreams) and their frustrations with the process, as implemented in modern corporate America, the same analogy kept popping into my head.
More and more, I feel like the things that businesses are after in their software development are similar to medieval alchemy.
When a task is the kind of thing that people will do on their own and desperately PAY someone to let them do it, making a living at that task is going to be very difficult.
www.wynia.org /wordpress/category/software-hacking   (2419 words)

  
 [No title]
Easily downloadable virus and hacking tools are very appealing to young thrill-seekers ('script-kiddies'), who are responsible for 99% of all hacking attacks.
Hacktivism is the convergence of hacking with activism, where "hacking" is used here to refer to operations that exploit computers in ways that are unusual and often illegal, typically with the help of special software ("hacking tools").
Because hacking incidents are often reported in the media, operations in this category can generate considerable publicity for both the activists and their causes.
www.lycos.com /info/hacking-tools.html   (441 words)

  
 Hacking Software: Are Whyvillians Safe?
I know that there is software out there that is made for hacking.
The different threads all talked about hacking games on the miniclip website, Neopets (which I used to play when I was younger, so that caught my eye), and many other things.
The person who set up this forum said in his threads, "Flash games are so easy to hack, I could do it with my eyes closed!" He even had pictures he took while hacking with captions on how to hack, step by step.
h.whyville.net /smmk/whytimes/article?id=4462   (819 words)

  
 API Network * Ethical Hacking and Software Auditing
When software is created there should be a team called QA, and one of their roles should include security analysis.
The reality is that most non-IT companies have software created and assign "testers" in place of a QA group.
Software is designed with assumptions that users behave in a specific, trustworthy manner, following a predetermined path: Login, then select region, then select customer file...
apin.com /hacking.htm   (566 words)

  
 The whatUseek Directory - Hacking
Elf Qrin's Hacking Lab - Articles and tutorials about hacking, software tools, interviews with hackers, and forum.
George's Hacking Statistics - Statistics and reports on attempted unauthorized accesses to one computer.
Ground Zero - Hacking news, tutorials, port scanners, trojans, and password crackers.
dir.whatuseek.com /Computers/Hacking   (318 words)

  
 A Book Review of Hacking Exposed
Overall the book primarily deals with hacking attempts on networks and this section describes the differences between the various operating systems and the different tools used by hackers to try and penetrate each one.
Software hacking involves the use of remote access software which allows a person to access their office computer remotely, or in the case of Windows XP, remote assistance software.
Hacking Exposed is not a quick read, however it is well written, interesting and it achieves its purpose of educating the reader about the tools and disciplines needed to protect a network from hackers.
www.spcug.org /reviews/0306_01.htm   (601 words)

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