Learn Ethical Hacking Within 12 Hours

The definition of hacking is very broad. For the purpose of this book, we can define hacking as the process of finding weaknesses in computer systems and computer network systems and exploiting them to gain access to information.

We can, therefore, say that a hacker is a person who identifies and exploits weaknesses in computer systems and/or networks to access information. A hacker is typically a skilled computer programmer with knowledge of computer and network security