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HACKER NOT CRACKER. Hacker Is. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities Most often programmers Never intentionally damage data. Cracker Is . Break into or violates the system integrity of remote machines with malicious intent
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Hacker Is • A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities • Most often programmers • Never intentionally damage data
Cracker Is • Break into or violates the system integrity of remote machines with malicious intent • 2 major type of cracker: • Expert cracker • Script kiddie
What Hacker Do ? • Hack the Systems and find out the loop holes and then try to correct those Loop Holes • protect the cyber world from every possible threat and fixes the future coming security loop holes
What Cracker Do ? • causing harm to security • steals very useful data and use it in wrong ways • steals account info and steal your credit card number and money over the Net
Prevention And Detection • Hackers gain access to a computer through unguarded port of a computer in a network system • Firewall and anti- hacker software can detect and prevent hacker • Examples of software: • Kaspersky Internet Security • AVG Internet Security
CONCLUSION It is safe to say that all crackers are hacker , however not every hackers are cracker. There are many talented and famous hacker who work at IT company or even though work for government to detect and fix the weaknesses of network or security system
REFERENCES • http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/security/hacker-vs-cracker/1400 • http://searchenterprisedesktop.techtarget.com/tip/The-difference-between-hackers-and-crackers • http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_hacking_and_cracking • http://www.isoftdl.com/2011/01/difference-between-hacker-and-cracker.html • http://deka.web.id/internet/hacker-dan-cracker