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Hacking - Techniques, Tools and Prevention

As the popularity of Personal computers came to its peak during 'dot com' familiarity so too did the rise of hacking. Famous hackers such as Kevin Mitnick made news in 1990s when Credit Card stealing and fake wire transfers become popular. Hacking is known as a technique for compromising digital devices and networks through unauthorised access for data in a computer system. This name appeared in 1970 which became popular in next decade. Movies namely War Games came up in which main characters set up regarding hacking of computer systems which later became potential national security risk. Later, a group of teenagers cracked the computer systems of major organisations which became 'hacker' in the negative sense as it now known. Even various legislations passed by the Govt. around computer crimes did not stop high profile attacks on organisations and Govt. systems rather gave birth to various types of hacking techniques and hackers. As computer systems and technology rapi