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Hacking and Cracking Guide

This document provides an overview of hacking and cracking. It defines hacking as originally meaning getting program source code through non-destructive means, while cracking refers to harmful or illegal hacking activities. The history of hacking is explored from its early uses in the 1900s to disrupt wireless telegraphy through modern examples. While some forms of hacking are legal, cracking that intends damage is illegal. Common cracking methods include DDoS attacks and installing trojan horses. The document advises following software security updates and instructions to help prevent harmful hacking activities.

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Hacking and Cracking Guide

This document provides an overview of hacking and cracking. It defines hacking as originally meaning getting program source code through non-destructive means, while cracking refers to harmful or illegal hacking activities. The history of hacking is explored from its early uses in the 1900s to disrupt wireless telegraphy through modern examples. While some forms of hacking are legal, cracking that intends damage is illegal. Common cracking methods include DDoS attacks and installing trojan horses. The document advises following software security updates and instructions to help prevent harmful hacking activities.

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Hacking

By Jay Lee

Table of contents
What is Hacking?
History of Hacking
Is hacking illegal?
What is cracking?
Where does cracking occur?
DDoS
The potential for harm or consequences

from the criminal or questionable activity


Strategies they can use to protect
themselves and your business

What is Hacking?
Hacking's original definition is getting

program source by unlocking Rock


algorithm or changing program source in
better way

History of Hacking
1903 Magician and inventor Nevil Maskelyne disrupts John Ambrose Fleming's public

demonstration of Guglielmo Marconi's purportedly secure wireless telegraphy


technology, sending insulting Morse code messages through the auditorium's
projector
1932Polish cryptologists Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Rycki broke the
Enigma machine code
1943French computer expert Ren Carmille, hacked the punched card used by the
Nazis to locate Jews.
1981Chaos Computer Club forms in Germany.
1983 The U.S. House of Representatives begins hearings on computer security
hacking
1999 Software security goes mainstream In the wake of Microsoft's Windows 98
release, 1999 becomes a banner year for security (and hacking). Hundreds of
advisories and patches are released in response to newfound (and widely publicized)
bugs in Windows and other commercial software products. A host of security software
vendors release anti-hacking products for use on home computers.\
2004 July: North Korea claims to have trained 500 hackers who successfully crack
South Korean, Japanese, and their allies' computer systems
From wikipedia

Is Hacking illegal?
Unlocking lock and checking source is

not illegal
Also fixing program using open source
program is not illegal
However, the act out of contract such as
spreading sources they got or cracking
is illegal
The illegal hacking is called cracking

What is Cracking?
Cracking is hacking that tries to give

damage to specific target.


The hacking that normal people think is this
cracking

Where does cracking occur?


The normal way that normal people that

has no relation with hacking usually meets


hacking on online game.
Company and company always hack each
other friendly
Hackers from other country hack server to
get Social Security Number
Spies hack countries military information

DDOS
DDOS(Distributed Denial of Service attack)

is stronger version of DOS(Denial of Service


attack)
It is most common and easiest way of
cracking, by pressing f5 crazily, with many
people in same time can be DDOS attack,
by making server down.
But log always left in server and it is
Imprisonment when its uncovered

The potential for harm or consequences from the


criminal or questionable activity

The people who went against this law will be

stretched for 3 years or get fined under


$30000

Strategies they can use to protect


themselves and your business
Normal people are not likely to get cracked

their computer because there is no benefit.


When someone tries to crack our computer
that has information about our business, it
is most likely to be Trojan horse.
They are very old and have low quality, so
if we follow Microsoft's safety instruction,
we can prevent most of cracking terrors

The End

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