Hacking and hackers are the terms that generally tend to build a negative impression in people's minds. The image is of a computer criminal sitting in a darkroom and committing a crime. This is not true. The media has been wrongly referring to computer criminals as hackers. Computer security has two types of people - hackers and crackers. Hackers use their knowledge to help organizations secure company secrets and the government to protect national documents. They help keep computer criminals on a run. Crackers are criminals who deface websites, release viruses and steal credit card numbers on the internet. According to IDC the global demand for Internet Security (IS) services was approximately $8 Billion in 2001, estimated to grow to $23.6 Billion by 2006. Correspondingly, there is a growing demand for IS professionals - this research pegs the current demand of over 18,000 in India and over 60,000 worldwide. This is estimated to grow to over 77,000 in India and 188,000 worldwide by 2008. Yet when we first talked of training hackers with government officials, their reaction was of disbelief and resentment. They argued that teaching people hacking would only increase the incidences of computer crimes and instead favored more stringent laws. However, all the laws in the world cannot and will not discourage computer criminals. It has become necessary to teach people how crackers work and how to protect computer systems from them. Just because there is a risk of knife being misused by a murderer does not mean that we a stop manufacturing knives. HAPPY HACKING......................
By Anuj Tiwari
I - Semester
Electronics & Communication
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