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Hacking, Social Engineering and Types of Hackers
What is Hacking ? Hacking refers to activities that seek to compromise digital devices, such as computers, smartphones, tablets, and even entire networks. And while hacking might not always be for malicious purposes, nowadays most references to hacking, and hackers, characterize it/them as unlawful activity by cybercriminals—motivated by financial gain, protest, information gathering (spying), and even just for the “fun” of the challenge. What is Social Engineering? Hacking is typically technical in nature (like creating malvertising that deposits malware in a drive-by attack requiring no user interaction)....