History & Impression of Hacking on the Society

Abstract

The hackers have been widespread throughout the IT world. The main categories of Hackers have evolved: the Open Source and Free Software group and the Security Hackers group these both groups are function differently and there concept and method are differ from each other . In this paper we are discussed on some of the more noteworthy groups and individuals of each 'category' of hackers, the effects of hacking on society, as well as conferences and publications that they are responsible for that have contributed to the modern hacking world. Hacking is just like a cancer that has very dangerous effects on the society. Today in this modern world, where measures have been taken to improve the security level in the distributed systems ,hackers have found a way to crack into systems and take away information. In this paper, we will explain you few aspects of hacking, tools and technique used by hackers that has caused of its existence and few techniques through which we can minimize this.