Journal of Research in Computer Science and Engineering ISSN: 2457-0818 (Online)

Authors : G sravan,  Dr Ankita Nigam

Abstract: The explosive growth of the internet has brought many good things such as E-commerce- banking, E-mail, cloud computing, but there is also a dark side such as hacking, backdoors etc. hacking is the first big problem faced by governments, companies, and private citizens around the world, hacking includes reading others e-mail, steal their credit card number from an online shopping site, secretly transmitting secrets to the open internet. An Ethical Hacker can help the people who are suffered by this hackings. This paper describes about ethical hackers, their skills, their attitudes, and how they go about helping their customers find and plug up security holes.

Keywords :- Hacking, e-mail , backdoors.