Why hackers hack 22 Articles

by Erik Van Tongerloo

Hacking is a terrible problem in today's world. We all know hacking is a crime and can be compared with vandalism. Hackers try to break into computer systems for various reasons and are responsible for many computer proble...read more

by Leigh Goessl

Computer technology and network connections have grown to become a staple in our lives today. With the increased usage and dependability on computers, it's logical the crimes associated with them would rise in popularity t...read more

by Patti Winters

There are two different types of hackers and this article will illustrate the difference of the hackers and why they do what they do. There are two types of hackers in the world; the ones who know how to actually hack into...read more

by TruXter

Through years the word "hack" has been molded into a lesser being. Modifying objects or programs or software and making them work in a different way so the user of such object can now have things done easier, is what peo...read more

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by Uncle MythMan

Any hacking that has any reason is a two-step process: the "crack" (in which the hacker learns that a} there is a place he can enter the system and b} there is a way to manipulate the operation within once he gets there) a...read more

by Sathyanarayana. C.

ELECTRONIC ESPIONAGE - CHINESE WEB The Director General of M15 of UK has warned that China has been carrying out state-sponsored espionage against computer systems of big Banks and financial service firms, according to ...read more

by Khaled Mohamed Aly

Hacking is a big problem and a new type of attacking privacy and breaking the laws in the new era.Hack always begin by a fake and this fake could be a corrupted file like a spyware ,virus or a trojan and also there are a l...read more

by Alex Zak

There are several reasons for hacking: 1) Criminal intent: stealing credit card numbers, harming a competing company, extortion of money by threatening to hack again or reveal sensitive information found on the computer...read more

by Danette M. Scott

Why do hackers hack? Money,excitement, revenge and power are the reasons why hackers hack. I have been victimized by a hacker for some time now. The only reasonable explanations that I could think of is this person mistake...read more

by Bhumika Ghimire

Why hackers hack? Let me answer this as a former student of computer applications. During my college days, while I was majoring in computer applications, being able to hack was taken to be a sign of expertise. Anyone wh...read more

by Krystle Hernandez

Hackers hack for the same reason that Michael Jordan dunked basketballs or that Britney Spears kissed Madonna: because they can. After spending years holed up to acquire the knowledge required to hack into various compute...read more

by Danny Kwok

The young kid cautiously alters the value 64 to FF, thereby increasing his game character statistic to 255 (FFh=255d, 64h=100d). That is the conversion of hexadecimal to decimal number. All this is done using software to e...read more

by Marinus Tahu

ZERO DAY EXPLOIT DISCOVERY (2007) ~ A GROUP ADVANTAGE Zero Day Exploits are weaknesses in Operating Systems, Device Drivers, and Software Applications etc that are not yet widely known to, or acknowledged by the Vendor...read more

by Declan Kelly

There are many young children wanting to learn how to hack...WHY...All teenagers know how to use the modern technology better and quicker than most adults. hacking is about finding loop holes and exploring mew ways of acce...read more

by Dylan Sargent

I dont like how the word "Hacker" is used in the first place. People always get this stereotypical image in their heads about hackers. "Oh MY GOD! THE HACKERS ARE OUT TO GET ME!" In most cases, this is not true. I wa...read more

by Daniel Booy

The motivations that might drive a computer hacker can be as diverse and polyvalent as the world of computers itself. Every advantage a computer gives us can be increased; from making money to learning new things to getti...read more

by Alex Bardos

Hackers hack because they see a world that needs to be changed. They see a world that's upside down, a world where technology is insufficient. They see a world where people have problems, and they aim to fix those problems...read more

by Dante Ranieri

A hacker hacks to solve a problem. It could be to solve his or her own boredom. Maybe to resolve a common problem that people around the hacker have, like a vending machine whose food keeps sticking and not dropping ...read more

by Jose Fernandez

German news: http://www.heise.de/newstic ker/meldung/92334/from/atom 10 Statement from German hacker group Phenoelit: http://www.phenoelit.de/202 /202.html In short: If you own any hacker tool which "aim is to commit a c...read more

by Shane Robertson

The terms "hacker" and "hack" tend to be misused or non-standard. For the purposes of this article, let's start by establishing our terms: Digerati: A technology enthusiast interested in the depths of information (espe...read more